A Taiwanese television commercial featuring a Steve Jobs look-alike angel complete with white wings and a halo has caused uproar, with critics saying it is disrespectful towards Apple's late founder.

The commercial shows well-known local comedian A-Ken in blue jeans and a black turtleneck praising the virtues of a tablet from Taiwan-based Action Electronics that runs on Google's Android operating system.

With the official opening of the famed Rio carnival less than two weeks away, business is booming at Brazil's oldest mask factory, with designs of gorillas, clowns and witches the most coveted.

This year, politicians are out, said Olga Gibert, owner of the Condal plant, located in Sao Goncalo, on the other side of Rio de Janeiro bay.

A baby born in a Croatian village cut off by a blizzard is to be called "Snow-White", the Sata internet news site reported Sunday.

Her mother, Marta Glavota, 30, called emergency services for help to deliver the baby, but snow, which has been falling since Thursday, closed off all access to her southern village of Vitusa.

You're not allowed to light a cigarette in New York bars, but there's nothing to stop a bartender from setting your cocktail on fire with an 815 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit) poker.

In fact, the red hot rod is just the tip of the mad scientist treatment meted out to drinks at Booker & Dax, a new Manhattan drinking hole that's taking cocktail trends to extremes.

A 100-year-old British Indian man who claims to be the world's oldest marathoner was all smiles after completing a 10-kilometre run at the Hong Kong marathon on Sunday.

Born in 1911 and affectionately nicknamed the "Turbaned Torpedo", Fauja Singh finished the race in just over one hour and 34 minutes, organizers told Agence France Presse, raising HK$200,000 ($25,800) for the charity Seeing Is Believing.

Stressed out by flying?

Travelers in Northern California can now find their inner calm in the Yoga Room at San Francisco International Airport.

An Italian man threw his 16-month-old son off a bridge into the river in Rome in a fit of rage following a row with his partner over custody, Italian media reported.

The man, 26, admitted to police that he had thrown his son into the freezing waters of the Tevere river after arguing with the infant's mother.

Champis the bunny doesn't only hop — he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.

The 5-year-old pet rabbit from the small village of Kal in northern Sweden shot to online fame last week, having garnered more than 700,000 YouTube hits so far, after a clip of his sheep herding skills surfaced on a blog.

Vermont's police force was oink-credibly embarrassed when they realized that the emblem on their squad cars had been doctored to show a pig.

Long an insulting term to refer to police, a pig is hardly the symbol that uniformed officers would like to display.

Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is brushing aside a cake-in-the-face attack, saying in a Facebook posting that at least he didn't go hungry at an event in Berlin.

Guttenberg, who was a one-time star in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, resigned last March after it emerged he copied large parts of his doctoral thesis without attribution.