U.S. Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is going back to school: the Fed said Thursday he will lead a series of university classes on the U.S. central bank in Washington in March.

Bernanke, an economics professor at Princeton before he became Fed chairman in February 2006, will lead four classes on "The Federal Reserve and its Role in Today's Economy" with business school undergraduates at George Washington University.

A video posted on YouTube Wednesday appeared to show the amazing voyage of a Lego man sent into space on a homemade spacecraft by two Toronto students.

Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut 24 kilometers (15 miles) into the stratosphere, reports said.

Hong Kong suspended its popular cable car on Thursday after a malfunction left hundreds of tourists dangling in icy weather during the Chinese New Year holiday.

Around 800 passengers were left hanging in the air in temperatures below three degrees Celsius (37 degrees Fahrenheit) after the cable car broke down Wednesday for the fourth time in six weeks, an official said.

California police have arrested two men suspected of stealing a vintage Mercedes belonging to U.S. actor John Travolta and recovered the car -- but it was in pieces, a spokesman said.

The 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280SL was stolen last September after the "Grease" and "Pulp Fiction" star left it for only a few minutes on a Santa Monica street, while he went to visit a Jaguar dealership.

Police in Thailand said Wednesday that they had apprehended a thief with more than a thousand pairs of women's underwear in the trunk of his car.

Police also found more than ten thousand pairs at the house of the 48-year-old Thai suspect, who was arrested late Tuesday with an accomplice after breaking into a building in Bangkok's Chinatown.

Britons are more tolerant of extramarital affairs and drink-driving than they were a decade ago but more likely to condemn people cheating on welfare benefits, research showed Wednesday.

The study from the University of Essex, which questioned more than 2,000 adults about whether a range of activities could ever be justified, concluded that British people are less honest than they were 10 years ago.

Two pandas gifted to Edinburgh zoo by China received the ultimate Scottish honor on Tuesday when a special tartan designed for them was unveiled.

Yang Guang and Tian Tian have already attracted thousands of visitors to the zoo since they arrived on December 4 under a deal agreed after five years of high-level political and diplomatic negotiations.

Shakespeare asked if he should compare his lover "to a summer's day." A New York zoo suggests cockroaches instead.

Ahead of Valentine's Day next month the Bronx Zoo wants New Yorkers to pay $10 for the right to give their sweetheart's name -- or perhaps that of an ex -- to one of its Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

Authorities in Uzbekistan are, apparently, unwilling to give love a chance.

The Russian news agency RIA-Novosti cited several local media in the Central Asian nation reporting Tuesday that Uzbekistan has canceled concerts and other events for Valentine's Day. Instead, residents in the capital of Tashkent can enjoy readings of poems by Mughal emperor Babur, who died in the 16th century.

In-your-face drivers, unsmiling pedestrians and more than eight million people in a rush: New York has been named America's rudest city.

The January issue of Travel and Leisure magazine gave the Big Apple the honor, saying readers voted America's most populous city at the head of a list of 20.