A French tourist was arrested Sunday for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge, apparently to take photos, police said, in the latest such incident at the iconic New York landmark.

The man, identified as Yonathan Souid, 23, from Esnandes in southwestern France, faces charges of reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing.

What some have called the worst video game ever made has fetched thousands of dollars for a New Mexico city.

An old "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" game cartridge drew the highest bid among 100 Atari games auctioned on eBay by Alamogordo officials.

A python smuggled from Vietnam to Switzerland as a baby has been handed to a Swiss zoo after outgrowing the private home it has lived in for two decades.

The nonvenomous reptile, which 20 years ago fit inside the trouser leg of a Swiss boy returning home from a holiday with his mother in Vietnam, today measures five meters (16 feet) and weighs 80 kilos (180 pounds), according to the Garenne zoo in western Switzerland.

Just call me Tony: Australia's prime minister tried to get his bickering G20 colleagues to loosen up at summit talks in the laid-back city of Brisbane on Saturday before hosting a lunch of prawns and pavlova in the baking heat.

The conservative Australian leader, who held a private leaders-only retreat ahead of formal talks that will focus on economic growth, energy security and tax reform, called for the high-powered meeting to be open and friendly.

Most of the world's powerhouse leaders arriving in Brisbane for the G20 summit headed in motorcades to relax at their luxury hotels, but not Angela Merkel who opted for the pub.

The German Chancellor -- leader of one of the world's biggest beer-producing nations -- was determined to see some of the Queensland capital before high-powered weekend talks on issues such as economic growth and tax evasion.

A woman and her daughter both gave birth at the same hospital on the same day.

Heather Penticoff and her daughter Destinee Martin each found out they were pregnant on the same day. They had the same due dates and, for separate medical reasons, doctors at Lee Memorial Hospital in Florida decided to induce both of them Tuesday.

A 91-year-old Polish woman surprised morgue workers when she started moving, 11 hours after being declared dead at home, public television reported Thursday.

Janina Kolkiewicz woke up inside a body bag in a cold chamber at the morgue in eastern Poland last Thursday, according to the TVP public broadcaster.

Holy cow! A Swiss university has sparked ire by suggesting that cowbells -- as emblematic of the Alpine country as chocolates, watches and Heidi -- should be banned.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich said the traditionally heavy bells had high decibel levels and could cause deafness.

A tiger remained on the loose near Paris early Friday after firefighters and police called off the search for the night following a fruitless all-day hunt, with worried residents told to stay indoors.

A local woman sounded the alarm the morning of the previous day after spotting the fearsome animal in a supermarket car park in the town of Montevrain -- just a stone's throw from Disneyland Paris.

The world's tallest and shortest men came face to shin on Thursday to celebrate the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day, as people across the globe set several bonkers new benchmarks.

Turkey's Sultan Kosen, who stands 2.51 meters (eight feet, nine inches) tall, met with Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal, who measures just 55 centimeters (21 and a half inches).