A drunken British man was arrested Tuesday after driving a stolen car on an Amsterdam airport runway "for a few minutes", police said.

The unnamed passenger headed home for Christmas had pushed an emergency exit button at one of Schiphol airport's gates, stumbled onto the tarmac and stole a car belonging to an airport contractor, police spokesman Dennis Muller told Agence France Presse.

An "irresistible" Iowa dental assistant fired for threatening her boss's marriage -- even though she turned away his advances -- has lost her discrimination lawsuit.

Melissa Nelson, who is married with children, had worked for James Knight for 10 years before his wife complained about his infatuation with her.

A small Japanese town devastated by last year's quake-sparked tsunami will receive a huge Christmas present after a ship arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday carrying a six-ton statue destined for the community.

The giant present crossed the ocean from Chile which had pledged to supply a new statue -- modeled on the mysterious carvings at Easter Island -- to Minami Sanriku's tiny fishing community after the town's original was destroyed in last year's quake-sparked tsunami disaster.

Santa Claus is coming to town -- and the organization responsible for monitoring North American airspace is helping your kids track him as he completes his whirlwind journey around the globe.

The Santa tracker set up by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a US-Canada joint operation, said that at 1515 GMT, Santa and his overworked reindeer had just passed over the Philippines' capital Manila.

South Korea's "battle of the singles" -- a highly-anticipated mass dating event organised on Facebook -- fizzled out Monday, with thousands of lovelorn men at the venue but few women in sight.

The event was triggered last month after two young men jokingly floated the idea on the social networking site and eventually prompted more than 36,000 Facebook users to sign up.

Two South Africans have been arrested for "borrowing" a corpse from a funeral parlor in order to complete an elaborate life insurance scam, police said Monday.

After a tip-off police arrested a 35-year-old woman and a 42-year-old funeral parlor owner as they tried to pick up a body for burial.

Republican Senator Michael Crapo of Idaho has been arrested in Virginia for drunk driving, police said Sunday.

Police officials said a vehicle driven by Crapo was stopped in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, early Sunday after he had run a red light.

A Ukrainian national took her clothes off on Saturday at Rafik Hariri International Airport to protest the smoking ban, media reports said.

The woman was swiftly detained by airport security for questioning.

A 3-year-old Australian boy was lucky to escape uninjured after a collection of eggs he found in his yard hatched into a slithering tangle of deadly snakes.

Reptile specialist Trish Prendergast said Friday that young wildlife enthusiast Kyle Cummings could have been killed if he had handled the eastern brown snakes — the world's most venomous species on land after Australia's inland taipan.

It's a real life Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

Animal rescue officials in South Africa say they found a toad from China hidden inside a porcelain candlestick.