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.

The hunt for the perfect Christmas tree may soon become a lot easier: just pick a nice clone.

That's what German scientists are now working on: They are searching a way to ensure that the sensitive saplings of the popular Nordmann fir species grow into impressive specimens.

An Argentine judge has blocked planned nuptials between a 22-year-old woman and her twin sister's convicted killer Friday after a formal complaint by her mother.

Edith Casas insists that Victor Cingolani did not murder her sister Johana Casas, a fashion model. He is serving a 13-year prison sentence in southern Santa Cruz province for her murder in 2010.

An Argentine woman plans to marry the convicted killer of her twin sister.

Victor Cingolani is serving a 13-year sentence for murdering girlfriend Johana Casas, a fashion model, in August 2010 but insists he is innocent and plans to marry her twin on Friday in his prison in Santa Cruz province.

Britain's House of Lords has taken foie gras off the menu after animal rights activists complained it was being served in its restaurants, a spokesman for the upper house of parliament said Thursday.

Catering chiefs in the Lords, which broke up for Christmas on Wednesday, have decided not to serve the delicacy when peers return in the new year, the Lords spokesman said.