Pizza Hut is promising "free pizza for life" to whoever dares to ask Barack Obama and Mitt Romney the most burning question of the day: sausage or pepperoni?

The fast food chain is angling to get some publicity out of a town hall debate on October 16 between the Democratic president and his Republican challenger at a liberal arts college outside New York.

French President Francois Hollande potentially won the hearts of thousands of future voters on Tuesday by announcing he wants to abolish homework.

Unveiling a new education program, Hollande said school work should "be done at school, rather than at home", to foster educational equality because some students do not have support at home.

Biologists on Tuesday said they had figured out how the New Caledonian crow, a bird famed for using tools, does its party trick.

Corvus moneduloides, a native of France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia, is one of the stars of the avian world.

New Zealand will release commemorative "The Hobbit" coins worth thousands of dollars ahead of next month's premier of director Peter Jackson's latest Tolkien epic.

The coins featuring characters such as Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the wizard will be legal tender in the country, New Zealand Post said, although their face value will be only a fraction of the cost collectors will be expected to pay.

A sumptuous new French restaurant in Sydney said Wednesday it would remove two urinals designed to resemble a woman's lipsticked mouth, apologizing for any offense they have caused.

The Ananas Bar and Brasserie said the bright red-lipped urinals shaped like an open mouth were "a commonly used European design piece from female Dutch artist Meike van Schijndel".

Equatorial Guinea's interior ministry issued a series of recommendations to ensure that Friday's independence day is celebrated in style, banning revellers from wearing flip-flops in the president's native village.

"To ensure the smooth running of the October 12 national holiday, 44th anniversary of our independence, using mobile phones, wearing cropped trousers and flip-flops, carrying knives and drinking alcoholic beverages are banned," Interior Minister Engonga Nguema Onguene said in a statement read out on state radio Monday.

Have you ever wanted to enjoy a live concert without leaving the comfort of your own living room? Now is your chance.

Vienna's venerable Konzerthaus is bringing musicians right into its audience's homes under the title "Rent a musician," to publicise its new contemporary concert series this season.

Two members of rap group Negrescro were arrested after police in their home town of Nice on the French Riviera spotted that the guns they fired in a music video were real, a police source said Monday.

The video released in July, which was shot in the poor Ariane district of the city where the group is from, shows two masked men firing a Kalashnikov and a pump-action shotgun into the air.

Vietnamese authorities have banned Communist Party members in the capital Hanoi from organizing lavish wedding parties, following a public backlash over extravagant nuptials.

The number of guests is limited to 600 for both families and expensive venues such as five-star hotels should be avoided, according to a notice on the Hanoi city's official website seen on Monday.

The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms, authorities said Monday.

About 30 contestants ate the insects during Friday night's contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Miami. The grand prize was a python.