A Finnish couple has added to their victories by taking first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Maine's Sunday River ski resort.

Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen traveled from Helsinki, Finland — where they won the World Wife Carrying Championship — for Saturday's contest. The Sun Journal reports that the couple finished with a time of 52.58 seconds on a course that includes hurdles, sand traps and a water hole.

A 14-year-old Australian girl was Monday charged with attempted murder after she allegedly poisoned two other children, reportedly with chocolate brownies tainted with a household substance.

Queensland state police said the girl had been charged after allegedly giving two boys, aged 12 and 13, food poisoned with a substance "generally found in the home" in the Brisbane suburb of Richlands on Sunday.

Belize, a tropical tourist paradise, is developing a dark side and turning into a transit point for the trafficking of drugs bound for the United States.

This tiny Central American state, while not a producer of narcotics, has a lot of coastline and not a lot of authorities -- and is strategically situated between Mexico and Guatemala -- making it susceptible to smugglers, experts and officials say.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has set up his own Twitter account, despite once saying that he would avoid the website, and amassed nearly 80,000 followers within a day.

Under the handle @David_Cameron, the Conservative leader sent out his first tweet on Saturday night on the eve of his party's annual conference in the central English city of Birmingham.

The 86-year-old founder of Swedish furniture giant Ikea revealed he has no plans to retire and rejected any idea of the company going public in an interview published in Switzerland.

"The company will never go to the market," Ingvar Kamprad told the latest edition of Swiss business magazine Bilanz. "We want to keep strict self-financing."

Asia is driving global sales of men's skin care products, with Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans the most avid users in the region, a report on male grooming trends showed Friday.

Consumer research group Euromonitor International said the Asia-Pacific accounted for nearly 60 percent of worldwide sales of men's skin care products, a fast-growing section of a $33 billion male grooming industry.

It took just milliseconds for the conspiracy theories to surface.

Moments after the U.S. Labor Department announced that the U.S. jobless rate had fallen sharply to 7.8 percent -- a very favorable number for President Barack Obama -- the financial website Zerohedge tweeted: "Total data manipulation. Such a farce."

A study arousing interest online Friday found that checking Facebook or Twitter is more alluring than sex for those immersed in Internet Age lifestyles.

The week-long poll conducted in Germany by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business classified checking social network tweets, pictures, comments and other posts as stronger than sex and cigarettes in terms of temptation.

Malaysia's anti-graft body is investigating the wedding of a top official's son -- attended by around 130,000 people -- after opposition politicians questioned the celebration's funding.

The wedding on Sunday of Ridhwan Ali, 26, eldest son of Ali Rustam, chief minister of the southern state of Malacca, reportedly lasted eight hours and made it into the Malaysia Book of Records for its massive turnout.

Anyone relying on their nose to guide them to a toilet at Quebec's La Providence golf course won't find one -- that's because its outhouse is odorless.

Beneath a tidy wooden latrine on the grounds is an army of earthworms that churn decaying organic materials into compost.