Thailand's Culture Ministry on Monday demanded an explanation from the producer of a talent show which broadcast a female contestant painting with her bare breasts on national television.

"Society has criticized this show and we need to seek an answer," Culture Minister Sukumol Kunplome told Agence France Presse.

A Pakistan police commander has ordered tens of thousands of pot-bellied officers to diet or quit frontline duties, officials said Monday in what one newspaper dubbed the "battle of the bulge".

Habibur Rehman, police chief in Pakistan's most populous province Punjab, has ordered 175,000 personnel not to allow their waistlines to exceed 38 inches (96 cm), spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar told Agence France Presse.

For tattoo artist Horiyoshi III, the skin into which he sinks his ink-infused needle is a canvas for the myths and legends of Japan -- where body art is indelibly linked to the criminal underworld.

The mountains and waves of 18th century art, or fabulous mythical creatures are a far cry from the stylized designs so common in the West that might usually draw disapproval from parents and teachers.

Police have arrested three teenagers in the Indian state of Goa for allegedly digging up a graveyard in an island village and lining up skulls along a main road to scare away "drunkards".

The incident was discovered when stunned residents came across the bizarre scene on Friday morning, and police then found that the graveyard of a local church had been vandalized.

A woman zookeeper died after she was savaged in a wolf enclosure, Swedish public radio said Sunday.

The 30-year-old woman was alone with eight wolves at Kolmarden Zoo, one of the largest in northern Europe, when the incident happened but it was unclear what led up to the deadly mauling, the radio network said.

Austria said Friday that it has reached a compromise with Slovenia over a spat that had threatened to force Vienna's sausage stands to change the name of one of their most popular offerings.

Slovenia wants EU protected status for its "Kranjska klobasa", or Krainer sausage, banning the name for sausages not made in its Kranjska region, known as Krain in German and formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Paris authorities are mulling a plan to extend the Eiffel Tower downwards as above ground building would spoil the French capital's geometry, the head of the landmark's operating company said Friday.

"Paris Council will deliberate on Tuesday or Wednesday this project for an underground building, we need further studies and we're moving forward with the project," deputy mayor in charge of tourism Jean-Bernard Bros told Agence France Presse.

A Scottish local authority has lifted its ban stopping a nine-year-old Scottish girl from photographing her school lunches and posting them on her blog, after the move sparked outrage online.

Six weeks ago, Martha Payne, from Argyll in western Scotland, began taking photos of the uninspiring lunches provided by her school canteen and posting them on her blog, "NeverSeconds".

From political slogans scrawled on the walls to works of street art in run-down neighborhoods, Greece's economic crisis is inspiring graffiti that probe acute social themes ahead of Sunday's elections.

Ghoulish drawings of gas masks, portraits of suffering Greeks and invectives against the International Monetary Fund or Germany now plaster many walls in Athens alongside more fantastical images of monsters and gang-style tags.

An Argentine widow was spending days in the tomb of her husband who died two years ago, having set up a bed, Internet access and even a small cooker next to his coffin, officials told Agence France Presse Thursday.

"Police found Adriana Villareal had carried out some work in the tomb where her husband's coffin was. She had a radio, a computer, Internet, a chair and a small cooker," said local police commissioner Gustavo Braganza.