A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a Canadian bus passenger in front of horrified travelers four years ago spoke out for the first time Tuesday, saying he believed his victim was an alien.

Vince Weiguang Li, 43, after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was found not guilty of murdering 22-year-old Tim McLean on a Canadian Greyhound bus on July 30, 2008.

France's new first lady, Valerie Trierweiler, Monday said she had been given some precious tips on her new role by Michelle Obama, as she eyed a future as an ambassador for equality.

"What interests me, is the beginning, the children, equal opportunity," she told reporters after a visit to a French school in Chicago, where NATO leaders held a summit.

New French President Francois Hollande was late for a very important date Monday, when he missed the start of a NATO summit and had to sneak into the talks 15 minutes after they started.

Hollande, making his diplomatic debut less than a week after being inaugurated as France's new leader, was delayed by a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of NATO summit in Chicago.

The fire burns and the smoke rises in this violence-torn Nigerian city, but the sweet smell that follows makes clear there is no reason to be afraid -- unless you are vegetarian.

"The people here have high culinary taste," 32-year-old Isa Jaja explained while trimming fat off a slab of beef at his food hut along a road where security forces in trucks regularly prowl, rifles at the ready.

Airline flight attendants are fuming over nightclubs in the South Korean capital that feature sexy waitresses dressed in skimpy copies of cabin crew uniforms, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Outside a subway station in southern Seoul, young women attired like flight attendants handed out leaflets advertising one such "concept" bar, the JoongAng Ilbo daily said on its website.

A car with five off-duty policemen on board crashed into the Malaysian prime minister's official residence, reports and an official said Sunday.

The five sustained mostly minor injuries in the pre-dawn crash Saturday at Prime Minister Najib Razak's residence in the sprawling administrative capital of Putrajaya, the New Straits Times daily and Bernama news agency reported.

Australian marine pilots Monday called for a review of how ships pass by the Great Barrier Reef, warning of the risk of a major environmental disaster on the tourist attraction.

Australian Reef Pilots, a firm with a century of experience in the region, raised its concerns after a Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier broke down near the reef on Friday and drifted disabled for more than a day before it was secured.

People and their pets often end up resembling each other, but image-obsessed Americans are taking that age-old relationship a step further, treating their four-legged friends to everything from spa facials to testicle implants.

In a nation of surgically enhanced human breasts, teeth and skin, perhaps it was just a matter of time before the beauty stakes were raised for pooches and cats.

The solar eclipse that inspired awe on Monday also sent ring-tailed lemurs at a Japanese zoo into a frenzy, as they were fooled into thinking it was nighttime, an official said.

A group of about 20 lemurs at the Japan Monkey Centre in central Aichi prefecture jumped up and down wildly during the annular eclipse, which was witnessed by millions of people across Asia and the United States.

A Sri Lankan woman bit off the penis of her 30-year-old lover during a row on Friday, a doctor said, as police investigated two other incidents.

The man was rushed to a rural hospital in Andapana, 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Colombo, after a quarrel with the 45-year-old female turned violent.