Heir to the British throne Prince Charles had a light-hearted go at presenting the weather on BBC television Thursday, predicting a miserable spate of rain and snow for Scotland.

Looking straight into the camera as he and his wife Camilla tried out the job during a tour of BBC Scotland's studios, Charles, 63, read the bulletin confidently and even added a few of his own personal flourishes.

So you're a teenage girl and you're bewildered by boys. Who better to ask than Don Draper, or at least the actor who plays the 1960s ad man on television's "Mad Men?"

Rookie (www.rookiemag.com), the girls-only website curated by teen fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson, invited Jon Hamm -- looking world-weary in a three-day stubble and red T-shirt -- to appear in its latest "Ask A Grown Man" segment.

Republican Mitt Romney took the White House race into uncharted waters Thursday, suggesting he would like to challenge President Barack Obama to a bit of waterskiing.

"I don't think I'll play the president a round of golf but I'll be happy to take him through a waterski course," the presumptive presidential nominee said on Fox News when asked whether he was as "hip" as the commander-in-chief.

A New Zealand churchgoer became so enraged that the dishes had not been done following a Sunday service that she ripped off part of a fellow parishioner's earlobe, a report said Friday.

The attack occurred during a meeting of church members who have known each other for about 10 years, the Manawatu Standard newspaper said.

Rock icon Morrissey called on Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday, ahead of a Manila concert, to send what the star described as Manila Zoo's long-suffering elephant into retirement.

The British ex-singer of alternative rock group The Smiths said Mali, 37, deserved a reprieve from a lifetime of confinement.

Paris, the City of Lights, is also the city with the most expensive club sandwich in the world, according to a global survey released Wednesday by an online travel service.

Hotels.com said it price-checked club sandwiches at more than 750 hotels in 26 cities in Asia, Europe, North America and South America to help travelers size up the affordability of different national capitals.

Almost 200 years after the French cavalry charge at Waterloo, bulldozers rolled into action Wednesday to spruce up the memorial site of the battle that humbled Napoleon.

Where cannon balls once thundered across fields, construction workers began breaking down walls in a project that will see the demolition of restaurants, stores and parking lots considered eyesores in the rural area south of Brussels.

Not quite priceless but worth a hefty amount: a long riding undergarment once worn by emperor Franz Joseph was snapped up for over 6,000 euros at an auction in Vienna this week.

An imperial collector forked out 6,250 euros ($8,100) for the underwear, worn by the long-ruling Habsburg emperor, whose death in 1916 came two years before the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dorotheum auction house announced Wednesday.

More than a hundred mop-topped musicians have flocked to a London theater in the hope of being cast as Paul, John, George or Ringo in a new Beatles-inspired musical.

A spokesman for the producers of "Let It Be", due to hit London's West End theater district in September, said Wednesday that around a dozen hopefuls were through to a second round after Tuesday's open auditions in London.

Students in central China have resorted to classroom intravenous drips as a study aid to prepare for the nation's notoriously difficult college entrance exams, state press said Tuesday.

Photos showing students at Xiaogang high school in Hubei province hooked up to hanging bottles of amino acids have gone viral on the web, eliciting shocked concern over how far Chinese students will go to get into university.