Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday gifted visiting Argentine leader Cristina Kirchner a picture that he painted featuring her late husband and political predecessor Nestor.

Chavez gave her the painting as he inaugurated the Nestor Kirchner Hall at the Miraflores presidential palace.

A man who tried to hold up a bank that closed 17 years ago has been jailed for seven years, a court said, in what the Bild daily called Friday the case of "Germany's dumbest bank robber".

The regional court in the western city of Osnabrueck said the defendant, identified only as 57-year-old Siegfried K., arrived at the bank branch, now equipped only with cash machines, with a toy gun in May.

For anyone who needed official word, a new study confirms that many of us - and the majority of young adults - go online for no good reason at all.

The report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that on any given day, 53 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds go online just to have fun or pass time.

As world leaders held frenzied talks to try to save the crisis-hit Eurozone in the south of France earlier this month, the fate of two giant pandas destined for a French zoo hung in the balance.

Negotiations had been conducted at the highest level of government in Beijing and Paris, and the deal was to have been announced at the G20 summit in the French resort of Cannes, before it was delayed by more pressing matters.

South Korean police said Thursday that they have arrested six crematory workers on suspicion of stealing and selling melted gold teeth from cremated bodies.

Police said in a statement that workers at five crematoriums were suspected of collecting melted gold teeth from the bottom of cremation braziers to sell.

A bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat.

Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Potter says the 46-year-old Utah man was duck hunting with a friend when he climbed out of the boat to move decoys.

An Indian snake-charmer released dozens of snakes in a government tax office to protest against officials who had not responded to his complaints about an application for land.

Local bureaucrats leapt onto their desks or ran out of the building in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh when Hakkul, who uses only one name, let his snakes -- including some poisonous cobras -- out of three bags on Tuesday.

Social networking websites were buzzing Wednesday with supportive and critical comments about a video showing Lebanese cage fighter Mohammed Ali victoriously brandishing a Hizbullah flag after delivering the knockout punch to his foe in the 11th Cage Fighting Championship held in the U.S.

Ali shouted “Ya Hussein (O Hussein)”, invoking the blessings of 7th century Shiite saint, Imam Hussein, before serving the final blow.

From the pencil-thin Errol Flynn version to the coiffed homage to Ming the Merciless, thousands of normally clean-shaven men across the world have been embracing the lost art of moustaches this month.

Almost 850,000 men from London to Singapore shaved carefully around their top lip during November as part of a global campaign to raise awareness and cash for men's cancers, almost double last year's registrations.

Oneal Ron Morris claimed to be a plastic surgeon and allegedly offered low-cost household operations to sculpt sexy buttocks, fuller cheeks and luscious lips for clients in the U.S. state of Florida.

Using fake credentials, Morris is accused of using a dangerous mix of cement, an aerosol for flat tires and Super Glue to get results