A court in France has ordered a man to pay 10,000 Euros ($13,300) in damages to his long-frustrated ex-wife after he failed in his marriage "duties" by withholding sex from her for years.

In the May ruling, published on Tuesday in the Gazette du Palais judicial review, an appeals court in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence upheld an earlier decision to award the damages for "absence of sexual relations".

Can there be no trust between a kidnapper and his hostages?

A man who held a Kansas couple hostage in their home while fleeing from authorities is suing them, claiming that they broke an oral contract made when he promised them money in exchange for hiding him from police. The couple has asked a judge to dismiss the suit.

Japanese police said Tuesday they will be taking on two new recruits -- a pair of toy poodles.

Two-year-old Fuga and one-year-old Karin have passed tests to become police canines for Tottori Prefecture Police, said a spokesman.

An Atlanta businesswoman claimed she had a 13-year affair with Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, whose campaign has already been hurt by a rash of sexual harassment allegations.

Cain, a former pizza company executive who has faded back in the pack of Republicans seeking to take on President Barack Obama in November 2012, denied the allegations preemptively, shortly before the news broke.

A 64-year-old Japanese man in a blond wig robbed a Tokyo cake shop of nearly $10,000 before being brought down by store staff armed with laundry poles.

The jobless man used a survival knife to force an 18-year-old member of staff to hand over the cash, Jiji Press said Monday.

Iran has banned a popular computer game, "Battlefield 3", depicting U.S. armor and aircraft launching an assault on Tehran, an Iranian IT magazine reported.

"All computer stores are prohibited from selling this illegal game," an unnamed deputy with the security and intelligence division of Iran's police said in a statement carried by the Asr-e Ertebat weekly.

South Korea's president has turned down the thermostat in his office and donned warmer underwear to save energy, he said Monday, urging fellow citizens to do the same to avoid a supply shortage.

The warmer underwear was initially uncomfortable, Lee Myung-Bak disclosed in a fortnightly radio address. "But after a while, I got used to it, and now I am very warm and comfortable wearing it," he said.

A hospital in Berlin announced Friday the birth of a super-size baby boy, weighing in at six kilograms (13.2 pounds), whose 40-year-old experienced mother had a natural birth for her 14th child.

"According to our research, there has never been a child of such heavy weight born without a (caesarean) operation in Germany," said Dr Wolfgang Henrich, head of the neo-natal unit at the hospital, in a statement.

Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers will have a special treat waiting for him in orbit when he arrives in space next month: five kilograms of Amsterdam's finest cheese, its maker said Saturday.

The 53-year-old Kuipers is due to blast off on board a Soyuz rocket on December 21 with two other astronauts for a five-month-mission on board the International Space Station.

Nearly 10,000 people dressed as zombies marched in Mexico's capital Saturday for a "Zombie Walk," breaking a Guinness record for the largest gathering of undead, organizers said.

The more than 9,600 participants gathered at Mexico City's Monument to the Revolution, with blood on their faces and burnt or torn clothing, before marching silently to Zocalo square.