German Chancellor Angela Merkel joked ahead of a crunch summit on the Eurozone debt crisis Wednesday that she loved Greeks "when they act reasonably".

Asked at an event marking 50 years since Germany invited Turks as "guest workers" to fill a yawning labor market gap, Merkel was asked if she didn't long for the days when integration of Turks was a major worry on her political agenda.

Doctors in Canada saw a divine face in the testes of a man admitted to a hospital with severe pain and an inflamed scrotum, a scientific journal article said Wednesday.

Or at least, that is one possible explanation.

So many rats have drowned in Cambodia's worst flooding in over a decade that the cross-border trade in the rodent's meat has plummeted, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday.

"Each year 17 tons (about 37,000 pounds) of rats are exported to Vietnam. This year there is a shortage of rats for export because the rats have died in the floods," he said, citing reports from officials at the southern Chrey Thom border checkpoint.

Several women in Nabatiyeh caught a thief on Wednesday after he robbed one of their neighbors, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said that a 29-year-old Syrian entered a woman’s house in Ain al-Jamal neighborhood in Zebdine and asked her for food.

Two hyenas escaped from a South African wildlife park Wednesday by chewing through an electric fence during a power outage, but were recaptured within half an hour, the park said.

"The power went off... and the hyenas -- who will chew through wire and even iron bars -- managed to escape," said Earl Smith, general manager of the Lion Park, located just outside Johannesburg.

After vowing a single-minded focus on jobs, President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the House of Representatives called a vote late Tuesday to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as the national motto.

Lawmakers voted 396-9 in favor of a symbolic resolution, crafted by Republican Representative Randy Forbes and sure to appeal to the party's religious conservative base with the November 2012 elections on the horizon.

A bloodied body caused a fright in an Austrian motorway rest area on Tuesday morning, before police raised it again from the dead.

Passers-by alerted the authorities at dawn that a body covered in blood lay in a rest area off the Tauern motorway near Salzburg.

A pair of ample bloomers once owned by Britain's Queen Victoria sold for more than £9,000 ($14,330, 10,500 euros) at an Edinburgh auction on Tuesday, more than three times the original estimate.

An anonymous buyer paid £9,375 for the white silk undergarments during an auction of items from London's Old Battersea House -- the London home of the Forbes family, the American publishing dynasty.

It will be the world's most literary mortuary.

Ten leading crime writers are competing for the honor of having a morgue named after them.

Police officers in Oregon say a domestic disturbance suspect more or less fell into their hands — through the ceiling.

Portland police were called Monday to a home to deal with an intoxicated man reported as threatening relatives. Lt. Robert King says they found him barricaded in the attic and determined he wasn't a threat, so they began to leave with the intention of following up later.