A Chinese fugitive has been discovered working as a prison warden a decade after he went on the run to escape assault charges, the Beijing News reported on Thursday.

Wang Zhijia, 37, was accused of attacking his wife with a brick 10 years ago after the pair argued about a domestic issue.

An anonymous donor has left a wad of cash worth $131,000 in a public toilet in Japan, with instructions it be used to help victims of the March earthquake and tsunami, an official said Thursday.

A plastic shopping bag, containing 10 million yen, was found on September 22 in a toilet for disabled people in the city hall of Sakado, a commuter town north of Tokyo, a city official told Agence France Presse.

Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, three eyes, and lots of doubts about his future.

Twelve years after Marty Stevens rescued him from being put to sleep because of his condition, the exotic blue-eyed rag doll cat is not only thriving but has made it into the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records.

Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.

She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government.

A German zoo says Heidi, the cross-eyed opossum who became an unlikely international celebrity, has died.

The Leipzig zoo said Wednesday that Heidi's keepers decided to put the three-and-a-half-year-old animal to sleep after trying unsuccessfully for weeks to treat her for arthritis and other symptoms of old age.

A man who scrubbed his pickup truck in the nude at a U.S. car wash has been sentenced to a year of probation.

Robert E. Bailey pleaded guilty on Monday to open and gross conduct for being naked at Economy Car Wash in North Attleborough on May 31.

A 56-year-old Montreal man looking to shake off a mid-life depression walked around the world in 11 years, returning this week to Canada, looking radiant after realizing a dream.

A bit thinner and with a few more gray hairs, Jean Beliveau was pushing a three-wheel stroller that carried his sleeping bag, clothes and a first aid kit when Agence France Presse caught up with him 290 kilometers (180 miles) west of Montreal.

Less than a month after telling a rock star to pull up his saggy pants, a U.S. airline on Tuesday found itself in another celebrity row -- this time over a same-sex kiss.

Cable TV star Leisha Hailey and partner Camila Grey say they were ordered off a Southwest Airlines flight after they disagreed with a flight attendant who told them to stop smooching on "a family airline."

An exhibition of paintings containing human ashes by controversial Czech artist Roman Tyc has raised eyebrows after opening Tuesday in a gallery in Prague's historic city center.

"When you're six and your mum dies, you see her as a metal urn and know her only from photographs for the rest of your life, you believe there's a way to free her from the can," reads an introduction to the exhibition, written by Tyc.

A Saudi woman was sentenced to 10 lashes for defying a ban on women driving in the conservative kingdom, an activist said on Tuesday, while another woman was arrested in the capital.

Sheima Jastaniah was sentenced on Monday by a court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, where she was caught driving in July, the activist said, requesting anonymity.