A 78-year-old Florida woman tried to fly on an international trip to the Philippines from Detroit Metropolitan Airport with almost $41,000 in cash hidden inside her girdle, bra and carry-on bag, federal authorities said.
A complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit said the Clearwater woman was trying to board a flight April 2 to the Philippines with her daughter. She initially said she had $200 in cash but submitted a form declaring she had $1,200, prompting questions.

Stray canines roaming the Indian capital may soon find themselves attending police training school with civic authorities planning to turn the animals into security dogs, reports said Saturday.

Brazilian millionaire Eike Batista, who over the last year lost a sizeable portion of vast wealth, has sold the prized Lamborghini that once adorned his living room, news reports said.
Television station G1 wrote on its website Friday that the businessman tycoon recently sold the white Lamborghini Aventador sports car to a dealership in the town of Goiania, in the center-west region of Brazil.

Using the age-old reasoning of making the punishment fit the crime, police in a sprawling Chinese metropolis are making drivers who inappropriately flash their bright lights suffer the same agony.
In a post on their official account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter, traffic police in the southern city of Shenzhen said that violators were being made to look at bright headlights for five minutes.

Toilets, bedpans and other must-haves for nature's calls from around the world are on display at a museum in Prague that claims to be the largest of its kind.
Rows of toilet paper, bathroom vessels of all types, shapes and sizes and cistern pulls made of china, wood and brass are the stars of the show at this museum of relief in the Czech capital.

"Nobody saw this coming" says Alexander Krupetskov, a young Muscovite who recently opened his high-end cheese shop on a quiet street in the capital's city center.
His "Cheese Sommelier", a small boutique packed with premium European cheeses, has been in business for only two months.

Russia's drastic ban on food imports from Europe has claimed it first victims -- the rather choosy animals at Moscow zoo.
Keepers at the zoo, one of Europe's oldest, have been sent scrambling to adjust the menus for its animals, which rely heavily on Dutch vegetables and Polish apples.

The Swiss Parliament says it has suspended an employee after a naked picture she took of herself at work found its way into the media.
The Parliament said Wednesday that the woman, whom it didn't identify, was suspended with immediate effect "until the facts are cleared up."

Monkey see, monkey do. But when a monkey takes a selfie, who owns the copyright?
A series of self-portraits taken by Indonesian monkeys has sparked a copyright dispute between Wikipedia and a British wildlife photographer, who wasn't amused that the popular images are being used for free.

A young boy visiting the U.S. capital on Thursday caused a commotion at the White House when he squeezed through the fence surrounding the presidential mansion.
