A prominent Montenegro human rights activist said Thursday she had been fined 550 euros ($710) for kissing an on-duty policeman during a protest.

In a stand-off with police during an anti-government protest in the tiny Adriatic republic last year Vanja Calovic took the policeman by surprise and kissed him in an effort to defuse the tension.

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his ascent of Mount Everest, his website said, in a bid to become the oldest man to reach the roof of the world.

In a voice message recorded on his website, Yuichiro Miura said the expedition was setting off Thursday for a climb that was expected to take a little over a week.

When Dexter the cocker spaniel tore a ligament in his hind leg a few weeks ago, he didn't suffer in silence. Instead, his owner blogged about.

"The vet told me my dog needed surgery, and I thought, 'You know, there's got to be something else'," said Carol Bryant, who writes a "canine-centric online magazine" called A Fidose of Reality.

A taxi driver who endured a six-month lawsuit after overcharging a passenger by six U.S. cents has finally had his name cleared by a Hong Kong court.

Tam Hoi-Chi walked free after his case was thrown out Thursday but was left questioning the city's justice system.

Junk-food starved Gazans can now order Kentucky Fried Chicken to go thanks to a new smuggling service which brings takeout from Egypt via a network of underground tunnels.

It's not exactly "fast" -- taking several hours to arrive, with the Palestinian delivery company behind it charging hefty prices to cover the cost of fuel and transport.

The head of Mexico's consumer protection agency was fired Wednesday after a scandal erupted over his daughter's bid to close a restaurant that denied her the table she wanted.

President Enrique Pena Nieto sacked Humberto Benitez, chief of the Federal Consumer Prosecutor's Office (Profeco), because the case had "damaged the image and prestige of the institution," said Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong.

British embassies were asked if they could silence a cockerel and order an unfit husband to shape up, among other "bizarre" requests for help in the last 12 months, the Foreign Office said Thursday.

A man asked consular staff in Rome to translate a phrase for a tattoo he wanted, while another man asked the Stockholm embassy if they could check out the credentials of a woman he met online.

What could be a World War II era recipe for Coca-Cola's secret formula found a buyer Wednesday on eBay -- a 15-year-old who now has three days to come up with $15 million to pay for it.

Georgia antiques dealer Cliff Kluge listed the yellowing typewritten document -- found among papers at a Tennessee estate sale -- with an opening bid of $5 million and a buy-it-now price of $15 million as a publicity stunt.

A coin toss has decided the lucky winner of mayor for a small Philippine town, after rival candidates were tied at the end the vote count, an election official said Thursday.

The dramatic conclusion to the contest for San Teodoro, a farming town of about 16,000 people in the central Philippines, took place in the local election office, with the politicians tossing the coin to decide their fate.

Not only is "prostitution" a tagged skill you can select on LinkedIn*, there are actually escorts who advertise their services on the professional networking site. Now LinkedIn is making sure everyone knows that the practice is not OK.

LinkedIn just changed its privacy policy and user agreement and now explicitly bans escorts from using the site to get clients. The new user agreement states that you must not: "Create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution" even if prostitution is legal where you live.