The shape of a man's face can help predict his sporting acumen, according to a study on Wednesday that found Japanese baseball players whose faces were relatively broad rather than long were most likely to hit a home run.

University of London psychologists measured the facial width-to-height ratio, or fWHR, of 104 batters in Japan's professional Central League Pennant who played in the 2011 and 2012 seasons.

U.S. President Barack Obama paid homage on Tuesday to Memphis soul and the role the music style played in advancing civil rights at a star-studded White House concert celebrating the genre.

"In the sixties and seventies, Memphis knew its share of division and discord and injustice," Obama recalled. It was in the Tennessee city in 1968 that civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

A Nepalese presenter will attempt to set the world record for the longest television talk show this week by staying on air for 60 hours, organizers said Tuesday.

Rabi Lamichhane, a 36-year-old based in the U.S., has returned to Kathmandu to stage the "Lord Buddha Was Born in Nepal" program, and try to capture the Guinness world record.

These thieves might really have sticky fingers.

Police said Monday an unknown number of culprits made off with 5 metric tons (5.5 tons) of Nutella chocolate-hazelnut spread from a parked trailer in the central German town of Bad Hersfeld over the weekend.

A French court has ordered a psychiatrist to pay one of his patients 10,000 euros ($13,000) in damages for seducing her as she sought counselling to save her marriage, sources close to the case said Monday.

The Bordeaux appeals court said the 65-year-old psychiatrist had abused his position as a practitioner, taking advantage of the patient's "fragile and frustrated" emotional state when they became lovers in the summer of 2003.

Three followers of an Indian guru committed suicide Monday by jumping on a burning wood pyre, saying they wanted to "join" their leader who killed himself over a month ago, police said.

The three devotees, aged 16, 30 and 50, lived at the Chouli monastery near Badar in southern India dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva, one of the most important gods in the Hindu pantheon, known as the destroyer of evil.

A South African man in the weekend successfully flew across the sea from Nelson Mandela's apartheid island prison using helium-filled giant party balloons.

The six-kilometer (3.7-mile) crossing, to raise funds for a children's hospital named after the country's former president, was the first stunt of its kind from the historical site.

A Greek e-ticket ad will be withdrawn from television after managing to insult both the country's truckers and its gay community, top-selling Ta Nea daily said on Saturday

A Greek e-ticket ad will be withdrawn from television after managing to insult both the country's truckers and its gay community, top-selling Ta Nea daily said on Saturday.

Elevators in Singapore public-housing blocks are still sometimes being used as toilets, infuriating residents despite a long government campaign to eradicate the dirty habit, a report said Sunday.

A suburban town council has put up notices showing a bare-bottomed woman apparently urinating in a lift and a man smoking in another, the Sunday Times newspaper said.

An Italian couple in their sixties, overwhelmed by crushing financial difficulties and unable to pay their rent, committed suicide by hanging, police told local media on Friday.

Their bodies of Romeo Dionsi, 62, and Anna Sopranzi, 68, were discovered by their neighborliness on Friday morning at their home in Civitanova, a small village in the central Marche region on the Adriatic Sea.