New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is proving again he doesn't mind a little humiliation.

The Republican on Tuesday posted on his Facebook page a video showing two of his kids dumping a bucket of ice water on his head.

Hollywood star Mickey Rourke became the latest actor to offer his praise to Russian President Vladimir Putin when he sported a T-shirt emblazoned with the leader's face at a publicity event on Monday.

"I like this guy," said the 61-year-old star of "Iron Man 2" and "Nine And A Half Weeks", pointing to his new grey t-shirt featuring Putin in a navy cap and surrounded by flowers.

Note to romance-struck couples strolling in Paris, the eternal city of love: please consider immortalizing your passion with a "selfie" rather than lashing a padlock to a city bridge.

That was the message issued on Monday by City Hall authorities, desperately trying to save its bridges, including the world-famous Pont des Arts, from damage from the thousands of padlocks left there by lovers to pledge their eternal devotion.

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.