An Indian answer to Craigslist is drawing millions of monthly visitors to its website, exchanging everything from used iPads to cows, in a country where second-hand goods have traditionally been sniffed at.

Quikr, a start-up launched in 2008, has become the leading online classifieds portal in India, where the e-retail market is exploding thanks to a vast young population with growing Internet access.

Domino's pizza manager Andy Ritchie has taken a lot of orders, but never one quite like this: to feed an entire plane full of hungry, delayed passengers, stuck on the tarmac.

It was about 10:30 pm on Monday when the pilot of the Frontier Airlines flight called in, said Ritchie, manager at the pizza chain in the western U.S. city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Britain's only female giant panda, housed at Edinburgh Zoo, could give birth to a cub shortly before Scotland's independence referendum in September, officials said Tuesday.

Tian Tian, whose name means Sweetie, has conceived following artificial insemination and zookeepers are now waiting with bated breath to see if she is actually pregnant. 

India's Bihar state has sacked 1,100 school teachers in the last five years for faking their own education qualifications, an official said Tuesday.

Bihar's government has launched an investigation into the eastern state's primary and secondary teachers to check the authenticity of their degrees, the official said.

Boeing is deciding what to do with six newly manufactured commercial airplane bodies that fell off a train in a derailment in western Montana, including three that slid down a steep riverbank, a company spokeswoman said Monday.

Experts from Boeing Co. and Spirit AeroSystems, which built the fuselages, are at the site of Thursday's derailment on the Clark Fork River about 50 miles west of Missoula, spokeswoman Dina Weiss said in a statement.

The transformative power of online crowd funding is being poured into a bowl or two of potato salad

The transformative power of online crowd funding is being poured into a bowl or two of potato salad.

More than 200 songwriters have entered a contest to change Switzerland's national anthem, organizers who want to bin the less than rousing current version said on Monday.

Lukas Niederberger, director of the Swiss Society for Public Good, said that 215 entries had submitted to replace "The Swiss Psalm", which critics liken to a weather forecast crossed with a religious hymn, given its repeated references to God and Alpine vistas.

Greek police have been left baffled by the mysterious appearance of a two-metre long crocodile spotted lounging near an artificial dam on the tourist island of Crete.

"Clearly crocodiles do not occur naturally here, so the owner probably wanted to get rid of it," a local police official told AFP Sunday. 

A small town midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the Pacific Coast Highway has been sold for an undisclosed price.

The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/VwBwR3) the buyers plan to restore the one-block, 2.5-acre town of Harmony.

Germany will have to contend with black magic as well Brazil's Selecao in Tuesday's World Cup semi-final as a voodoo priest plans to curse die Mannschaft.

Brazil will be without injured superstar Neymar in Belo Horizonte, but black magic enthusiast Helio Sillman from Rio de Janeiro says his curse will hinder Joachim Loew's team in the semi-final.