A Chinese official was found to have kept more than 100 million yuan ($16 million) in cash at his home, in the country's latest apparent corruption scandal, a report said Thursday.

Police deployed 16 money-counting machines to count the stash held by Wei Pengyuan, whose job involved approving the construction of power stations, respected financial media outlet Caixin reported.

In 1945, a letter was addressed to a western Michigan couple and mailed from a sergeant at an Army base in New York State.

It apparently never reached "Mr. and Mrs. Sensabaugh" on Washington Avenue in Muskegon and — nearly 70 years later — postal officials are hoping to find relatives to deliver the letter to, The Muskegon Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/1jI2ez1 ) Wednesday.

Thailand's political lexicon has a new term: the Holy Traffic Cone.

The term went viral this week after a series of vicious attacks on motorists who moved traffic cones that anti-government protesters had arbitrarily placed near rally sites.

A southeastern Pennsylvania man charged with breaking into a neighbor's house says he was only borrowing eggs to make breakfast.

The Bucks County Courier Times (http://bit.ly/1juFcqn) says Middletown police contend Christopher King didn't have an omelette on his mind when he climbed through the window Tuesday morning.

Expectations were already muted, but England's chances at the World Cup have now been written off -- by the government.

An assessment by the Home Office about extending pub opening hours during the tournament came to the conclusion on Tuesday that Roy Hodgson's team could fail to even reach the knockout phase in Brazil.

An Italian businessman on Tuesday won a state auction to lease a picturesque island in the Venice lagoon but a community group whose bid failed said it hoped to persuade the government to turn down his offer.

Luigi Brugnaro, who owns an employment agency, came first against the Poveglia Association with an offer of 513,000 euros ($704,000) against the local community group's offer of 160,000 euros for the 99-year lease.

South Korea's defense ministry said Wednesday that a suspected crashed drone spotted by a walker was a false alarm -- it was actually the door of a portable toilet.

A passer-by had reported seeing what he thought was the wreckage of a drone caught among rocks and trees in a fenced off military area, while walking on a hillside in southern Seoul.

Prime Minister David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson took time out from the campaign trail on Monday to help a woman who had fallen sick by the roadside.

Popular mayor Johnson is widely believed to covet the job of his old schoolmate Cameron, but the pair joined forces to look after the woman who had apparently fallen ill on a street in Harrow, north west London.

Police say a 31-year-old man has been arrested after he drove to a Louisiana state police headquarters while drunk to file an accident report.

Online booking records indicate Patrick Ruffner of Gonzales was in the East Baton Rouge Parish jail Monday with bond set at $1,000.

An overly-handsome waiter, a snoring girlfriend and the sea being too blue are among some of the bizarre complaints made to hotel staff, according to a survey published Monday.

Travel search engine Skyscanner quizzed 400 international hotel workers to draw up a list of the top ten unusual grumbles and diva-like demands.