A New York City man dressed as a zombie for his job at a haunted house is being credited with rescuing a cat that disappeared from his owner's home two years ago.

Jeremy Zelkowitz says he spotted Disaster the cat crossing 42nd Street in Times Square early Saturday.

Uruguay's President Jose Mujica was left red-faced Thursday after disparaging remarks apparently aimed at Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner and her late husband were picked up by an open microphone.

Buenos Aires swiftly responded with an official protest, calling the comments "unacceptable."

"Top Gear" presenter Jeremy Clarkson is pictured near Sibiu city, 300 km northwest of Bucharest, on September 24, 2009. Dutch police were forced to explain why one of their number announced that …more

Dutch police were forced to explain why one of their number announced that a vital section of motorway would be closed for Britain's "Top Gear" television program, in what turned out to be an April Fool's joke.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has told fellow lawmakers that nights of hard drinking with visiting dignitaries formed part of his diplomacy.

Noda, a well-known aficionado of "sake", said he "chugged" down cups of the rice wine with then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and separately with British premier David Cameron, the Yomiuri Shimbun said Thursday.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has told fellow lawmakers that nights of hard drinking with visiting dignitaries formed part of his diplomacy.

Noda, a well-known aficionado of "sake", said he "chugged" down cups of the rice wine with then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and separately with British premier David Cameron, the Yomiuri Shimbun said Thursday.

"Her name was Jeanne.... A brunette, nothing special. But I must find her at any cost."

At 93, Nikolai Vasenin, a former Red Army soldier and Gulag prisoner who fought for the French Resistance in World War II, is searching for the love he says he lost 60 years ago in France.

Police in eastern Indonesia arrested 17 local supporters of France's football team, mistaking their hoisted French flag for a bold separatist statement, police said Wednesday.

The men, illegal gold miners on Pulau Buru in the Muluku Islands chain, raised the French flag in the street ahead of a World Cup qualifier match between France and Spain last week.

Norwegian schools have moved exams that clashed with Justin Bieber's concerts in the country, fearing some fans would rather cut class than miss out on an evening with the Canadian heart throb.

"We find it regrettable, but we preferred to move forward the Norwegian exams to avoid problems," Roar Aasen, the headmaster of an upper secondary school in Aalesund on Norway's west coast, told AFP.

Three thousand miles from his native Lyon, Frenchman Claude Abry is living his dream in the Middle East, where he once cooked for royalty and has now traded his chef's toque for helmets and Harley-Davidsons.

"After my family, I have two loves in life: cooking and riding motorcycles," Abry, 43, told Agence France Presse at his Harley dealership outside the Jordanian capital, Amman -- a challenging project in a country where bikes were banned for more than two decades for reasons of "public safety".

A Japanese woman who lived with her brother's mummified body for years tried to dispose of his corpse with household rubbish when she finally realized he was dead, police and reports said Wednesday.

The woman, 49, said she discovered the desiccated cadaver of Masao Tadano as she and another sister tried to move house last November, a police officer told Agence France Presse.