Sri Lankan police have arrested an astrologer after his prediction that President Maithripala Sirisena would die last week proved to be wide of the mark.

A Nigerian man who was once ordered by an Islamic court to divorce 82 of his 86 wives has died at the age of 93, his spokesman said on Monday.

A nude painting of impeached South Korean president Park Geun-Hye met a violent end at the country's parliament Tuesday, reports said, as supporters tore the work -- which evokes Edouard Manet's Olympia -- off the wall and destroyed it.

Fewer sex toys contain dangerous chemicals than children's toys, a Swedish inspection authority said in a report on Monday.

In 2015, the agency found dangerous chemical substances, including lead, in 15 percent of children's toys in Sweden.

A topless protester managed to get so close to Donald Trump on Tuesday that she grabbed his crotch... or rather that of his effigy, the latest addition to Madrid's Wax Museum.

A Kenyan opposition MP has urged fellow women to impose a sex boycott until their men register to vote in August's general election.

A 15-year-old girl has been charged in Britain with killing a seven-year-old girl who died of her injuries after being found on a playing field, police said Wednesday.

A Chinese factory is hatching giant inflatable chickens resembling Donald Trump to usher in the Year of the Rooster.

A French tourist was bitten by a crocodile inside a Thai national park as she tried to get close to the fearsome animal to take a selfie, an official said on Monday.

An Indian diamond trader has thrown a mass wedding for more than 200 fatherless brides and given each of them gifts worth thousands of dollars, to help poor women start a new life. 

Mahesh Savani performed the Hindu wedding ritual of 'Kanyadaan' -- the practice of giving away one's daughter in marriage -- for 236 fatherless brides from poor families at a mega-wedding event in the western state of Gujarat at Christmas.