A blog imagining sunglasses-sporting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in amusing text exchanges with other politicos and celebrities has gone viral -- and boosted her cool quotient.

"Hey Hil, Watchu doing?" President Barack Obama says to his top diplomat on the spoof blog as he is shown reclining on a sofa.

An attacker armed with a sword killed four relatives and wounded three others after a family dispute in Hungary on Friday before being arrested by a police anti-terrorist unit, state media reported.

Jutast Csanad Horvath, 24, was detained near the scene of the killings in an area of moorland in the village of Kulcs, around 60 kilometers (40 miles) outside the capital Budapest.

A US chocolatier will unveil what is being billed as the world's first chocolate kimono at its new outlet in Japan later this month -- but the unusual garment is not for sweet-toothed customers.

About a third of the dye for the silk kimono, a traditional flowing outfit that is now mostly worn on special occasions, is from chocolate made by New York's MarieBelle for its cafe in the country's ancient capital Kyoto.

The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colors across the screen with his favorite app.

A few minutes later, Mahal presses his face up against the mesh, stretches out his long tongue and taps the screen to make it light up and play his favorite song, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

More than 200 pit bulls rescued from an illegal online dog-fighting operation in the Philippines were saved from a mass cull after two animal shelters agreed to care for them, rescuers said Thursday.

Thirty-three dogs weakened by wounds, dehydration and poor nutrition or showing overly aggressive behavior had already been put down while four other animals died since their rescue, the Philippine Animal Welfare Society said.

A South Korean woman was detained for killing her baby who was born while she was playing online games, police said Thursday.

They said the 26-year-old gave birth while at an Internet cafe in Seoul on March 25. She allegedly put the infant in a plastic bag, sealed it and dumped it in a nearby parking lot.

Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei said Thursday he was ordered to take down four live webcams he installed in his home this week to mock authorities' round-the-clock surveillance of him.

Ai, who was held in secret detention for 81 days last year as part of a widespread clampdown on dissent in China, said authorities had telephoned and given him a "clear order" to stop the live feed from his Beijing house.

A pleased-looking Pope Benedict XVI was presented with a colorful, two-meter high Easter egg weighing 250 kilograms on Wednesday, as Catholics and other Christians prepare to celebrate Easter, the Agence France Presse reported Thursday.

The egg, made by Italian chocolate maker Tosca, was unveiled in a Vatican courtyard. The brilliant yellow and blue wrapper was decorated with the pope's coat of arms, wreathes of flowers and doves -- the symbol of peace.

Gillette, the world’s leading Male Grooming brand, has launched its most technologically advanced razor, Gillette Fusion ProGlide™, across the Middle East, the company said in a press release.

At an event hosted by senior executives and scientists from Gillette and Procter & Gamble at YAS Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, guests learned how Gillette’s new ProGlide razor has “truly turned shaving into gliding, offering men throughout the region their most comfortable shave yet,” said Gillette.

A district in Indonesia handed out cash to civil servants who volunteer for vasectomies -- but the initiative upset women who fear their sterilized husbands will be more likely to have affairs, the Agence France Presse reported Wednesday.

Mukomuko district on Sumatra Island is offering one million rupiah ($109) to any of its 2,000 male employees who undergo the operation, in a bid to control population growth in the world's most populous Muslim nation.