Just years ago, winter was a dead season for the Kotelnica Mountain, quiet under a quilt of snow.

Today Kotelnica vibrates with activity from countless ski fans who flock to the new resort, one of Poland's most trendy.

Cyprus is to suspend legal proceedings against 42 elderly women who were summoned to appear in court later this month accused of illegal gambling, the island's attorney general said on Friday.

The move follows public dismay after media reports that the women -- the youngest is 62 and the oldest 98 -- were being prosecuted under the country's gambling laws which carry a maximum sentence of six months in jail for a conviction.

Emin Ljutic is so attached to his twin brown bears he says he's ready to take his own life rather than see them put to death, as ordered by Bosnian law.

In the hamlet of Bistrica, in central Bosnia, Ljutic has even vacated his house to let his two pets -- Laka and Gvido -- roam free.

A male giraffe that died in an Indonesian zoo was found to have 20 kilograms of plastic in its stomach, officials said Saturday, the latest suspicious animal death at the facility.

Kliwon, 30, was born at Surabaya Zoo, the biggest in the country, and was its last remaining giraffe, living alone in its pen for 13 years. It died on Thursday.

Police say it wasn't too hard to nab one would-be Belfast burglar — he managed to get his arm stuck while trying to reach through a front door letterbox.

Northern Ireland police say a passing patrol spotted the 17-year-old wrestling to free himself from a house's front door before sunrise Thursday.

Cyprus police have summoned a 98-year-old and about 40 other elderly women to court to face gambling charges after raiding their weekly poker party.

The women, mostly in their 70s, were stunned to receive a court summons this week, more than two years since the raid, said Yioula Diakantoni, the daughter of the 98-year-old.

Thousands of male Indonesian civil servants had their monthly pay transferred to their wives' bank accounts this week in a bid by a local government to stop men having affairs.

The Gorontalo administration on northern Sulawesi Island issued the recommendation early this year to its 3,200 civil servants, saying it would help control funds usually spent on mistresses.

A Frenchman is suing Google for making him the laughing stock of his village after the firm's Street View service put on the Internet a picture of him urinating in his garden, his lawyer said Thursday.

"He discovered the existence of this photo after noticing that he had become an object of ridicule in his village," lawyer Jean-Noel Bouillaud told Agence France Presse, asking for the name of the village not be published.

A Spanish village plans to rent out its fields for growing cannabis in an urgent bid to create jobs and money to pay off its debts, officials said.

The Catalonian village of Rasquera, population 900, voted late Wednesday in favor of a plan to rent land to an association that promotes the legal recreational or therapeutic use of cannabis by its 5,000 members.

They still fight like cats and dogs in divorce court. But more and more they are fighting about cats and dogs.

Custody cases involving pets are on the rise across America.