Dutch airline KLM announced on Wednesday that it will use a biofuel generated from used cooking oil to power more than 200 commercial flights between Paris and Amsterdam starting in September.

"There will be 50 percent traditional kerosene and 50 percent biofuel extracted from used cooking oil," KLM spokesman Gedi Schrijver told Agence France Presse, adding that KLM is the first airline to use this type of fuel in commercial flights.

An Austrian court Wednesday sentenced a German man who robbed several banks while wearing a mask of U.S. President Barack Obama to 12 years in prison.

The 45-year-old, who had already served a prison sentence in Germany for another series of bank robberies, was found guilty of holding up six banks and attempting a seventh in the northern province of Upper Austria between 2008 and 2011, the court in Ried im Innkreis ruled.

One of Hong Kong's richest property tycoons will hand out a bonus worth $2 million to his 1,500 staff after his actress daughter-in-law gave birth to his sixth grandchild, his firm said Wednesday.

Lee Shau-kee, chairman of the leading property group Henderson Land Development, announced the windfall of HK$10,000 ($1,285) for employees to celebrate the baby boy who was born last week, said spokeswoman Bonnie Ngan.

Jason Valdez is no stranger to Utah police. His latest brush with the law, however, may have been the most public.

An armed Valdez, 36, held a woman hostage at a motel in a tense 16-hour, overnight standoff with SWAT teams, all while finding time to keep his family and friends updated on Facebook, authorities said.

A Scottish businessman flushed hundreds of pounds in supposedly fake notes down the toilet, only to be told days later that they were genuine, a report said Monday.

The man, who asked not to be named, said he had obtained around £200 (226 Euros, $373) in £20 notes from an ATM on the Isle of Lewis off the north coast of Scotland, the Daily Telegraph reported.

A massive uncut emerald on exhibit in Colombia's capital is being touted by its owners as the biggest in the world, officials said Saturday.

The 11,000-karat raw green gem weighs in at 2.27 kilos (almost five pounds) and is on show in Bogota 12 years after it was mined in Muzo, in the South American nation's emerald country in Boyaca province.

French police have arrested an alleged serial foot fetishist who lured foreign women to his home near Paris with the promise of a warm bed but instead pleasured himself on their feet.

The unnamed man, aged 42, from Mantes-la-Jolie to the west of Paris, allegedly approached young women at night after they missed the last train and offered them somewhere to sleep.

Three baby elephants were killed when they were hit by a passenger train in Sri Lanka on Saturday, an official said.

The trio were crossing the tracks in a forested area near Ambanpola, 93 miles (150 kilometers) north of Colombo, when they were struck by a passenger train bound for the capital, railway general manager Wije Samarasinghe said.

Organizers of India's first "Slut Walk" have changed the name of the event and toned down its dress code because of concern the protest is too provocative, reports said Friday.

"Slut Walks," which have become a global phenomenon to protest sexual violence, see women dress in skimpy clothing to challenge the mindset that victims of sexual assault should be blamed for the crime against them.

Porn mogul Larry Flynt offered disgraced U.S. lawmaker Anthony Weiner a job Thursday, after the New York congressman resigned over a tawdry "sexting" scandal.

Hustler founder Flynt said he would pay Weiner, who posted pictures of his intimate anatomy to a number of women on Twitter, 20 percent more than what he earned in the House of Representatives.