A woman in Saudi Arabia sued a five-star hotel over mosquito bites, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.

// Feb. 09, 2010 - 01:56 GMT

An Afghan refugee from the Naser tribe has sold humanitarian aid supplies from the UN food program for 1 million Afghanis ($20,000).

// Jan. 21, 2010 - 04:39 GMT

A Chinese housewife escaped with her life after falling from the balcony of her 18th floor Beijing flat when she landed in a snowdrift, national media said on Friday.

// Jan. 08, 2010 - 05:57 GMT

Three thieves have stolen 250 boxes of chewing gum estimated at over 1.7 million rubles ($57,500) from a truck in southern Russia's Stavropol Territory, a police source said on Monday.

// Dec. 28, 2009 - 07:34 GMT

An MP from Ukraine's opposition Party of Regions punched Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko in the face during a break of a TV show, a ministry spokeswoman said.

// Dec. 12, 2009 - 19:28 GMT

A drunk man in the Perm Territory in Russia's Urals was saved by his cat when his apartment caught fire, regional emergency services said on Friday.

// Dec. 04, 2009 - 08:19 GMT

Two Chinese doctors have been dismissed after putting a steel plate in an 84-year-old patient's healthy leg, China's central CCTV television has said.

// Dec. 02, 2009 - 07:21 GMT

A sphynx cat has been seized in Russia's Kemerovo Region over a 15,000-ruble ($517) debt for housing services, a local bailiffs spokesman said on Monday.

// Nov. 30, 2009 - 08:23 GMT

The world's second-largest pearl ever found will be auctioned in Los Angeles on December 6

// Nov. 27, 2009 - 22:12 GMT

Rescuers have found a barefoot man who was lost in woods in Russia's Urals Chelyabinsk Region for three days after a family quarrel, local rescuers reported on Wednesday.

// Nov. 25, 2009 - 07:54 GMT