Angola is to hold a beauty contest for women maimed by landmines as it seeks to raise awareness.

AP - Some workers are doing it at Dunkin' Donuts, Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees at a growing number of businesses around the nation are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure — information that is automatically reflected in payroll records.

Petra the swan has a new home and so does her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat.

Reuters - A shepherd is suing Russia's space agency for compensation after he said a 3-metre-long chunk of metal from a space rocket fell into his yard, just missing his outdoor toilet.

Reuters - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori apologized for not wearing socks to his trial on Wednesday and for falling asleep in the previous court session, when a frustrated judge rang a bell to wake him.

A would-be millionaire who bought a winning lottery ticket in Devon fails to claim the £6.9m prize.

Reuters - A man in Germany fled his home half naked for cold, snow-swept streets to escape a mouse in his living room, authorities said on Thursday.

AP - Petra the swan has a new home and so does her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat.

A wild bear which touched the hearts of Germans for weeks in 2006 is stuffed and put on public display.

AP - Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a tone that signals feeding time.

Actress Demi Moore confesses to indulging in an unusual alternative therapy - blood-sucking leeches.

The story of the man who built himself a robot girlfriend because it wasn't really working out with human ladies.

A man from Kent is sent 3,000 receipts in the post after paying the London congestion charge online.

Reuters - Two Fijian youths who mistakenly stopped a police car thinking it was their truck are now on the run after dumping their sacks of dried leaves, believed to be marijuana, at the feet of the police and fleeing into bushes.

Reuters - Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary's famed acumen and self-confidence briefly deserted him when he failed to back his own horse Hear The Echo to win the Irish Grand National at odds of 33-1.

Reuters - Police rescued two teenage Bulgarian sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating piranhas for the amusement of guests, police said.

Reuters - Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru on Tuesday.

Reuters - A nude portrait of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni will go under the hammer in New York next month, according to auctioneers Christie's.

An 18-year-old in Indiana will have the prom night she was dreaming of, thanks to a mystery man's Easter tip.

A man who was born a woman has claimed to be five months pregnant and expecting a baby daughter this summer.