A waitress in Bosnia was overwhelmed with joy after a scratch lottery ticket left as a tip more than tripled her monthly wage in an instant, her sandwich bar manager said.

An Indonesian clinic is keeping a baby until her impoverished parents pay the escalating bill for her delivery and care.

Keepers at a British zoo are in a flap about a flamingo missing since it was blown away by the storms that battered Europe last week.

A big-hearted German truck driver has been thwarted in his bid to throw 75,000 euros out the window of his local town hall when the authorities turned it down.

Sick of being alone in the countryside with only their cows for company, a group of lonely Welsh dairy farmers have begun advertising on milk bottles to find a date.

Problem drinkers may know how to have a laugh but they often do not know how to take a joke or understand a punchline, researchers in Germany found.

For sale: one of Britain's smallest flats with great central London location, celebrity neighbours -- and a 170,000-pound (260,000-euro, 337,000-dollar) asking price.

South Koreans are pinning their hopes for prosperity on the upcoming Year of the Pig -- but it's bad news for condom manufacturers.