A Chinese park has reportedly painted stripes on a horse and is charging people to have pictures taken with the 'zebra'.
Shenyang botanical park is charging 30p each for pictures with the animal which, as well as painted black stripes, has fluffy white hair.
When asked if the zebra is real, the feeder answered: "It's from Africa. What do you call it, if it's not a zebra?"
"We saw right away that the zebra is fake, but we are here for fun, so it doesn't really matter," said a mother who had just paid for her child's picture.
A 21-metre (70ft) floating sculpture of a naked man has been installed in Milan's main park.
The balloon, a self-portrait by Pawel Althamer, a Polish artist, has been hovering outside the Palazzina Appiani in Parco Sempione since Monday, drawing second takes, amused looks and some reprobation about exposing children to nudity.
"To be honest with you, it's nothing new," said Rosaria Mirabelli, the mother of three-year-old Tommaso, who stared at the sculpture from the back of his mother's bicycle. "He sees his father naked. In this park we see so many worse things than a naked man," she added, referring to the park's reputation as a haven for drug users.
BBCFri, 11 May 2007 14:02 UTC
A nine-year-old boy has hatched a chick from a box of free-range eggs which his mother bought in a Suffolk supermarket.
The chick, named Celia, hatched three weeks after Miles Orford, of Great Ashfield, placed six free-range Cotswold Legbar eggs in an incubator.
His mother, Sarah Orford, said: "We've tried the same experiment with quail and duck eggs.
"None of the quail eggs hatched. We're still waiting to see what happens with the duck eggs."
Glenn Goodlove said he was likely smooching with a girl in the expansive back seat of a 1946 Hudson when his wallet slipped from his pants pocket more than five decades ago. The year was 1952.
ABCWed, 09 May 2007 03:51 UTC
Two Canadian comedians have fooled France's president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy with a crank phone call.
The 'Masked Defenders' - Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel - called Mr Sarkozy pretending to be Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The caller apologised for his poor French skills and invited Mr Sarkozy to visit Canada to eat a popular Quebec dish of fries, cheese curds and gravy.
A German man failed his driving test after attempting the examination while three times over the legal alcohol limit, police said Tuesday.
APMon, 07 May 2007 12:24 UTC
A Las Vegas company has agreed to pull the energy drink Cocaine from stores nationwide amid concerns about the product's name, a partner in the company said Monday.
Comment: When a company marketing a product names the product after a drug that destroys many peoples lives just so they can turn a profit, you know we live in truly bizarro and psychopathic world.
Malaysian customs officials plan to send more than 196,000 cans of smuggled beer gurgling down the drain after confiscating them from a gang that specialised in reselling duty-free drinks to pubs and grocers.
APMon, 07 May 2007 18:31 UTC
A 9-year-old boy who complained of an earache was a little surprised when the doctor told him that a pair of spiders had tried to make a home out of him.
CTV.caMon, 07 May 2007 13:51 UTC
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Canada's harmless poppy quarter has given some suspicious U.S. army contractors red faces after it was revealed they filed espionage accounts on the world's first coloured coin.
Comment: When a company marketing a product names the product after a drug that destroys many peoples lives just so they can turn a profit, you know we live in truly bizarro and psychopathic world.