French film director Tran Anh Hung is pictured arriving for the screening of "Norumei no mori" (Norwegian wood) at the 67th Venice Film Festival, on September 2, at Venice Lido.

A video cartoon featuring Google's chief Eric Schmidt (pictured) giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square on Thursday as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant.

Divers salvaged the world's oldest drinkable beer from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, just days after work began to retrieve dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne.

A boa constrictor wrapped round a man's leg is among the weird and wonderful things officials have found on flights through Britain.

"No kite flying allowed," reads a bright yellow sign in a Toronto park where the city's South Asian community used to gather to practice the sport they introduced to the country.

A German man celebrated his first day of retirement by handing out one-euro coins to passers-by in the quiet town of Aschaffenburg, near Frankfurt.

Sony, battling Amazon and Apple in the electronic book reader race, has unveiled its latest devices and expanded their availability to Australia, China, Italy, Japan and Spain.

Tycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of no-frills airline easyJet, said Wednesday that he planned to open budget gyms across Europe by taking advantage of low property prices.

Allergan logo. Allergan, the maker of the popular anti-wrinkle treatment Botox, said Wednesday it had agreed to pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into marketing for so-called off-label uses.

A four week old Giant Red Kangaroo baby looks out from it's mother's pouch at the Zoo in Berlin on August 10. An Australian couple believe the skin-to-skin "kangaroo-style" cuddle they gave their newborn baby saved the infant's life after their doctor had given him up for dead.