• Chinese village exports cheap labour abroad

  Published:  Tue, February 7, 2012, 7:38 PM (GMT+0700)

  Xie Guolu proudly shows off the two-storey home he is having built in the small Chinese village of Lujiazhuang, paid for by money his son earns thousands of kilometres away in Algeria
• Miss Piggy to present BAFTA awards in Britain

  Published:  Mon, February 6, 2012, 6:20 PM (GMT+0700)

  The organisers of the BAFTA film awards in Britain have unveiled Miss Piggy as one of the show's hosts, promising spiky questions for Hollywood luminaries George Clooney and Brad Pitt
• Pig picture sends up Vermont police: report

  Published:  Mon, February 6, 2012, 1:39 PM (GMT+0700)

  Vermont's police force was oink-credibly embarrassed when they realized that the emblem on their squad cars had been doctored to show a pig
• Kazakh zoo gives monkeys red wine to beat colds

  Published:  Sat, February 4, 2012, 4:42 PM (GMT+0700)

  A zoo in the freezing steppes of Kazakhstan is giving its monkeys red wine to ward off winter colds, its chief animal specialist told AFP on Friday
• Giant centipede found in Quang Nam household

  Published:  Sat, February 4, 2012, 2:31 PM (GMT+0700)

  After watching TV, Tran Thi Le Thu (38) saw a 26 cm centipede crawling out from the TV stand in her house last Friday night
• Deep freeze hits Poland's hardy lake swimmers

  Published:  Sat, February 4, 2012, 2:17 PM (GMT+0700)

  Hardy fans of swimming in the frozen lakes of northern Poland have decided to call off a mass outing this weekend due to the vicious cold snap gripping the country
• British police share crime victims' emails in blunder

  Published:  Fri, February 3, 2012, 7:36 PM (GMT+0700)

  Britain's biggest police force apologised on Thursday to more than 1,100 victims of crime after admitting it had "inadvertently" shared their email addresses with other victims
• Nepal pensioner claims to be world's shortest man

  Published:  Fri, February 3, 2012, 5:36 PM (GMT+0700)

  Guinness World Records experts said Thursday they are to travel to a remote valley in southwestern Nepal to measure a 72-year-old claiming to be the world's shortest man
• 64-year-old tub of lard found in Germany -- still edible

  Published:  Fri, February 3, 2012, 3:39 PM (GMT+0700)

  A German pensioner who had kept a tub of lard in his cupboard for 64 years, took it to authorities who pronounced it very much fit for consumption -- if a little tasteless
• Diabetic mother gives birth to 6 kg baby

  Published:  Fri, February 3, 2012, 3:17 PM (GMT+0700)

  31-year old L.T.K from Tan Phu District, HCMC, who is diabetic, last Thursday gave birth to a 6-kg baby at Tu Du Hospital

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