A Danish fisherman made an unusual find in his nets recently when he discovered a pacu, a sharp-toothed cousin of the South American piranha with a reported penchant for testicles.

"If they bite, they can bite hard ... especially when they bite you where you really don't want to be bitten," joked fish expert Peter Resk Moeller of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

A New Zealand woman drove for hundreds of kilometres (miles) while asleep at the wheel, sending texts from her mobile phone along the way, police said Wednesday.

Police said they received an emergency call just after midnight Wednesday from a friend concerned the woman had gone out in her car after taking sleeping medication.

Chicago's bustling O'Hare airport has hired a new crew to keep the grass cut: a herd of goats, sheep, donkeys and llamas. Yes, llamas.

The llamas help protect the sheep and miniature goats from coyotes that roam the wooded areas near one of the world's busiest airports. The donkeys are also big and aggressive enough to keep predators away.

A judge in the southern U.S. state of Tennessee has ordered parents who named their son Messiah to change it.

"The word Messiah is a title and it's a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ," Judge Lu Ann Ballew said in the ruling last week, according to the newspaper The Tennessean.

More than 1,800 knitters have covered the Andy Warhol Bridge in the U.S. with colorful yarn.

Volunteers worked all weekend to attach 580 blanket-size, hand-knitted panels to the pedestrian walkways on the bridge in Pittsburgh, the city where Warhol was born.

Some passengers were paid to take part in a buzz-generating video which showed Norway's prime minister undercover as a taxi driver probing voters' concerns, his party admitted Monday.

Just one month before Norway's legislative elections that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenbeg's center-left coalition appears likely to lose, a video was on Sunday released showing him wearing a taxi driver's uniform and sunglasses, sitting at the wheel as he drives passengers around Oslo.

An eccentric Beijing resident has built a huge house among what looks like a pile of rocks dotted with trees on top of a 26-storey apartment block in the capital, reports said Monday.

Neighbors have complained about China's latest architectural oddity, which covers more than 1,000 square meters (10,000 square feet), saying they fear it could cause the structure to collapse on top of them, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg revealed Sunday that he has gone undercover as a taxi driver for an afternoon, in a bid to find out voters' real concerns.

"It's important for me to hear what people really think. If there's one place where people say what they think, it's in the taxi," he said in a video posted on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The U.S. Navy's information chief says there's a battle to be fought, but not the usual kind.

It's time, Rear Admiral John Kirby says, to torpedo "jargon and gibberish."

China's official news agency Xinhua has reported as true a satirical story that Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post newspaper by accident.

The publication on Xinhua's website came days after it posted a photo gallery of images supposedly showing a woman being executed by lethal injection -- which instead appeared to have come from a fetish site.