Police in the Swiss town of Grenchen were investigating Friday after four pigs' heads were found buried at the site of a planned mosque.

Officers in the Solothurn canton were tipped off by media who received an anonymous letter stating that 120 liters of pigs' blood had been poured over the grounds in protest at the country's "rampant Islamisation."

A special lottery launched by a Spanish charity for the blind to mark the 11th day of the 11th month of 2011 cleaned up with all of its 13.5 billion tickets sold, organizers said Friday.

Long queues formed at lottery stands run by ONCE, a charity for the blind whose name means "eleven" in Spanish, in the hope that the numerical quirk of the date would prove auspicious for winning the 11-million-euro top prize.

Paris police said Thursday they had seized 270 tons of miniature Eiffel towers and arrested four people in an operation against illicit street vendors.

Police this year have stepped up efforts to rid the streets of Paris, the world's most visited city, of thousands of illegal vendors hawking souvenirs.

"A town to live in!" boasts the faded sign in the Spanish town of La Muela, overlooking a new road.

The irony is bitter.

Egypt will close the Great Pyramid of Giza on Friday to avoid any rituals by a group rumoured to have plans to mark the date of 11/11/11 at the site, an official said.

The decision came "after much pressure" from Egyptian Internet users that strange rituals were going to be held "within the walls of the pyramid on November 11, 2011," Atef Abu Zahab, head of theDepartment of Pharaonic Archaeology, told Agence France Presse.

A number of Lebanese parliament members, actors, and beauty queens made promises which, if delivered, might be considered as wonders of the world.

In a TV commercial released on all Lebanese stations, these personalities made promises ranging from wearing an orange tie, to kissing a cow on the lips.

Thousands of Chinese couples are reportedly planning to get married on Friday, dubbed "singles' day" in China because the date is made up entirely of the number one.

November 11 has been celebrated as an unofficial day for the unattached in China since the 1990s, and is seen as a good date to tie the knot and leave the single life behind.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking a second look at a "Christmas tree tax" that's really not a tax at all, in the face of an uproar triggered by a conservative think tank.

The Heritage Foundation set tongues wagging when it said a levy of 15 cents (11 euro cents) for every fresh Christmas tree harvested in the United States or imported, amounted to a new tax by Barack Obama's administration.

All eyes will be on the Gulf's booming airlines and how deeply they dig into their wallets when the Middle East's main airshow opens in Dubai next week, though few are expecting a flood of blockbuster deals.

That's because the region's heavyweights — Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways — already boast long lists of planes on order designed to fatten their young fleets for years to come.

A rodeo bull in the U.S. appears comfortable again after spending about 20 hours with his head stuck in a giant tire.

The bull, named Skywalker, couldn't eat or drink after he got his head lodged in a discarded truck tire, ranch owner Paige De Ponte said.