A Hong Kong school has lost an appeal against a noise abatement order issued after a neighbor complained about the daily ruckus emanating from its playground, reports said Tuesday.

High Court Judge Thomas Au dismissed an appeal by Lantau International School, which was required in 2009 to keep noise levels below 60 decibels or face fines, the South China Morning Post reported.

Just as in the Middle Ages, flocks of sheep and herds of cows made their way through Madrid city center on Sunday, marking the centuries-old annual tradition of transhumance, in which cattle migrates from summer to winter pastures.

Thousands of bleating sheep that had left the mountains of the north or the hot plains of the south, found their way through the city streets no differently than they would a rural hamlet.

German police called to a traffic incident early Sunday were astonished to find themselves face-to-face with Jedi master Yoda from Star Wars, much the worse for wear after Halloween celebrations.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, a 42-year-old male driver, resplendent in his Yoda costume, had a minor collision with a pedestrian and sped off in his car, only to be collared by a police vehicle two minutes later.

A Moscow driver smashed into 17 cars in the Russian capital Sunday on a drunken rampage while naked behind the wheel of his car, later explaining he was flying on "the wings of love", police said.

A police spokesman said the man "was in a state of insobriety behind the wheel of the car, lost control" and smashed into 13 civilian cars and four police vehicles, the RIA Novosti news agency said.

Filipinos who cannot make the traditional All-Saints' Day visits to cemeteries will be able to offer their prayers for the dead online through a website set up by the country's Catholic bishops.

The website, http://undasonline.com/, is aimed mainly at the millions of overseas Filipinos who cannot visit the graves of their departed relatives on November 1, a widespread tradition in this largely-Catholic nation.

A Miami police officer is accused of driving 120 mph on a turnpike because he was late for his off-duty job working security at a school.

The Florida Highway Patrol says Officer Fausto Lopez was arrested at gunpoint after leading police on a brief high-speed chase.

Police in Bellingham, Washington, say a man who walked into a medical clinic with his right arm severed indicated he cut his own limb off with a homemade guillotine.

Officers checked a wooded area near the urology clinic Thursday and found the severed arm and guillotine in a transient camp. The victim and the arm were taken first to St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.

A senior South Korean diplomat has been summoned home from Russia for behaving in an offensive manner under the influence of alcohol at an event that took place just three days after he started his job.

The consul general in Russia's Irkutsk City, whose name was withheld, has been under fire for being drunk and disorderly at a dinner on October 20.

An Indian company has launched what it says is the world's first "cash machine" that dispenses gold and silver coins and diamond-studded jeweler.

The Gitanjali Group launched the Gold and Diamond automatic teller machine at a central Mumbai shopping mall for the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, on Wednesday.

The 100-pound, 8-foot-tall mysterious Lego man that was found on a Florida beach may soon be sprung from a holding room.

Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said Thursday that Lego-man could be freed from the shed where he's been kept for two days.