Russia's prisons service has launched an inquiry after photos emerged of toga-clad prisoners holding a lavish party complete with caviar and fast-food deliveries, media said on Wednesday.

The photographs, now published across the Russian-language Internet, show prisoners at the Serpukhov jail outside Moscow naked except for Roman-style togas and a table piled high with a feast fit for an emperor.

South Korean experts said Tuesday a vigorous gym exercise session caused a high-rise building in Seoul to shake for 10 minutes earlier this month, prompting hundreds to flee it in panic.

In front of journalists they re-created the scenario on July 5 -- a group of 17 middle-aged people working out to the tune of a pop song, "The Power" by German group Snap -- and caused the building to shake in a similar way.

A protester attacked Rupert Murdoch with a foam pie Tuesday as the media mogul told British lawmakers he was not to blame for the phone-hacking scandal, in a bizarre twist to what he called the "most humble day of my life".

The 80-year-old News Corporation chief's Chinese-born wife Wendi Deng leaped up and slapped the assailant, who was dragged off by police, before the parliamentary committee resumed quizzing Murdoch and his son James.

Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti has won a photo contest hosted by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

Yonhap said Tuesday that Morenatti's photos of cholera victims in Haiti last year earned him a $30,000 prize.

Live mannequins modeling this season's bikinis in the windows of the Coin department store in Milan -- much to the disapproval of Italy's labor unions -- are a harmless business ploy, the shop said Monday.

"We have been accused of commercializing the human body," Stefano Beraldo, the head of Coin, told journalists.

A prosecutor in Australia filed charges Tuesday against one of four men accused of breaking into a Sydney man's home late at night, holding him down on his bed and whipping him 40 times with a cable as a religious punishment.

Tolga Cifci, 20, appeared in court Tuesday charged with aggravated breaking and entering and committing an indictable offense. He did not enter a plea.

Austrian police say thieves have made off with an unusual heist — 21 tons of mustard and ketchup.

The loot was in a semitrailer parked in a lot over the weekend northwest of Vienna. Police say the truck driver showed up Monday to deliver his cargo only to see the trailer missing.

There is a new hot dog in the Guinness Book of Records after a sausage in Paraguay claimed victory as the "world's largest" at record of 203.8 meters (656 feet) long, event officials said this weekend.

Guinness representative Johanna Hessling, who traveled to the exhibition, confirmed that the Paraguay sausage broke the previous record of 150 meters (492 feet) held by a Spanish encased meat.

Tunisia's dictator fell to an uprising touched off by a tragic young fruit vendor, but post-revolution leaders are kept in check by a comics superhero armed with a French baguette.

This unlikely champion has picked up the legacy of Mohammed Bouazizi, 26, who set himself on fire in December to protest at police harassment and triggered a wave of discontent still sweeping the Arab world.

Millions of children around the country are singing 'Happy Birthday' to former South African President Nelson Mandela, to celebrate his 93rd birthday.

More than 12 million school pupils sang a special version of the song, written for the anti-apartheid leader, before lessons began Monday.