For the Japanese political junkie who has everything, the party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is offering the perfect gift -- a small sticky-back selfie with the bouffant premier.

Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the establishment choice for greying conservatives over several generations, is set to install a "puri-kura" machine in its Tokyo HQ lobby.

Art lovers have stripped off for nude tours of a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, a concept designed to remove the material barrier between artist and audience.

The first adults-only tour, where clothes are discarded, attracted about 50 people after-hours on Wednesday evening to view James Turrell: A Retrospective, exploring the American's love of light and landscape.

Alien spaceships have never entered Japanese airspace, the country's defense minister has told parliamentarians, after being questioned about a possible aerial invasion by little green men.

Gen Nakatani said the nation's war planes can be scrambled whenever there is a report of an unidentified flying object (UFO) but, so far, they had not encountered visitors from space.

Police are searching for whoever made off with Rocket the Rusty Rooster, a 10-foot-tall, 300-pound metal sculpture stolen from its perch outside an Athens business.

Lexington Vintage owner Bonnie Harris tells CBS 46 that she's saddened by the crime, believed to have happened Friday night or Saturday morning.

Police in a west Indian township have asked cattle owners to supply photographs of their animals to help enforce the state's tough new ban on beef, an officer said Wednesday.

Nearly 100 farmers and other owners in Malegaon have so far complied with the request for mugshots along with a dossier on the cows, said Sunil Kadasne, additional superintendent of the city.

Two Indian police officers have been suspended after spending a night out on the town with prison inmates.

The pair reportedly spent seven hours drinking with the two prisoners in a beer bar in the western Indian city of Mumbai last month.

A Brazilian priest known for conservative views on moral issues and disapproving in his sermons of kissing and sex has been suspended for sending a nude selfie to an apparent mistress on his cell phone.

"Father Alfredo Rosa Borges has been suspended from his duties," and faces ex-communication, a diocesan spokesman at Campos de Goytacazes, a northern town in Rio statetold Agence France Presse on Tuesday.

The sobbing of a chef as he chops onions in the kitchen could be a thing of the past thanks to one Japanese company, which says it has produced a tear-free vegetable.

Scientists say they have managed to disable the production of a powerful substance an onion releases as the knife slices into it, cutting down on the pungent fumes that bring tears to the eyes.

Two newly-wed brothers in Pakistan could be facing long prison sentences after police arrested them on terrorism charges for letting off firecrackers during their joint wedding ceremony.

It is a longstanding, if dangerous, custom at Pakistani weddings to set off fireworks and fire weapons in the air in celebration, but police in Karachi said this time the happy couples went too far.

As colleagues cheered him on, a Mexican policeman pumped ten gunshots into a protected species of crocodile crawling out of a lagoon, sparking outrage on social media, officials said Monday.

The officer now faces charges over the killing in the town of Ahome in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.