Swedish air operator SAS on Tuesday cancelled a flight from Stockholm to Chicago because of an unruly passenger -- a mouse.

The rodent was spotted ahead of boarding on the 0815 GMT flight but evaded the many mousetraps laid to catch it, SAS said.

One will emerge flush with success and nine will go down the drain: it's America's competition for best public toilet and decision time is fast approaching.

Fans have until September 19 to cast online votes for the perfect privy in America's Best Restroom contest.

Russia's ruling tandem of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have put on a new show of unity ahead of elections by going fishing and taking a joint dive in the river.

The carefully choreographed footage of two leaders -- both potential candidates in March elections that will likely only feature one of the two men -- appeared aimed at removing suggestions of a brewing political rivalry.

Activists from Ukraine's scandalous FEMEN group staged a topless protest Tuesday in a show of anger against the entire political class amid the trial against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Two young women climbed on the roof of a police truck parked in the courthouse area and quickly stripped from the waist up, an Agence France Presse photographer reported from the scene.

The hunt is on in deepest Bavaria for a cow who escaped from a farm and who has been on the run for weeks after Germany's leading newspaper, Bild, put up a 10,000 euro ($14,000) reward for her capture.

Yvonne the cow took to the woods in late May in the vicinity of Zangberg and has evaded pursuers ever since.

The leader of the isolated desert state of Turkmenistan on Tuesday ordered that the country get rid of its ubiquitous satellite dishes, state-run media said Tuesday.

"Dozens of satellite dishes erected on top of every house spoil the appearance of buildings," Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov complained during a government meeting broadcast on state-run television.

When a German boy phoned to complain he was being made to do "forced labor", police were alarmed. But it turned out the 11-year-old had only been asked by his mother to help clean up at home.

The boy from the western city of Aachen phoned on Monday to make his complaint, adding that his mother "made him work all day", police said.

A woman who attacked a painting at Washington's National Gallery of Art earlier this year has struck again, police say, this time lashing out against a Henri Matisse painting at the museum.

Susan Burns was arrested Aug. 5 after police say she walked over to Matisse's 1919 painting "The Plumed Hat," and slammed the painting repeatedly against a wall, damaging its frame but not the $2.5 million painting.

Pretty young women and older men of means -- 'sugar babies' and 'sugar daddies' -- are pairing up thanks to a U.S. website that openly offers companionship for money, but balks at the word prostitution.

SeekingArrangement.com (SA) -- which bills itself as the "premier Sugar Daddy dating site" -- does not beat around the bush.

A man was killed after being gored by a bull known to be dangerous during a bull run in an arena in Xativa, eastern Spain, local authorities said Sunday.

The bull, nicknamed "Mouse", ran at the man, who has not been named but is said to be around 30, during the run on Saturday night.