A Turkish policeman missed his own wedding party after being denied permission to leave his station in the southeast, where Kurdish rebels have killed scores of security force members, local media reported Monday.

Ahmet Karavelioglu, 25, had received the green light from his paramilitary police unit to attend the celebration in southern Osmaniye province on September 18, Dogan news agency reported.

An Australian marketing campaign that lets people personalize their jars of chocolate spread has not gone to plan, with participants designing labels and posting them online that read "diabetes" and "poop".

The "Make Me Yours" promotion for Nutella, which began last week, asked Australians to avoid creating labels which were "obscene, offensive, inappropriate or unsuitable for minors". 

Police are searching for a shotgun-wielding robber who told a Pennsylvania pizza shop clerk he was having a "bad day."

State police say the man entered Fox's Pizza in Hibbs at about 8:15 p.m. Friday carrying the gun and a camouflage bag.

A Hawaii spear fisherman who was bit in the leg by a tiger shark off the coast of the Big Island swam to shore and then filmed a video of his deep wound as he was being carried away on a gurney.

"I just got attacked by a tiger shark," an exasperated Braxton Rocha, 27, of Kapaau, Hawaii, said in the shaky video posted to Instagram. The footage pans down the man's body to a gaping gash in the middle of his left leg.

A Turkish policeman missed his own wedding party after being denied permission to leave his station in the southeast, where Kurdish rebels have killed scores of security force members, local media reported Monday.

Ahmet Karavelioglu, 25, had received the green light from his paramilitary police unit to attend the celebration in southern Osmaniye province on September 18, Dogan news agency reported.

A substitute had to be sent in for Colorado State University's mascot sheep on Saturday after the 24th mascot died shortly before the team's big day.

Colorado State University President Tony Frank says CAM the Ram died Saturday, the same day as the Rocky Mountain Showdown with the CU Buffaloes.

Australia's new prime minister laughed off the idea Monday that he and his high-powered wife are Australia's answer to "House of Cards", joking that the only similarity between himself and Frank Underwood is that they both have rowing machines.

Malcolm Turnbull, the multi-millionaire former journalist, deposed Tony Abbott in an internal Liberal Party vote a week ago to become prime minister.

Three members of a group critical of Czech President Milos Zeman climbed onto the roof of the presidential palace in Prague and replaced his official flag with a huge pair of red underpants.

"The flag of a man who is a shamed of nothing flies at last from the Prague castle," the Ztohoven group of artistic pranksters said on their website and Facebook page. 

A fire drill at a school in northwestern China left more than 190 people injured, nine critically, after participants inhaled smoke used to simulate accident conditions, state media said Sunday.

More than 400 students at the middle school in Gansu province's Tianshui city took part in the combined fire and air raid drill on Friday when the artificially generated smoke surged out of control, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

An Italian woman who discovered her husband was cheating bit off his mistress's finger in a street brawl Naples police described as fairly routine, albeit unusually violent.

The revenge attack came when the wife of a businessman in the southern Italian city found out her husband was having an affair with one of her relatives.