An Australian father so fed up with the taxpayer-funded travel perks given to politicians that he asked them to fund his family's holiday has received an overwhelming response -- from the public.

Father-of-three Stephen Callaghan established a GoFundMe page, entitled "Please Pay For My Kids' Holiday" asking federal politicians to give his children the same travel entitlements their own receive.

Two base jumpers who skydived off the World Trade Center "sullied the memories" of victims of the 9/11 attacks, a New York judge said Monday, slapping them with hefty sentences of community service.

James Brady, 33, who was a steel worker at the site, and "ring leader" Andrew Rossig, 34, avoided jail sentences but were ordered to carry out 250 and 200 hours of community service respectively, and each was fined $2,000.

An Alabama family drove to Colorado to be reunited with their dog Boozer on Saturday after a 9-year separation.

Boozer, now 10, had gone missing while the family was moving from Tennessee to Alabama.

Snorting smoke and wearing an "I love Wildwood" T-shirt, King Kong again clings to a 60-foot lighthouse towering over the shore town's boardwalk. Eight vintage planes circle the gorilla, bringing riders 26 feet in air.

For most of the 1970s, the giant ape ride graced Morey's Pier, only to be removed in 1980. This summer, the ferocious beast returned to a New Jersey town known for embracing nostalgia and trumpeting its kitsch.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday criticized the North's "regrettable" decision to turn back its clocks to a new time zone, saying it would deepen divisions between the two rivals.

North Korea announced Friday that it was changing its standard time to GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind South Korea.

An Australian father outraged by taxpayer-funded travel perks for politicians and their families has turned the tables by asking members of parliament to help fund his own vacation with his children.

Australian politics has been consumed with stories about the "entitlements" elected representatives are allowed, with MPs under pressure for flying their children business class for trips which cost thousands of dollars.

A family on their way to the French Riviera for their holidays left their three-year-old daughter in a motorway layby Sunday and drove more than 150 kilometers (90 miles) before realizing they had "forgotten" her, police said.

They only twigged she was missing when an alert was issued on French radio, officers said.

A central Georgia woman has been arrested after police say she called 911 scores of times over several weeks.

Bibb County authorities charged 41-year-old Toshiba L. Smith of Macon, Georgia, with making false reports and misusing the emergency number earlier this week.

Most 100-year-olds don't mark the milestone birthday with a news conference in a piano bar. Then again, Irving Fields isn't most 100-year-olds.

Fields is one of New York City's oldest lounge performers and still plays piano four nights a week at Nino's Tuscany restaurant in Manhattan. Even though he gets around more slowly than he once did, he has no plans to stop playing and recording albums.

Venezuelans are facing the prospect of a heat wave without their favorite beer, the latest indignity in a country that has seen shortages of everything from disposable diapers to light bulbs.

Cerveceria Polar, which distributes 80 percent of the beer in the socialist South American country, began shutting down breweries this week because of a lack of barley, hops and other raw materials, and has halted deliveries to Caracas liquor stores.