Nelson Mandela's granddaughters, Swati Dlamini and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, are to star in a new reality television programme called Being Mandela.
A German job centre apologises after offering work as a hostess in a brothel to a teenage girl, according to a local newspaper.
A South Korean YouTube parody of Les Miserables - featuring snow-shovelling airmen, a cruel senior officer and a love struck conscript - becomes an online hit.
An app that transforms adult newspapers into child-friendly text and animations has been launched in Japan.
A French MP sparks a debate about the use of electronic devices in parliament in France after being photographed playing online Scrabble on his tablet.
The world's longest domestic cat, a 48.5in (1.23m) Maine Coon named Stewie, of Reno Nevada, dies at the age of eight.
The Pakistani city where Osama Bin Laden was found and killed is building an amusement park in a bid to boost tourism, officials say.
The French government overturns a 200-year-old ban on women wearing trousers in the capital, Paris, dating from November 1800.
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