Police in a northern Indian city said Tuesday they have a new weapon for controlling unruly protesters in the world's largest democracy: pepper-spraying drones.

Yashasvi Yadav, police chief of Lucknow, said his officers have successfully test-flown the newly purchased drones with a view to better crowd control. 

Prince Harry has warned Australians against taking a "selfie" with him during his one-month stint Down Under, saying he much prefers normal photographs.

The 30-year-old British prince was warmly received by hundreds of fans in Canberra on Monday, including one teenage girl who wanted to have a photograph of herself with him in the background.

Two thousand miles might seem like a long way to go for fried chicken.

Two men from Canada who took their sons on a journey to the original home of Kentucky Fried Chicken say it's a trip they'll never forget.

A group of around 30 gynaecologists in a Romanian town have decided to stop all abortions during the week leading up to Orthodox Easter on April 12, so as to not "upset God".

"We do not perform abortions during the major holidays, especially during Holy Week and Christmas because we think it is not right to upset God," said Marius Craina, gynaecologist and director of the local hospital of Timisoara, a town in western Romania.

A group of artists on Monday installed a bust of fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden on a war memorial in a New York park, though authorities quickly removed the illicit statue.

The trio of artists placed the bronze-looking bust atop a column on a memorial to Revolutionary War soldiers in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park, just before dawn. The name "Snowden" was also affixed to the bottom of the column.

New Jersey police say a teenager who had just received her learner's permit drove into an apartment building and struck three gas meters after hitting the accelerator instead of the brake.

The 16-year-old was getting a driver's lesson from her father Thursday night in Woodbridge when the crash occurred.

Japan's swollen ranks of cuddly mascots, once de rigueur for every local government and commercial brand, are coming under increasing threat, with some being culled and others combined.

The move comes after the finance ministry last year ordered authorities nationwide to cut back on the use of life-size "yuru-kyara" ("laid-back characters"), saying many of them are a waste of public money.

A "disorderly" goat has been corralled in northern New Jersey, and authorities are now trying to determine who owns the wayward animal.

Two Paramus police officers nabbed the small white goat shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday. The department says on its Facebook page they were responding to "calls of a disorderly goat head-butting a door."

A 100-year-old Japanese woman has become the world's first centenarian to complete a 1,500-meter freestyle swim, 20 years after she took up the sport.

Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 - 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan, on Saturday.

People who want to participate in Alaska's biggest guessing contest have until Sunday to buy tickets for the Nenana Ice Classic.

Thousands of people each year pay to try to guess the exact date and time the ice will break up on the Tanana River in Nenana. Each guess costs a $2.50 ticket.