A 57-year-old Frenchwoman who said she was suffering from "devastating loneliness" has been found dead in her freezer in an apparent suicide, police said on Tuesday.

Fire officers made the grisly discovery when they were called to the woman's house in the Paris suburbs on Monday after her daughter said she was "worried because she had not heard from her mother."

A doctor thought it might be funny to crack a joke about a bomb in his luggage. Instead, he partly forced the evacuation of Miami International airport, and earned an almost $90,000 fine.

Manuel Alvarado, 60, will pay out $89,172 for his "momentary lapse of reason in making these statements," which prompted costly evacuations and delays for airlines, and brought out a police bomb squad, said his lawyer Brian Bieber.

An Indian student who traveled to Iraq to join the Islamic State group has returned home disillusioned after jihadists made him clean toilets and do other menial jobs, according to media reports.

Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May amid fears by authorities that IS militants were attempting to recruit from India's large pool of young Muslim men.

An Indian diamond trader has thrown a mass wedding ceremony for 111 fatherless women and given each one gifts worth thousands of dollars, saying giving a bride away was "sacred".

Mahesh Savani said the women, whose families were all too poor to finance their weddings, saw him as their foster father.

It was Rio's biggest mass wedding: a total of 1,960 couples who exchanged vows Sunday in a hall next to the famous Maracana stadium.

The big event brought out a whopping 12,000 people, between brides and grooms, friends and family and authorities -- including a pack of judges, a Catholic priest and an evangelical Christian pastor.

In the village where he was born, a Chinese chicken breeder emerged from a lake of green to tell of his life beneath the waves in a homemade orange submarine.

Tan Yong bolted together his two-tonne craft, christened the "Happy Lamb" after a popular cartoon character, in just nine months and has steered it down to depths of eight meters.

Police say a Pennsylvania woman chased her boyfriend around a dining room and stabbed him in the chest because he started eating Thanksgiving dinner while she slept off a bender.

Authorities say Jacklyn Blake confessed to officers who responded to her Wilkes-Barre (WILKS'-ba-ree) home Thursday. Officers found her boyfriend inside holding a towel over his chest. He was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

It's a tale to make any self-respecting pothead weep.

More than 13 tonnes of hashish sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean after smugglers carrying the potent stash were intercepted by boats working for Triton, the EU's coastal patrol operation said Friday.

A Maserati-driving businessman accused of mauling a traffic officer in the Philippine capital went on national television Friday to defend himself after he was transformed into an internet villain.

The businessman, Joseph Russel Ingco, told national evening newscasts on Friday that he felt forced to explain his side of the incident out of safety fears.

Two hippos that escaped from notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's former estate have been sterilized to prevent them from overwhelming the Colombian countryside with their offspring, authorities said Friday.

Fourteen veterinary professionals took part in the operations on the two hippos, who were nicknamed Joaco and Matildo by the landowner whose property they descended on after escaping the late drug lord's former ranch.