Top female tennis stars said Friday it would be "creepy" if Wimbledon officials went round inspecting their knickers to check if they were flouting the competition's strict all-white clothing rule.

Players said they understood the All England Club's rules and traditions but would find it "weird" if they suddenly had to start running their underwear past an official.

Two men who got stuck waist-deep in mudflats off Alaska's Kenai Peninsula as they attempted to photograph an eagle were rescued before the tide came in.

KTUU-TV reports (http://is.gd/hu6bcn) John Prince of Little Rock, Arkansas, and William Shannon of La Porte, Indiana, had ventured out onto the mudflats in Kasilof (KUH'-see-lahf) late Thursday.

Many Americans start their day with coffee and end it with a glass (or two) of wine. Now, one U.S. company is offering both beverages... in one can.

Friends Fun Wine -- whose canned products are made in the south of France -- have introduced what they call the "world's first coffee-wine" -- Cabernet Coffee Espresso and Chardonnay Coffee Espresso.

A black bear in Juneau, Alaska, didn't let a few floorboards keep him from getting at some honey.

The male bear walked up the stairs of a porch at the home of Janet and Donald Kussart and tore through the floorboards and some insulation to get his treat, the Juneau Empire reported (http://is.gd/su9At7 ).

It was another party in Copacabana, the bars packed, the samba turned up -- and, in the middle of it all, hundreds of World Cup fans lining up to be bitten by Luis Suarez.

Or at least that was what it looked like in the photos snapped in front of an Adidas billboard of the disgraced Uruguayan star giving an open-mouthed war cry above the suddenly ironic slogan "All or nothing."

Joedir Sancho Belmonte had a ticket to attend the famous final game of the 1950 World Cup between Brazil and Uruguay, but didn't get to use it because he stayed home with his sick mother.

But he saved the unused ticket for 64 years. And on Friday — in a swap with FIFA — he was given three tickets for the July 13 final at Rio's Maracana in exchange for the tiny, crumpled memorabilia he stashed away.

A New Zealand schoolboy won the right to keep his long hair on Friday after the nation's top court combed through the merits of an often tangled case and found in his favor.

Lucan Battison, 16, called in the lawyers after he was suspended from St John's College in Hastings last month for refusing to cut his mop of curly hair.

Julian Assange has been asked to star in a fashion show by British designer Ben Westwood at Ecuador's London embassy, where the WikiLeaks founder is currently holed up in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden.

Former erotic photographer Westwood, son of legendary British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, wants "good looking" Assange, 42, to appear with six other models as part of a fringe event during London Fashion Week in September.

A jilted Chinese man spent $40,000 to book four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of the latest "Transformers" movie Friday to prove his ex-girlfriend was wrong when she dumped him for being poor seven years ago, he said.

"Hu Xiaoyun: I was so poor when we were in our fourth year at college in 2007 that I could not afford just two film tickets," the man said in a posting on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo.

The video of a Lebanese man announcing his “defection” from the Italian national football team went viral over the internet on Thursday.

The video shows three men standing with the flag of Brazil hung behind them. One of them declared his “defection” following Italy's loss and announced that he will now support the Brazilian national team.