Hong Kong police said Thursday they are probing Internet photos showing a group of policewomen in controversial poses, pointing guns at each other and pulling up their uniform skirts.

The photos, including one in which two policewomen touch a colleague's breasts, and another group dressed in their underwear, were splashed in the territory's Chinese-language dailies this week.

In Germany the idea of a teenager spending a few months abroad looking after someone else's children while she studies or travels has given rise to a new concept -- the granny "au pair".

Newspapers now explicitly solicit applications from older women rather than students with ads such as: "Family living in Australia with two children aged 4 and 2 seeks German replacement granny for three to six months".

An 18-year-old model and five other people, including two Dutch citizens, have been arrested in Argentina on charges of trying to smuggle drugs to Europe, authorities said Wednesday.

The head of Argentina's airport police said the Argentine model Daiana Antivero was part of the operation to send mules to Europe.

An Ohio zoo is using artificial eggs to fool its mother flamingoes, so they don't wear themselves out.

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has found eggs laid by its female flamingoes are most likely to hatch if they're put in an incubator.

A 14-year-old German boy sparked a major police operation after taking his father's new Ferrari for a spin lasting several hours, authorities said Wednesday.

The teenager's parents bought the 200,000-euro ($280,000) sports car in Berlin and were on Tuesday returning to their home in Spain when police stopped them on a motorway near the German capital and detained them for questioning.

A two-headed snake has gone on display at a zoo in southern Ukraine.

The "Skazka" (Fairy tale) zoo in the Crimean city of Yalta on the Black Sea said Wednesday that the albino California Kingsnake has two heads that think, react and eat separately, though one is more passive than the other.

Spain's annual San Fermin festival is best known for its running of the bulls but revelers can also take home prizes for spitting an olive pit the furthest or taking the sexiest photo.

Over 35 awards will be dished out during this year's nine-day fiesta in the northern city of Pamplona, including for the best kiss, drunkest person and most impressive jump from the city's central Navarreria fountain.

The skirl of bagpipes may conjure up the chilly moors of Scotland, but a British colonial legacy means the unique sound is echoed on Pakistan's dusty Punjab plains.

Not only do Pakistanis play the instruments, they manufacture them and claim to export more than any country except Scotland.

Angola's capital Luanda retained the unenviable title of the world's most expensive city for expatriates, narrowly edging out Tokyo, according to a survey published Tuesday.

At the other end of the scale, the Mercer group's study named the Pakistani port Karachi as the least expensive city, with living around three times cheaper than in Luanda.

It is dubbed "Manhattanhenge" and happens two times a year when the Sun aligns at dusk with streets in a glowing magic trick as rays of sunlight span across New York perfectly, from west to east.

"Manhattanhenge may just be a unique urban phenomenon in the world," says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, of the American Museum of Natural History, who officially discovered the phenomenon.