A runaway zebra led police on a dramatic chase across a golf course in Japan, until its bid for freedom ended in death when it collapsed in a water trap.

The creature's odyssey, which was broadcast live on national television, saw officers in hot pursuit as they tried -- in vain -- to recapture it alive.

Security services looked on helplessly on Monday as France's "Spiderman" Alain Robert, who holds a world record for urban climbing, scaled the Total skyscraper in Paris' La Defense business district.

Despite an icy wind the 53-year-old easily climbed -- bare-handed and without ropes -- up the 187-meter (614-feet) building in less than 45 minutes, delighting passers-by.

As one of the nation's largest power providers, Duke Energy has invested large sums in whirring turbines and high tech solar projects.

On Monday it announced a new excrement-to-energy project that could provide power to about 10,000 homes a year.

A Spanish court Friday slapped a spokeswoman for Madrid's city council with a fine of 4,320 euros ($4,868) for taking her top off in a chapel during a protest in 2011 when she was still a university student.

A printer fault at Bangladesh's central bank meant that overseas queries about suspicious transactions went unanswered, according to a report seen by AFP Wednesday on the $81 million cyber heist that sent shockwaves through the banking world.

Over a quarter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's salary is deducted for his use of an armored car for official business, his paycheck shows.

A U.S. tourist has been arrested after spending a night in a cave below Jerusalem's Old City in what may have been a search for mythical buried treasure, Israeli police and media reports said Tuesday.

A Croatian man in a wheelchair robbed a bank after passers-by helped him to enter the premises, local media reported Friday.

"I have a bomb!" shouted the 35-year-old disabled man to shocked employees in a branch of  Austria's Erste Bank in downtown Zagreb, before forcing them to hand over the cash, the Vecernji list newspaper reported.

Argentines exasperated over their soaring electricity bills barged into a TV station and attacked a minister who was being interviewed about the increases, which reach as high as 700 percent.

A woman who flew into Paris from Istanbul this week was found to have hidden a four-year-old girl in a bag on the plane, Air France said Wednesday.

The airline said the child, traveling without a ticket, was discovered on board the flight on Monday night "hidden inside a bag."