A pair of giant pandas, a state gift to South Korea from Chinese President Xi Jinping, arrived in Seoul on Thursday to a red-carpet welcome.

Aibao (lovely treasure), a two-year-old female, and Lebao (pleasant treasure) a three-year-old male, flew in from the western Chinese province of Sichuan to Incheon international airport on a specially chartered flight, accompanied by vets and a handler.

French cosmetics giant L'Oreal revealed Wednesday that Donald Trump had asked them to make a perfume in his name about a decade ago, but the beauty company said no.

However, it was nothing personal against the divisive U.S. billionaire and presidential hopeful, said L'Oreal chairman Jean-Paul Agon.

It was only a minor tweak in the spelling but a historic change when a Ukrainian village on Wednesday renamed a street, which honored Soviet founder Lenin, after The Beatles' John Lennon.

Large swathes of Ukraine have been erasing remnants of their totalitarian past since the February 2014 ouster of the ex-Soviet republic's Russian-backed president.

India's army made candidates at a recruitment day in Bihar take a written exam in their underwear to prevent them from cheating, reports said Tuesday, after a spate of exam scandals in the eastern state.

New Zealand has officially recognized its first marriage celebrant from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a pirate-costumed "Pastafarian" who said Tuesday that all were welcome to join the offbeat religion.

Wellington management consultant Karen Martyn is an ordained "ministeroni" in the church, whose adherents wear colanders on their heads and believe the universe was created by a flying noodle.

A group of friends who rented a house on Airbnb for a party weekend in a French town discovered the decomposing body of a woman in the garden, police said Sunday.

Hong Kong's beleaguered leader is nearly 100 times more unpopular than U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump, according to Facebook's new "angry-face" button that allows netizens to voice their displeasure on the social network.

Chief executive Leung Chun-ying received nearly 133,000 angry emojis on his Facebook profile picture by Saturday, three days after a raft of new emojis were introduced by the social network. Trump's picture, however, only garnered 1,400 angry faces.

A New Zealand man behind an ambitious crowdfunding campaign that raised millions of dollars to buy a privately-owned South Island beach said Friday he was stunned at its success.

Duane Major's push to take Awaroa beach out of private hands and make it a national park quickly went viral, attracting 40,000 donations to raise a total of NZ$2.3 million (U.S.$1.6 million).

Israeli police inundated with speeding tickets decided to limit their workload by tampering with the cameras that catch drivers in the act, a government report said Thursday.

Police changed settings on cameras to drastically increase speed limits, even quadrupling it in at least one case, according to the report by the state comptroller, cited by Israeli media.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Thursday said attackers threw two cakes in his face in Moscow, adding that the patisserie assault was linked to the Kremlin.

Navalny, a tireless critic of President Vladimir Putin, said the attack outside his office was carried out by "some jokers" who "chucked two cakes at me and legged it," posting a picture of his cream-smeared face on Instagram.