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.

Finding comfortable shoes can be a challenge even for those with average-shaped feet. But it's virtually impossible for the Venezuelan man who holds the record for the world's largest feet.

So it is hard to overstate just how welcome the gift was Jeison Rodriguez received on Wednesday: four pairs of size-26 shoes.

Cats who are tired of the rat race in fast-paced Singapore have a new high-end leisure option -- a top-of-the-range hotel complete with designer beds, Roberto Cavalli wallpaper and Swarovski crystal-studded dining ware.

The Purrfection Suites are the ultimate in luxury for fussy felines looking for some quality downtime in the most upmarket surroundings.

It took Angelique Kerber 13 years on the professional circuit to win a Grand Slam, but it has taken her an extra month to be reunited with her Australian Open trophy, she revealed Tuesday.

After her shock win over Serena Williams in Melbourne on January 30, the German star decided she did not want to carry the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup, which weighs 10 kilograms (22lbs), in her hand luggage on the long flight home.

A message in a bottle dropped in New York harbor in 2013 by an American painter has been found years later, and 5,700 kilometers (3,500 miles) away, on a beach in southwest France ... by a French artist.

George Boorujy threw the bottle, containing a drawing of a cormorant and a signed letter into the harbor at Staten Island in October 2013, regional French newspaper Sud Ouest reported.

An Australian man who plans to eat nothing but potatoes for an entire year said Tuesday that despite his strange diet he was not only feeling better, but surprisingly enjoying his meals.

Unlike Matt Damon's character in "The Martian", who is stranded on the Red Planet with little else to eat, Andrew Taylor, 35, made a deliberate decision to eat only the starchy staple for 12 months, to break what he termed his "food addiction".