Adventurer Tracey Curtis-Taylor on Saturday completed her epic flight from Britain to Australia, landing her vintage, open-cockpit 1942 Boeing Stearman in Sydney.

"I need a drink," she joked after finishing the final leg of the three-month journey which saw her contend with some treacherous weather in the air and logistical obstacles on the ground.

Mexico's famed "Grand Warlock" predicted Tuesday that U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump will fail to reach the White House -- but the tycoon shouldn't worry too much: the forecaster often gets things wrong.

With his tarot cards, white-bearded Antonio Vazquez also saw fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman getting killed and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro falling from power.

All Coca-Cola wanted to do was to wish consumers a Happy New Year, but instead it ended up stirring anger in two markets, Russia and Ukraine, over the disputed territory of Crimea.

The Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula was annexed by Moscow in March 2014 and remains a trigger issue in the Russian-Ukrainian crisis today.

The name of one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists killed in the attack on the French satirical newspaper's offices is misspelled on the commemorative plaque to the victims unveiled by President Francois Hollande on Tuesday.

Georges Wolinski's name appeared as "Georges Wolinsky" on the plaque that lists the 11 people shot dead in the attack by jihadist gunmen on the newspaper's then offices in Paris on January 7, 2015.

Indonesia said Monday it was reviewing a recently unveiled mascot for the 2018 Asian Games after netizens derided what was supposed to be an exotic, jungle-dwelling bird for resembling a chicken.

The country's sports ministry last week revealed a grinning bird of paradise named Drawa as the mascot for the games, which Indonesia will host.

A Briton working at a Canadian-owned gold mine in Kyrgyzstan could face up to five years in jail for comparing a local delicacy to a horse penis, officials said Sunday. 

Michael Mcfeat, an employee of Toronto-based Centerra Gold, was detained by police after posting a comment on Facebook which caused a temporary strike at the Kumtor mine, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP.

German police Friday found a tonne of fireworks allegedly stashed in cellars by a Berlin resident after they were alerted by neighbors who noticed the man was unleashing an unusually large amount of pyrotechnics on New Year's Eve. 

Neighbors of the 25-year-old man in the eastern Berlin suburb of Hellersdorf called in officers to investigate as he appeared to have an endless supply of fireworks, police said.

A "suspected rat sighting" in the cabin forced an Air India plane carrying more than 200 passengers to return to Mumbai almost three hours into a flight to London, the airline said Thursday. 

Air India said it had decided to turn back the flight "keeping passenger safety in mind", even though the rodent's presence was not confirmed.

It is a tool that has been wielded by Thailand's generals to stamp out dissent. But now so-called "attitude adjustment" sessions are targeting a new kind of offender: drunk drivers.

Every year tens of thousands are killed on Thailand's roads, some of the world's most dangerous -- a tragedy that spikes during New Year week.

A mystery benefactor has left about 2,000 lottery tickets in an elevator and asked that flood victims get the proceeds from any winning stub, Japanese police said Tuesday.

An elderly woman found the tickets -- which would have cost about 600,000 yen ($4,980) to buy -- and notes from the anonymous donor stuffed in a paper bag at the city hall car park elevator in Tochigi, north of Tokyo.