A Turkish policeman missed his own wedding party after being denied permission to leave his station in the southeast, where Kurdish rebels have killed scores of security force members, local media reported Monday.

Ahmet Karavelioglu, 25, had received the green light from his paramilitary police unit to attend the celebration in southern Osmaniye province on September 18, Dogan news agency reported.

A substitute had to be sent in for Colorado State University's mascot sheep on Saturday after the 24th mascot died shortly before the team's big day.

Colorado State University President Tony Frank says CAM the Ram died Saturday, the same day as the Rocky Mountain Showdown with the CU Buffaloes.

Australia's new prime minister laughed off the idea Monday that he and his high-powered wife are Australia's answer to "House of Cards", joking that the only similarity between himself and Frank Underwood is that they both have rowing machines.

Malcolm Turnbull, the multi-millionaire former journalist, deposed Tony Abbott in an internal Liberal Party vote a week ago to become prime minister.

Three members of a group critical of Czech President Milos Zeman climbed onto the roof of the presidential palace in Prague and replaced his official flag with a huge pair of red underpants.

"The flag of a man who is a shamed of nothing flies at last from the Prague castle," the Ztohoven group of artistic pranksters said on their website and Facebook page. 

A fire drill at a school in northwestern China left more than 190 people injured, nine critically, after participants inhaled smoke used to simulate accident conditions, state media said Sunday.

More than 400 students at the middle school in Gansu province's Tianshui city took part in the combined fire and air raid drill on Friday when the artificially generated smoke surged out of control, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

An Italian woman who discovered her husband was cheating bit off his mistress's finger in a street brawl Naples police described as fairly routine, albeit unusually violent.

The revenge attack came when the wife of a businessman in the southern Italian city found out her husband was having an affair with one of her relatives.

When the Thai military says cadets can't bring phones to training, they mean it.

A video clip that has ignited social media in Thailand this week shows what happened to some officers-in-training who broke that rule.

A man is charged with burglary after police say he returned to a Twin Falls, Idaho, home for his forgotten car keys and cellphone.

The Times-News reports (http://bit.ly/1W0jIri) a woman called police when she found her home ransacked on Saturday, with a stranger's cellphone on the bed and a strange car parked behind the property.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima left for Parliament's opening on Tuesday for the last time before their opulent and historic "Golden Coach" undergoes an extensive refit.

Made of teak wood and covered with gold leaf, the coach is used each year to transport the Dutch royals from the king's offices at Noordeinde Palace to Parliament about a kilometre (0.6 miles) away.

After German newspapers published Arabic-language guides for refugees, Berlin's public transport network has done the same for its rail map -- with the help of a Syrian asylum-seeker.

The leaflet published by Berlin's public transport operator BVG includes names of the capital's main underground stations and essential information on the public transport system in Arabic.