South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday criticized the North's "regrettable" decision to turn back its clocks to a new time zone, saying it would deepen divisions between the two rivals.

North Korea announced Friday that it was changing its standard time to GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind South Korea.

An Australian father outraged by taxpayer-funded travel perks for politicians and their families has turned the tables by asking members of parliament to help fund his own vacation with his children.

Australian politics has been consumed with stories about the "entitlements" elected representatives are allowed, with MPs under pressure for flying their children business class for trips which cost thousands of dollars.

A family on their way to the French Riviera for their holidays left their three-year-old daughter in a motorway layby Sunday and drove more than 150 kilometers (90 miles) before realizing they had "forgotten" her, police said.

They only twigged she was missing when an alert was issued on French radio, officers said.

A central Georgia woman has been arrested after police say she called 911 scores of times over several weeks.

Bibb County authorities charged 41-year-old Toshiba L. Smith of Macon, Georgia, with making false reports and misusing the emergency number earlier this week.

Most 100-year-olds don't mark the milestone birthday with a news conference in a piano bar. Then again, Irving Fields isn't most 100-year-olds.

Fields is one of New York City's oldest lounge performers and still plays piano four nights a week at Nino's Tuscany restaurant in Manhattan. Even though he gets around more slowly than he once did, he has no plans to stop playing and recording albums.

Venezuelans are facing the prospect of a heat wave without their favorite beer, the latest indignity in a country that has seen shortages of everything from disposable diapers to light bulbs.

Cerveceria Polar, which distributes 80 percent of the beer in the socialist South American country, began shutting down breweries this week because of a lack of barley, hops and other raw materials, and has halted deliveries to Caracas liquor stores.

Uganda's top court on Thursday banned the practice of refunding bride price — normally livestock given by the groom to his bride's family — when a marriage ends in divorce.

The Supreme Court agreed with activists that the practice undermines the dignity of women but it upheld the practice of paying bride price.

A wallet lost 70 years ago by an American soldier in Austria during World War II was returned to its rightful owner thanks to a doctor who discovered the item in his late grandfather's farmhouse.

Josef Ruckhofer told AFP on Thursday he had been renovating the house near the city of Salzburg when he stumbled across the leather wallet under a wooden plank in June.

It is a safari with a twist: two private Czech mining companies have joined forces to take tourists on trips to see long-necked excavators and coal beds, instead of giraffes and lush wilderness.

"We are standing at the edge of a mine that was opened in 1901," guide and former miner Josef Gerthner told a group as they snapped pictures of monster excavators in the distance on a hot summer day.

The pilot of a Swedish domestic flight used an ax to pry open a toilet door after a drunk passenger locked himself just before landing, Swedish police said Thursday.

The passenger, who was on board Nextjet's flight from Stockholm to the northern town of Ornskoldsvik on Wednesday evening, locked himself in the bathroom just 10 minutes before landing.