A man who has spent 24 years scanning Scotland's Loch Ness for its legendary mysterious monster reckons Nessie is most likely a giant catfish -- although he is not prepared to give up looking just yet.

Steve Feltham, who holds a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous Nessie vigil, says it is the most probable explanation for the enigmatic beast that has captivated people's imaginations the world over.

Prosecutors in Hungary say they have indicted a fake mechanic who defrauded 29 female drivers by taking money to fix their cars' nonexistent problems.

Budapest Chief Prosecutor Tibor Ibolya said Wednesday in a statement that the man, who was not identified, warned women alone in their cars about false glitches like oil leaks or sparks coming out of the muffler.

A judge in Sao Paulo on Wednesday suspended a law banning the production and sale of foie gras within Brazil's largest city, after restaurant owners voiced strong objections to the measure.

Judge Sergio Rui has "temporarily suspended" the law for further review and requested additional information from the mayor and the Sao Paulo city council, justice officials told AFP.

An Australian schoolboy who discovered a new species of jellyfish in a Queensland canal has had the tentacled creature named in his honor, scientists said.

Saxon Thomas was nine when he spotted a small, box-like jellyfish while fishing with a friend in 2013. Thinking it unusual, he removed it from the water with a net, and with help of his father sent it to Queensland Museum.

Chinese Communist authorities have said the distribution of a sex tape purportedly shot in a fitting room in one of Beijing's trendiest shopping malls is "against socialist core values", after the footage went viral.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said late Wednesday it summoned executives from the country's top social network service providers after censors took the clip down.

Six brothers suspected of robbing a chic beachwear store before dodging police bullets and leading a car chase through Paris, have been rounded up and charged, legal sources said Wednesday.

The thieves are accused of stealing swimsuits, Bermuda shorts and T-shirts with a street value of up to 100,000 euros ($109,000) in Thursday's robbery, from a store of the up-market Vilebrequin chain.

A Chinese court ordered a mugger's intended victim to pay his attacker 70,000 yuan ($11,000) after he fought off the attempted robbery and beat him up, state-run media reported Wednesday.

The court sentenced the mugging target, identified only as Yuan, to three months' probation along with the fine, the Global Times newspaper said.

A cat rescued from the engine of a pickup truck after a 28-mile ride from Pennsylvania to New Jersey now has a new home.

NJ.com (http://bit.ly/1TuDCtr) reports that the cat was given to Jennifer Blunts and her boyfriend, John Tegethoff, at a ceremony Sunday. They will take the cat back their Kunkletown, Pennsylvania home.

A man is facing charges of theft and resisting arrest after authorities say he crashed a jousting performance at the Colorado Renaissance Festival and tried to make off with a sword.

A witness says the man was chased down by two women in costume Saturday. Steve Chapman says they followed him up a hill and one of them, dressed as a wench, held him in a headlock for about five minutes until her husband, in a knight's costume, showed up and held him down until security arrived. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Ron Hanavan confirmed that bystanders were able to stop 22-year-old Connor Ward.

Pope Francis on Monday joked that he did not have to "take drugs" when questioned by a journalist as to the secret of his energy during a whirlwind tour of three Latin American countries.

The 78-year-old pontiff delivered about two dozen speeches and said several masses during a weeklong trip to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.