A bunch of Japanese grapes has sold for a record one million yen ($8,200), or $315 per berry -- no trifling matter even in a country where fruit can cost a small fortune.

The record-setting bunch of 26 "Ruby Roman" grapes was the highest-priced at this year's first auction in Kanazawa, 300 kilometres (180 miles) northwest of Tokyo, smashing the previous record of 550,000 yen set last year. 

Talk about a splash landing.

A Brazilian baby was born in a toilet bowl after his mother, who did not know she was pregnant, sat down to relieve stomach pains, O Dia newspaper reported Wednesday.

It could trade for 400 times more than the price of crude oil and 2,000 times more than iron ore. If sold off the shelf, it could cost more than 150 times the price of a gallon of cow's milk and 15 times more than coffee.

Going for as much as $4 per ounce, breast milk is a hot commodity that is emerging as a surprisingly cutthroat industry, one that states are seeking to regulate amid a battle for control between nonprofit and for-profit banks that supply hospital neonatal units.

Two of Russia's most iconic historical figures came to blows close to Moscow's Red Square when a Stalin double allegedly attacked a Lenin lookalike over a work dispute, police said Tuesday.  

"A Lenin impersonator on Manezh Square has filed a complaint with the metro police, accusing the Stalin impersonator he was working with of having struck him three times in the back with an umbrella after a heated argument," Moscow metro official Alexander Rybak told Agence France Presse. 

Russian police on Tuesday launched a campaign urging people to take safer selfies after around 100 were injured and dozens died this year in gruesome accidents while striking high-risk poses. 

"A cool selfie could cost you your life," the interior ministry warned in a new leaflet packed with tips such as "a selfie with a weapon kills".

Little has leaked out about the details of the Iran nuclear talks, but senior U.S officials have offered a rare insight into some of the more surprising behind-the-scenes facts.

Angry European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker berated euro MPs who heckled him for looking at his phone during a parliamentary debate Tuesday, saying he was texting the Greek prime minister.

Juncker's exchange of messages with Alexis Tsipras came just hours before an emergency eurozone summit called after debt-stricken Greeks overwhelmingly voted 'No' to further austerity measures in a referendum at the weekend.

An independent Australian senator Tuesday threatened to physically intimidate Prime Minister Tony Abbott, using illegal rugby tactics including grabbing his testicles, if he does not limit coal-seam gas exploration.

Glenn Lazarus, a former rugby league prop and a senator for the eastern state of Queensland, said he submitted a petition to Abbott calling for health impact assessments, exclusion zones and community consultations over mining developments near residential, agricultural and farming areas.

The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112, an official said Tuesday.

Momoi, born months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight, passed away late Sunday, said the official at Saitama City, north of Tokyo, where he had lived for many years.

She was a teenager during World War I and her life spans three centuries. On Monday, New Yorker Susannah Mushatt Jones celebrated her 116th birthday as the world's oldest living person.

Guinness World Records announced the occasion and released photographs of Jones, dressed smartly in a white jacket, black dress and matching hat, being presented with a framed certificate.