A man holding a baby made a great barehanded catch over the glove of Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez on Tuesday night, prompting a replay review.

With two out and none on base in the second inning at Wrigley Field, Cubs right-hander Jason Hammel fouled off a pitch from Zack Greinke. Gonzalez chased the popup and reached over the rolled-up tarp while trying to make a play, but the man reached out and grabbed the ball with his right hand while carrying a baby sucking on a bottle in his left arm.

The crew of a Winnipeg police helicopter was red-faced Tuesday after accidentally broadcasting their sexually explicit conversation during a routine patrol over the Canadian city to shocked and amused citizens below.

According to a police statement, at around 9:30 pm Monday (0200 GMT) the officers had "inadvertently activated the aircraft's public address system."

Three Americans were convicted at trial Monday with base jumping and reckless endangerment after skydiving off the World Trade Center in the middle of the night nearly two years ago.

New York residents James Brady, 33, Marko Markovich, 28, and Andrew Rossig, 34, were convicted on three counts and face up to one year in prison when they are sentenced in August, prosecutors said.

A 73-year-old man climbed up a high-voltage electricity pylon in southern France and unfurled a banner calling for Charles De Gaulle to be president, forcing authorities to cut the power that supplies Spain, officials said Tuesday.

He took two hours to scale the 50-metre (160-foot) pylon and was sitting only 10 metres away from the 400,000 volt lines that usually export power to Spain.

The Philippine capital's decrepit train network will start issuing certificates of delay to tens of thousands who are late for work because of daily breakdowns, the government said Tuesday.

With only seven trains for half a million passengers, Manila's Metro Rail Transit (MRT) is a commuter's nightmare, and creaking locomotives stop mid-track increasingly frequently.

About 17,000 people set out their mats and stretched into yoga exercises in New York's Times Square Sunday, including the United Nations' leader, to celebrate the first International Day of Yoga.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, dressed in white, joined the yoga gathering late in the morning in one of the most recognizable squares in the world.

Austrian brothers Jurgen and Gerald Melzer were drawn against each other in the opening round of qualifying for Wimbledon on Sunday in what will be the siblings' first professional clash.

Jurgen, 34, is a former world number eight and made the French Open semi-finals in 2010 and whose best performance at Wimbledon was a run to the last 16 in 2010 and 2013.

Los Angeles police say a man's thumb was severed after being attacked with a machete as four men tried to steal his bicycle.

Sgt. John Marroquin said the suspects got out of a green sedan and tried to pull the man off his bicycle early Sunday in the Pico-Union neighborhood.

A cat bit a woman in Germany, sending her into such a rage that she then repeatedly bit and beat her boyfriend, the owner of the pet, police said Sunday.

A police spokesman said that the 26-year-old woman was attacked by her 39-year-old partner's feline in the western city of Hagen in the early hours of Saturday.

Campaigners protesting China's annual dog meat festival, which sees thousands of canines butchered and eaten, were forcibly dispersed by unidentified men Monday as they attempted to rally outside a government office.

About 10 animal rights activists unfurled banners outside the Yulin government headquarters, before a group of 20 men came and chased them off.