Indecent exposure of undergarments, masculine or feminine, will be unlawful in a public place. It would go in the same portion of the city code that outlaws sex in public and the exposure or fondling of genitals.

In a new twist on care for the elderly, thousands of Norwegians are relaxing in the Spanish sun and taking health cures at a growing number of geriatric and rehabilitation centres run by Norwegian municipalities and staffed almost entirely by Norwegians in the Alicante region.

A bullet has been removed from behind the right ear of a US man who went to hospital complaining of a headache. He had woken up with a headache so severe he thought it was caused by an aneurysm. His wife took him to hospital but left when the bullet was found. She was arrested later over the shooting, but said it was an accident.

A man cut off his penis with a knife in a packed London restaurant. The man was then taken to hospital in south London where his condition is stable. It is understood surgeons were unable to reattach his penis.

A yacht is found drifting off the North Queensland coast. The vessel has its engine running, and a table laid for dinner, but there are no signs of any people.

A teenager who was held captive for eight years is reported to have wept inconsolably when she was told the man who kidnapped her and to whom she had to call "master" was dead.

Austrian officials are using DNA tests to see whether a young woman they found is the schoolgirl whose disappearance sparked a huge manhunt eight years ago.

Activity on a volcano intensifies, with continuous clouds of ash, gas and rock fragments spewing from its crater. Thousands of people have been moved from the volcano's upper slopes, but a small number are refusing to leave.

Some children are seduced into taking part in medical experiments with promises of Christmas parties. The children are fed oatmeal laced with slightly radioactive milk as part of a nutrition study for Quaker Oats.

An African pygmy is brought to the United States and exhibited in a cage at the Bronx Zoo in New York as a kind of living illustration for Darwin's "Origin of Species".

Cité-Soleil, in Haiti, despite its optimistic-sounding name, has borne the brunt of the violence. Port-au-Prince’s poorest suburb is a no-go zone even for the blue helmets, unless they are leading a raid to search for weapons. Last month only, 34 people were treated for gunshot wounds, 50% of them are women, children, and the elderly.

A central figure in the case of a mysterious writer comes forward to say that such writer does not exist and that the books published under that name were actually written by his ex girlfriend. She conducted telephone conversations as the writer with unwitting editors, using the voice of a young man with a West Virginia accent.

A train operator says the rush-hour journeys would be lengthened slightly after tight timetables and speeding were blamed for a derailment that killed 107 people.

China cancels the release of a movie citing concern that it could provoke public anger and rekindle anti-Japanese sentiment, reacting to a movie featuring China’s best-known actresses as geishas, which many Chinese consider to be prostitutes.

The bodies of 11 young men, some of them shot repeatedly and bearing marks of torture, are found in a minibus.

Two friends are arrested in connection with the disappearance of a young woman to whom they had given a ride. A criminal case is open into her alleged rape and murder. They are subjected to days of questioning that become increasingly violent and eventually descend into torture. But the young woman turns up alive and unharmed that same day, saying that she had gone to visit a friend without informing her family.

A former traffic police officer suffers several spinal injuries when he jumps out of the window of a police station while being tortured.

A British warship that went to the bottom of the Mediterranean in 1694 with a cargo of coins now worth up to 4 billion dollars, becomes embroiled in a bitter diplomatic dispute that pits Spain against Britain.

The snow-laden roof of an exhibition hall collapses during a pigeon racing show, killing 66 people and injuring 141. Some trapped victims call loved ones on their mobile phones from the ruins of the hall, describing the frozen corpses around them during their last moments alive.

Real state agents and brokers hold gatherings to bring unmarried clients together, while at the same time promoting their business.They say they want to help out ambitious unattached progessionals who have little time to seek out romance.

At 23, a serious and driven performer with washboard abs, winsome looks and a Gene Kelly-like dancing ability, wants nothing less that to break down barriers, build cultural bridges and become the first Asian pop star to succeed in America.

Two top Germany generals are dismissed after allegations of racist abuse by one general’s son, favoritism and misuse of official information. The son, a student at the military academy, was accused of making racist and far-right comments.

A widow’s long quest for justice in Indonesia: in a conference room of the national police headquarters here, Patsy Spier once again relived the attack that robbed her of ther husband on a Saturday afternoon in 2002 in remote Papua province.She described how attackers fired into the convoy carrying her, her husband and eight other Americans.

A teenager found dead in the snow in a field near his home in Barnard Castle on Saturday, was named by the police last night as John Winter, aged 15.

A northern bottlenose whale measuring about 5 meters and weighing up to 7 tons is spotted on a Friday heading upstream the Thames, near the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, London.

A former teenage idol pleads not guilty to drug possession charges in Los Angeles after being arrested for allegedly trying to ride the subway without a ticket. Now 44, he is charged with felony possession of heroin and fare evasion.

A failed policeman sells out his Irish rebel buddy to the British authorities for passage to America. After being caught and marked for execution, he cried: "Isn't there a man here who can tell me why I did it?"

I survived two years of near-starvation, beatings and dengue fever, but dozens of cell-mates died in my arms. From the depths of that madness, I took and oath that if I ever got out, I would fight for justice.

A 20-year-old skinhead burst into a synagogue and stabs eight people before he is wrestled to the floor and disarmed.

A hustling Hollywood native whose charm, flamboyant deal-making and readiness to bend or break rules propel him first to the pinacles of success and probably next will lead him to jail.

The government put into effect one of the more radical attempts to achieve sexual equality: requiring that within the next two years, 40 percent of the board members of the large, publicly traded private companies be women.

Robbers from upper middle class backgrounds, dressed in wigs and dark glasses, briefly take control of a bank and hold several people hostage until the police arrives on the scene. As they attempt to escape, one of the robbers is shot and killed.

It took years for a single mother to drum up the courage to join the growing stream of Mexican women illegaly crossing the border on the promise of a job, in her case working in a meatpacking plant for $5,15 an hour.

A Labour foreign secreatary in the 1960s stumblingly invites a guest in flowing purple robes to dance.
"First, you are drunk," replies the guest. "Second, this is not a waltz, it is the national anthem. And third, I am not a woman: I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima."

Women and girls disappear and suffer violent deaths in a small, border city at a rate more than twice as high as in the rest of the country.

In the days following an earthquake, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, grip a city. The fears delay medical evacuations, drive police officers to quit and ground helicopters and planes.

A young boy refuses to abandon his dream of becoming a pianist.

A man no one has ever been able to photograph, the man without a face, until one day in 1973 someone manages to take his picture during holidays in the Caspian Sea. He turns out to be a very good-looking man, but is he the same man who has been in all these places through his life?

A forlorn young man shows up in a small town in England. Although elegantly dressed, he obviously did not have a shower for days, does not say a word, and seems very much confused. When given a piece of paper to write his name, he draws a piano. When given a piano, he plays wonderfully a strange music, probably his own.

A small ad appears in a local newspaper. Someone is looking for an old professional female model who, after taking some photography sessions in Afganistan for Look Magazine in 1968, accepted the invitation for dinner from a local prince and nothing was heard from her ever since.

A woman turns around in her corridor and sees a myriad of insects forming spirals, and as she takes a closer look, she can see that they actually are telepathic UFOS driven by extraterrestrials, aimed at controlling her mind totally and forever.

A young man decides that a 36 hours day suits him better than a 24 hours day. The day shall have 18 hours and so will the night. So he closes down doors and windows when his night is falling and lights up artificial daytime neon lights whenever he decides it is time for a new day to begin.

An old, world famous film director who expressly prohibits any pictures of him being taken is forced to come out into the public spotlight when another man poses as him to engage young men into sexual relation, by promising them a role in his movies.

The search for Albert Einstein's brains - finally found in a class jar, owned by a downhill scientist.

He was born in Missouri in 1914 and died in Kansas in 1997.

A young woman reads in a newspaper the most horrible piece of information ever: a drug-addicted mother abandoned her two-year old son in her apartment, she just left; no one heard the sobs of the infant, who died four days later. The girl cries over the newspaper.

Her own husband, father of her two sons, was an agent who had for years informed the Stasi about every detail of her life. He probably married her in order to do so.

The Stasi stored a carefully preserved sample of his sweat, in case they should ever need to set police dogs after him.

When reaching adulthood, boys and girls are asked to work as spies for the state. If they accept, they must sacrifice all privacy and personal feelings. Love and friendship only exist for them as a means to access information.

A man suffering from "Flesh Eating Bacteria" is operated and has half of his face removed. Back home and half-faced, he turns on his computer and receives an image showing the lost half of his face, sent by the surgeon. For a brief moment, looking at that picture, his face is complete again.

Idiots rule the world. To occupy a position, one must pass a series of exams to prove one's idiocy.

A young man breaks in the magnificent villas of extremely rich people not to steal, but to pretend, for as long as he can, to be one of them.

After their granny's death, two brothers are at the mercy of a tyrannical mother.