An Estonian man has returned a library book 69 years late, partly blaming a World War II aerial bombing that damaged the library for the late return.Ivika Turkson of the Tallinn Central Library says that last week the man in his mid-80s returned the overdue book - which was checked out on March 7, 1944, while Estonia was occupied by Nazi Germany – along with an apology and an offer to pay a

Jorge Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has been elected pontiff on the fifth ballot on Wednesday following the papal conclave in Rome.He will be known as Pope Francis I and is the 266th Bishop of Rome.Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, said the election was a moment of "great joy".The 76-year old is the first pontiff to come from

A 22-year-old young mother has been arrested of suspicion of child trafficking after allegedly trying to sell her kids for $5,000 on Facebook.Misty VanHorn, allegedly contacted a potential buyer via the social networking site, asking for $1,000 for her 10-month-old and $4,000 for her two-year-old.Police say the mum-of-two, from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, wanted the cash to pay bail for her boyfriend who

Dennis Rodman has arrived in the Vatican to support black Cardinal Peter Turkson to be elected as the next Pope but he appeared unsure about exactly who the Ghanaian is.Cardinal Peter Turkson was among the favourites to become the next Pope and if elected he would be the first black Pope for more than 1,500 years.When asked about the man he was purported to supporting he responded ‘From Africa

Dianna Gay Wright from Australian has appeared in court to give evidence in the trial of co-accused Graeme Kenneth Wright, who is no relation to her.Dianna, who cut off Noel Allan Clark's penis has told the Maryborough Supreme Court she had no idea the man was going to be killed in her home.She was sentenced to nine years imprisonment last year for her involvement in the alleged murder of Mr Clark

Johannesburg, SA - Seven people were arrested in Edenvale early on Wednesday for manufacturing drugs, Gauteng police said.Among them were four foreigners, aged between 25 and 40, and two women, said police spokesperson Katlego Mogale.Police raided a house in Edenvale at 03:00, after a tip off, and found chemicals and equipment, worth about R700 000, used to manufacture drugs.

Violence erupted in Mabeskraal Village outside Rustenburg, North West, SA, in protest against a spate of killings in the area recently.Since December last year, four people in the village have disappeared and were later found dead, their bodies mutilated.Kgosi Molopyane Mabe called an urgent meeting to discuss the apparent muthi (herbal) killings.The meeting, which took place in the village then t

Paul Marshallsea, 62, was hailed a hero has been sacked by his employer.A film of Marshallsea grabbing the shark's tail as it swam towards children was broadcast around the world.He and his wife Wendy, who work for the same children's charity in Merthyr Tydfil, were on sick leave for work-related stress when they took the two month holiday in Australia.After seeing January's footage, trustees of

Kudakwashe Maregedze, 33, from Glen Norah A, Zimbabwe, appeared in court for assaulting wife, Sophia Jiri, 25.He said Jiri was in the habit of wearing ‘provocative’ clothing whose origins he did not know.He claimed she dressed that way to seduce other men as retribution for being trapped in a polygamous marriage.Allegations are that on February 25 2012, Maregedze arrived home early in the even

Nhamo Ngavapfume, 30, of Gotekote village, Zimbabwe allegedly fatally assaulted his 12 year-old daughter, Nyasha Ngavapfume with his fists.Nyasha had tried to restrain him from beating her mother Letwin.Nhamo allegedly reached for a log which he used to attack Nyasha several times on the back. She then collapsed and started bleeding profusely from the nose and the mouth and died soon afterwards.Ma

Crystal Kelley, a surrogate has been shocked by a request from a couple who wanted a fourth child.The drama started when doctors discovered that the baby Kelley was carrying had a cleft lip and palate, a cyst in her brain and serious heart defects. The parents no longer wanted the baby—and they didn’t want her to carry the little girl to term. They wanted the surrogate to have an abortion but

The Vatican reportedly purchased luxury headquarters worth £21million on a Rome apartment block above ‘Europe’s largest gay sauna.’Cardinal Ivan Dias is likely to be redder than most as he prepares to cast his votes for a new Pope to replace Benedict XVI.The 76-year-old currently resides in a plush 12-room first-floor apartment in the complex.A further 18 flats houses dozens of priests from

A 19-year-old student stripped naked in Belfast's Holyland area last month and danced the Harlem Shake.Hundreds of people - most of them students - either looked on in amazement or joined in the web trend that's sweeping the world.Most who took part wore costumes or even fancy dress as they spilled onto the streets to join other revellers.The Ryan is a highly thought of member of the successful

A six-month-old baby was shot dead after being hit five times in a suspected Chicago, US, gangland attack on her father.The girl was shot while her father, believed to have links to the city's gangs, was changing her nappy.Jonylah Watkins died in hospital. Her father, Jonathan Watkins, was also shot and remained critically ill in hospital.Police are scouring the city's South Side district of Woodl

Tunis - A man set himself on fire on Tuesday in central Tunis, an AFP reporter witnessed, hours before the country's lawmakers were to vote on a new government tasked with pulling Tunisia out of a deep political crisis."This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment," shouted the man before immolating himself on Habib Bourguiba avenue in front of the municipal building, accordin