A innovative Japanese PR company is employing women to 'rent' out their legs as advertising space in a bizarre new trend.Absolute Territory PR claims the number of women taking part is increasing by the day.The company takes its name from the Japanese phrase 'zettai ryouiki koukoku' (absolute territory), which refers to the exposed flesh between a knee high sock and a skirt.Participating women get

A couple eating a romantic meal by candlelight reportedly found a five-inch long dead bird in their salad.James and Jasmine Watson made the grisly find after dishing up a pre-packed baby leaf salad with their steak and chips.Mr Watson started tucking in before spotting the soggy remains on his plate.Tesco said the bird was a Blackcap European warbler – usually found in Spain and Italy – and of

A homebuyer in China spent £20,000 doing up an apartment only to learn that the place he’d bought was the empty shell across the hall.Gui Lizhong was sold flat 4-2 in a new development in Chongqing, China before the numbers were on the doors.He only realised he had mistakenly decorated 4-1 when Long Nengyun turned up and produced paperwork showing he was the owner.‘Why are you staying here? I

Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail by the Pretoria Magistrate's Court following his arrest for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, last Thursday.Magistrate Desmond Nair granted Pistorius bail when the four-day bail hearing resumed on Friday afternoon."The accused has made a case to be released on bail," he said.The court had heard submissions from both the

The body of school girl Angie Mabotho of Masakeng, South Africa who went missing on Monday while walking home from school with two friends has been discovered.On the day as they were walking her friends said when they looked back, she had disappeared.Residents, police and teachers conducted a search for the girl.Angie’s body was then found with the help of police dogs and a helicopter.It’s all

Overzealous airport security had three year-old Lucy Forck who suffers from spina bifida, in tears after they took her teddy bear away and told her parents her wheelchair must be searched.The little girl was so upset that she said: “I don’t want to go to Disney World,”Outraged parents Nathan and Annie were stunned by the way airport officials handled the screening and decided to film the inc

Two lovers in China who were banned from seeing each other by their parents brought traffic to a standstill when they stripped off and threatened to leap from a bridge.The couple kept police and rescuers at bay for more than two hours as they stayed locked in a passionate clinch on a flyover 30ft above a motorway in China."Our parents say we can't be together but we want to show people we have no

Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a Nigerian student, Vitalis Dike, studying in Malaysia, for drug trafficking.Dike was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, during the screening of passengers bound for Malaysia via a Qatari flight.The suspect recently escaped death in the Asian country when he was arrested for being in possession of 1.430kg of m

Australia - A former New South Wales doctor who unnecessarily removed a woman's genitals has had his jail sentence increased by 18 months after a Crown appeal.Graeme Reeves was jailed in 2011 for at least two years after being found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Carolyn DeWaegeneire in 2002.The 60-year-old was also found guilty of assaulting two other female patients and

A UK widow has hugged the driver who killed her husband and urged him to "get on with his young life".Patricia Machin's husband Gerrard died after being run over by Brian Williamson, who was convicted of causing death by careless driving, BBC reports.Mr Machin, 77, was knocked down as he walked near his home in Bournemouth.On the day Mr Williamson was given a suspended prison sentence, Mrs Machin

Twelve people died this Wednesday and 10 others were seriously injured in an accident involving a bus and a road maintenance lorry near Gweru.The accident occurred at the 55 kilometre peg along the Gweru - Bulawayo highway, just before the tollgate.10 people died on the spot, two others died on admission at Gweru General Hospital while 52 sustained varying degrees of injuries.Of the eight who were

Tourists Michael and Sabrina Baugh, both 27, have told of their horror after a dead body was found in a tank holding the hotel water they had been drinking and bathing in for days. They had complained to staff at the rundown Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday that water was only dribbling out of their taps. When an engineer examined the cisterns on the roof, he discovered the body of C

Samson Makhumbula of Kasibhejane in Mpumalanga, South Africa once had a good job and was a respectable man with a loving wife and kids.But now the 78 years old man sleeps in a tiny shack built next to the same bedroom he used to share with his wife.Things took a downward turn after he lost his job in 2005.It is believed that he sunk into a deep depression after that.Emmah Magagula (54) said Samso

Matabeleland South Provincial acting police spokesperson Sergeant Nkosilathi Sibanda confirmed the arrest of David Andrew Joseph Bernard (37) and Guide Ncube (28) both from South Africa.The two came to Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Border Post. The two South African men were arrested in Esigodini area in the Umzingwane District for illegally entering Adams Farm and taking photographs at the grav

Joseph Ncube (54), of Old Line in Brunapeg,  Plumtree, Zimbabwe assaulted a neighbour after accusing him of owning goblins.The neighbour later died in hospital and Ncube has appeared in court facing murder charges.He was not asked to plead when he appeared before Plumtree magistrate, Mr Gibson Mandaza.He was remanded in custody to 1 March and was advised to apply to the High Court for bail.Th