A Chinese court has dismissed charges against a man who broke into a neighbor's home multiple times, stealing a bra and pictures, all because he loved her, reports the official XinhuaPolice caught him sneaking out of the neighbor's apartment in November, holding a key to the door, a bra, two photos and an MP3 player, the report says.

A 91-year-old has lost a $887 bet on his life. Arthur King-Robinson bet on odds of 6/1 that he would be dead by the end of the first week of December, a bookmaker says Saturday.

In the Dodds family, traditional board games have gone the way of the dinosaur, and been replaced with one of the hottest new trends: Poker. Once the activity of smoky, back-door clubs and casinos, family participation requires some easy-to-use new inventions, including the DB Dealer, which combines the game's dealer button -- an oversized, round chip marker that denotes which player bets last, the most advantageous betting position -- and the blind timer, an alarm that marks a minimum bet increase, called a blind.

To keep his promise, a New Zealand politician runs naked through the streets on Sunday. He earlier pledged to run naked if he lost an election bet. According to Agence France-Press

Bet he didn't see that one coming! A French amateur psychic's powers are under serious scrutiny after his crystal ball starts a fire that engulfs his apartment. British tabloid The Times