Malaysia's outspoken former leader Mahathir Mohamad now runs a Japanese-style baker's shop. The 80-year-old politician is chairman and controlling shareholder of a firm operating a business called "The Loaf" serving bread and pastries. Mahathir owns a 51 percent stake in a company called M&M Consolidated Resources Sdn Bhd. It is investing three million ringgit ($817,000) in the venture and a Japanese partner owns the remaining 49 percent stake.

Prisoners at Tihar Jial are earning their wages as authorities have focused their energies on creative activities. The inmates are making recycled paper items like bags and file covers and preparing biscuits, cakes, bread, pickles and potato chips on jail premises. The Tihar Jail Bakery School, popularly known as TJ's is selling the stuff at reasonable price in the market.

A Japanese restaurant has come up with a fried whaleburger to attract the younger set. BBC reports that the sandwich, which features fried whale meat nestled in a bun with salad greens and lashings of mayonnaise and ketchup-based sauce, is the creation of a small whale restaurant in the town of Wada, about 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Tokyo.

A Slovakian woman found a condom as she cut into a loaf of freshly baked bread. Petra Zeleznikova, who resides in Zilna says, "We had just sat down to eat the bread which I had bought that morning from the local supermarket when I saw something rubbery inside it. When I pulled it out it was a condom. "