A man threw a bucket of red dye into Rome's Trevi fountain in front of astonished crowds Friday.

The fountain, which normally runs on a closed cycle, was left gushing red water. It was briefly shutdown in order for technicians to restore normal clear water flow.

Iran has woven the world's largest carpet which is the size of a soccer field, the AFP reported on Tuesday.

The AFP reported that the wool carpet measures 5,626 square meters (60,546 square feet). The United Arab Emirates ordered it for $5.8 million to be used in a mosque in its capital Abu Dhabi named after UAE founder and president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan.

When a drunk German man, identified only as Wolfgang H, found no parking place for his horse, he used a bank's automatic teller machine for that purpose.

The horse's owner apparently drank a bit too the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank's heated foyer. Talking to the Bild newspaper, the 40-year-old machinist said he had "a few beers" with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin.

One woman is lucky to have escaped injury after a piece of an airplane crashed into the roof of a home near Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois.

A 12-inch disc from an engine turbine wheel fell only 2 feet from Dorothy Gohn's bed, while she was laying there sleeping. Authorities from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) say Gohn wasn't injured in the accident.

An Australian wildlife worker was called to pull a 7-foot python out of a septic tank, after a plumber found it hiding in a woman's toilet.

Peter Phillips, a wildlife officer for the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Service, said in a statement released by the Northern Territory government, "The ... resident originally called a plumber because her toilet was blocked. I arrived to see a large python head peering out of the toilet bowl."