Chinese officials canceled a plan to keep single-parent teachers from losing their jobs after it resulted in dozens of divorces. The education board in Dandong, in northeastern Liaoning province, planned to cut teachers in primary and middle schools. This prompted 41 teachers at one school to file for divorce last week.

The rare portrait by Hans Holbein, featuring Sir Thomas More and his family, will go on to display at Tate Britain in London this week. The pen-and-ink image, featuring More, his father, wife, three daughters and son, has been in Switzerland since 1529. Hans Holbein the Younger, King Henry VIII's court painter has painted many portraits under More's patronage. Sir Thomas was executed in 1535 for opposing the King's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn.

A man in India tries to keep his drunken divorce a secret, but local Islamic clerics find out and force the couple to separate. The clerics in eastern Orissa state ruled the couple can only remarry if the wife takes another husband for one day. The husband, Ershad, had said the word "talaq" or divorce three times earlier this month. When word spread in their village, clerics ordered them to separate.

A judge refused to issue a posthumous divorce decree to a man who was killed the day before he was to sign the last of his divorce papers. Dr. John Yelenic, 39, was found slain in his Blairsville home on April 13, a crime that has not been solved. The dentist and his wife, Michele, separated in 2002 and had agreed to the divorce and a property settlement.

Debbie Rowe, Ex-wife of Michael Jackson, has filed a law suit against the pop singer, claiming he has failed to pay her what he promised when the two divorced in 1999. The lawsuit which was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Debbie seeks an immediate payment of $195,000 for attorney fees and $50,000 in living expenses so that she can continue pursuing her child-custody case against him. The next court hearing on the matter is slated for July 26.