Thailand's government on Wednesday blocked the popular Web site YouTube because of a short film mocking the country's king. The 44-second clip shows pictures of feet over a picture of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Feet are considered dirty and offensive in Thailand. The Thai national anthem is played as the film's soundtrack.

After waiting for nearly a decade, workers at an Amsterdam zoo are finally celebrating the birth of a baby beast. And the credit goes to Akili, a male gorilla imported from a German safari park. Akili pleased the employees at Artis Zoo Tuesday morning, after a healthy baby gorilla was born to a female beast named Binti. The reason for the amusement is that previous efforts by zookeepers to mate their female gorillas with two other males had failed.

A lawyer in the Indian city of Bhopal has filed a Public Interest Litigation case against Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan for their kissing scene in an Indian movie, accusing them of obscenity. The lawyer, Shailendra Dwivedi of Indore, near Bhopal, the capital of central Madhya Pradesh state, said the kissing scene in the movie, titled "Dhoom 2," degrades the position and dignity of Indian women and sets an obscene example for youth.

A 15-year-old girl from Romania is to undergo surgery after swallowing her toothbrush while imitating "extreme" moves from adult films. Reports identify the girl as Andreea V from Falticeni, in Suceava county in Romania. She went to the A and E hospital and told doctors she had accidentally swallowed her toothbrush.

A snake struck man from Rockvale has discovered that a first-aid scene after a snake bite in films may not hold any good in real life. Mike Edwards was working on his farm near Rockdale on Saturday when a timber rattlesnake bit one of his index fingers. The standard snakebite scene in many Hollywood movies shows the victim applying a tourniquet to the limb and then cutting the wound and sucking out the venom.