India has finally come of age and finally abolished a 93-year-old law banning women from tendering bars and entertaining guests. The Supreme Court of India on Thursday annulled the 1914 statute, giving women the equal opportunity to enter bartending, one of the more lucrative jobs in the India's thriving economy.

acau casino mogul and billionaire Stanley Ho bid a staggering $330,000 for a giant white truffle at auction Saturday, beating the offers of U. K. -based artist Damien Hirst and Sheik Mansoor Bin Zayed al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi. The truffle, weighing 1. 5 kilograms, is now considered the world's biggest besting the 1. 29-kg truffle found in Croatia in 1999, which holds the Guinness World Record.

A hotel in Portland is giving out silly hats to its customers who go outside for a smoke. Clifton Hotel owner Chaz Charlton, 41, said she came up with the idea after being refused permission by local authorities for a smoking shelter for fear that the shelters could get blown away by sea gales.

Egyptian security forces arrested a man who committed acts of fraud against at least 900 Egyptians and took over 120 million Egyptian pounds ($22 million) from them, after being on the run for weeks. The accused was arrested in a 2 star hotel in downtown Cairo, were had been hiding for two days. Abdullah Kamel Mohamed, 50 years-old, sold the apartments in his residential building in Giza to over 900 people and took the 120 million pounds from them after having given them false and illegal contracts.

Just days before their match against Romania, the Russian national rugby team are scrambling to for spare shoes after thieves reportedly stole have stolen several of their players' boots and other sporting gears. According to the payers of the Russian team, nine pairs of boots and other gear disappeared from the team's hotel in Bucharest during a power cut.