Three teenage muggers from Hamburg, Germany are now in hospital after committing the mistake of trying to steal the mobile phone of a junior kick-boxing and karate champion.

In his report to police, Pauli Borchardt, 17, said he was on his way home from a friend's house in Hamburg, when the three teenagers, all aged 17, blocked his path and demanded for his mobile phone.

A 75-year-old retired Romanian woman used some old-fashion karate moves in order to scare aware burglars who were invading her home.

The woman, Anica D, told police she was sleeping when the burglar broke into her house and attacked her.

Three Singaporeans on a mission to find a karate legend are found huddled together inside an abandoned car on a north Japanese mountainside.

Local media reports say one of the boys told Hirosaki police his dying father had told his group to search for the master. Thirteen people set out from Singapore but one group was lost on the slopes of Mount Iwaki.