After being berated by her parents who find her 'language' too difficult to understand, a schoolgirl has come up with a guide to teenage slang so her parents could understand her better. After writing "The A-Z of Teen Talk," 13-year old Lucy van Amerongen, from Box in Gloucestershire, is now "stoked" (very happy) because sales of her "nang" (cool) book are "owdish" (excellent).

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.

A 77-year old pensioner was almost banned from a social club after several members complained he was farting too much with utter disregard to his colleagues. Maurice Fox, admitted he had a problem with breaking wind too often but was quick to add he was "much better" after switching from cider to bitter

Eagerly wanting to help raise funds for her village football team, a 102-year old woman agreed to pose nude for a charity calendar along with 11 other ladies. Draped with a pink cloth around her shoulders, Nora Hardwick, posed behind the bar of the Ermine Way pub in Ancaster, Lincolnshire, as the calendar's Miss November.

A posh restaurant in New York has unveiled a $26,135 Dessert making it the world's most expensive dessert. Stephen Bruce, owner of Serendipity 3 in Manhattan's Upper East side, said pudding called the Frrrozen Haute Chocolate, is concocted using a blend of 28 rare, exotic cocoas before being topped with whipped cream, and sprinkled with 23-carat edible gold dust and a La Madeline au Truffle.