Sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, presided over ceremonies this week where more than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become his 13th wife. Wielding machetes and singing tributes to the king and queen mother, also known as the Great She-Elephant, the girls danced around the royal stadium in the hope of catching the eye of the 37-year-old monarch, Reuters reports.

Fisherman James Lubeck finally found his old wallet that he lost over 39 years ago. After what might seem like the unimaginable, local fisherman Antonino Randazzo found the missing wallet in a netful of cod, flounder and haddock, 25 miles from where Lubeck orginally lost it back in 1966.

The persistence of a pet rabbit saves the life of an Illinois man's pregnant wife. Ed Murphy says his $10 rabbit was unusually noisy one night, banging and jumping up and down in her cage.

The beer brewed by monks at a Belgian abbey is so good, it was voted the world's best. The problem? It soon sold out. The abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in western Belgium is home to 30 Cistercian and Trappist monks who live a life of seclusion, prayer, manual labor-- and brewing frosty suds.

The beer brewed by monks at a Belgian abbey is so good, it was voted the world's best. The problem? It soon sold out. The abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in western Belgium is home to 30 Cistercian and Trappist monks who live a life of seclusion, prayer, manual labor-- and brewing frosty suds.