An almost 40-year mystery is solved Friday when authorities rule that an Australian prime minister who disappeared Dec. 17, 1967 had drowned and was not assassinated or taken by a Chinese submarine. Harold Holt disappeared while swimming in the ocean in the southern state of Victoria after serving almost two years as prime minister.

An air traffic controller who overslept and failed to report to duty on time caused a Qantas Airways domestic flight to delay its landing in Australia's capital. The plane circled over Canberra for 20 minutes until the senior controller who was due to start work on the day's first shift at 5. 30 a. m. Wednesday arrived, Reuters reports.

Three men set fire to their car while trying to steal fuel from a New Zealand farm on Monday. Police say the men siphoned diesel into a petrol-driven vehicle. When their car would not start, they examined the fuel pipe using a cigarette lighter, Reuters reports.

The art world is furiously debating the ethics of displaying a sculpture made with the pickled head of a dead fetus attached to a seagull's body that was exhibited at a Swiss art museum. Berne's Museum of Fine Arts removed the piece from a Chinese art exhibition earlier this month after a complaint that it was disrespectful to the dead, and following concerns its grisly appearance might traumatize visiting schoolchildren, Reuters reports.

A 31 year-old man has been arrested in Berlin, Germany after being busted while scratching large penis-shaped gouges into the paint of two cars. The man has been under investigation for vandalizing around 330 vehicles in the region over the last few months that had also been marked with the same penis insignia.