With literally no food to feed himself and his family, an unemployed man has sewn shut his mouth and locked himself behind an iron mask demanding the government attend to the economic quagmire he's sunk into. According to Luis Miguel Aldana, 52 he adopted the peculiar form of protest five days ago, after being locked out of his apartment in Bogota.

After refusing to scrub her partner's dirty shoes, a 32-year-old-woman died after she was thrown-out of the window by her Egyptian husband, Monday. Liberty Post reported that the cadaver of the woman was found next to a tower block in the city of El Mahalla el Kubra to the north of Cairo.

An Egyptian teacher who wears the niqab, an outfit usually black and covers the entire body including the face and reveals in some cases, only the eyes, paid an unemployed man to wear the clothing and take her driving test. However, when the man showed up to take the test, traffic security officers noticed his shoes and suspected a man was underneath the clothes. The man eventually cracked and confessed that the teacher paid him $120 to take the test for her. The woman, who had been waiting at a near by cafe, was arrested.

n a country where most people live on just a dollar or less a day, an 11-year-old boy who gathers discarded plastic bottles for money returned the equivalent of over $400 USD that he found on the road. Gicoven Abarquez is penniless, malnourished and has never owned a pair of shoes. He works the streets of Dagupan City in northern Philippines to help his parents make ends meet. He is one of the thousands of Filipino boys, some barely in their teens, who go to school and also work collecting discarded plastic containers to sell back to recycling centers.

A French female tourist was stripped of her pants, shoes and socks while she took photographs of an wild orangutan in Malaysia's Semenggoh Wildlife Centre, located on Borneo. The orangutan involved in the incident is named Delima, and roams freely through the wildlife preserve.