Former Microsoft software developer Charles Simonyi is set to become a space tourist for a visit to the International Space Station (ISS), the orbital tourism firm Space Adventures reported. Simonyi, 58, will ride a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS where he will stay in fairly low star accommodation for a week.

A national outcry to keep the public toilets clean on the tiny island-state of Singapore has been voiced by its citizens, according to a national survey released on Tuesday. A high degree of public dissatisfaction was expressed in the survey, despite fines for filthy toilets and national campaigns to keep them clean.

A Singapore teen's enthusiastic guitar playing ended tragically when it caused him to fall to his death. Li Xiao Meng, 16, was mimicking a rock star while bouncing on his bed. He jumped so hard that he flew out of a third floor window, reports Reuters citing The Straits Times.

London, England (AHN) ABC's hit show, "Desperate Housewives", will be shown in China starting Monday.

Tourists on their way to Germany's Sachsenhausen concentration camp museum were greeted by women giving a Hitler salute and singing a neo-Nazi song. Prosecutors said Thursday the 18- and 19-year-old women have been arrested. It is illegal in Germany to use Nazi symbols or express Nazi ideas, reports Reuters