It's a "factual reality" that beans make you break wind, says South Africa's advertising watchdog. A TV advert for sweet onions showed a rugby player eating beans that made him smell "stinky. " The advert claims that "with sweet onions there are no tears, no burn and definitely no stink. "

Gearing up for the upcoming Easter holiday, not everyone is preparing chocolate baskets and painting Easter eggs. One German man has gone to length to sue the Easter bunny for causing him 'bodily harm'. Karl-Friedrich Lentze, from Berlin, has filed a complaint with local prosecutors, accusing it of causing addiction to chocolate which leads to heart attacks, obesity and strokes, according to Ananova. com

Sri Lanka's celebrity elephant, Raja, has fallen ill after eating too many sweets and chocolates given to him as gifts in part of the Buddhist new year celebrations. Thousands of Sri Lankans have paid a visit to Raja, 45, ahead of the new year celebration on Thursday, offering homemade cookies deep fried in coconut oil, chocolates, rice cooked in thick milk and fermented slices of sweet pineapple.

Louisville, KY (AHN)-For those willing to pay a little bit more for premium spirits, the Kentucky Derby will now feature the $1,000 mint julep.

A woman is trying to find the person who bought an eagle statuette at her daughter's moving sale. That's because her son-in-law's ashes are in it. The eagle wasn't supposed to be sold, but Sarah Volpe's daughter, Jane Hanlon, had left it on her fireplace mantle with some of the items she was selling. Hanlon says she doesn't blame her mother. She says it was her own fault she left it out.