Motorcycles could be banned on many Philippines roads. Despite being the most common means of transportation in the Philippines, lawmakers have filed a bill seeking to ban motorcycles on main roads, thoroughfares and national highways in the country.

House Bill No. 3080 filed by Reps. Narciso D. Santiago III (Party-list, ARC) and Marcelino R. Teodoro (1st Dist., Marikina City, Lakas-CMD) establishes guidelines designed to prevent road accidents, particularly those involving motorcycles.

Royal titles to benefit a cause are now for sale: for $180,000, one can become a duke or duchess. The cheapest title is a knighthood, for only $40,000.

The titles are sold online through Nobility.co.uk by David Howe, aka King David of the Isle of Man.

Running on a Russian tank engine, a giant motorcycle dubbed as Led Zeppelin by its creator has been duly acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest motorbike.

The bike weighs four-and-a-half ton and measures 17 feet four inches long by seven feet six inches tall prompting creator Tilo Nieber, to remark, "You don't get much more heavy metal than this."

A 47-years-old Indonesian migrant worker was sentenced by Malaysian court to six months imprisonment for nearly severing her husband's penis because of excessive jealousy Wednesday, police said.

The deputy chief of Johor state's criminal investigations department Che Yussof Che Ngah said Umidah Setu, an Indonesian migrant worker based in Malaysia, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the southern city of Johor Bahru to voluntarily causing harm.

A Japanese man driving a motorcycle severed his right leg after colliding with a concrete highway divider but did not notice the injury until after driving for a few minutes and two kilometers (1.24 miles) away from accident site, the local media in Japan reported on Wednesday. The accident happened at Nishi Ward in the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan.

According to Japan Today, police said Kazuo Nagata, 54, was driving along the Hamana bypass of National Highway Route 1 at about 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday (9:30 p.m., Monday, GMT) when he failed to negotiate a left turn and hit the central divider that severed his right leg about 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) below the knee. Nagata continued driving unaware of the injury and only noticed his missing right leg when he and his friends stopped at an interchange about 1.24 miles from the scene of the accident.