An Italian football team is now the subject of criticism from local official after it had signed a sponsorship deal with an escort agency.

Under the terms of the deal, Trentino 1921 is to receive USD $14,200 which provides that the name of escort agency Casa Bianca be posted on the club website.

A lovelorn Australian farmer who headed to West Africa last month seeking a love match is glad to be home, albeit without his bride by his side.

Des Gregor, 56, went to Mali to pick up the bride he had met over the Internet and pocket the promised dowry of $85,000 in gold bars to marry her.

Tony Blair was brought back to reality Wednesday when there was no car or bodyguards to meet his train.

The former British Prime Minister and his wife Cherie Booth were left waiting for several minutes at Darlington station after his train from King's Cross, London, arrived 40 minutes late.

It came as a surprise for an elderly upstate New York woman when she pulled into her driveway Wednesday afternoon and saw an angry bull raging towards her. Mabel Washburn immediately drove to a nearby relative's home in rural Washington County and called police for help on Wednesday afternoon.

However, on returning to her home near the Vermont border a few minutes later, she saw the bull was still there. It became very angry and rammed its horns into her Ford Escort a couple of times.

Officers had to tackle a man to the ground over a greasy hamburger from McDonalds.

Thomas Lee Reagan, 45, ordered double cheeseburgers from a McDonald's in Hudson. He complained that the burger was too greasy and demanded a refund.