A woman jumped into the polar bear cage at the Berlin Zoo Friday morning and survived an attack by one of the bears.

Zookeepers were feeding the animals, one of which bit the intruder on her arms and legs, but zoo staff managed to stave off the bear. The woman is recovering at the Virchow hospital in Berlin, a Russian news service, Novosti reported.

A 22-year-old Russian man sustained only minor injuries after jumping out of a fifth-story window twice after a drinking binge.

The jumper, known as Alexei, drank three bottles of vodka with two friends. After drinking, his wife watched as he opened their kitchen window and leapt out of their fifth-floor apartment, Novosti, a Russian news service reported.

An American space tourist, astronaut and cosmonaut returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

The Soyuz capsule landed at 11:16 a.m. Moscow time in Kazakhstan's steppe, a source in the Russian Federation's Mission Control Center told Itar-Tass. Aboard were Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, astronaut Michael Fincke of the U.S. space agency NASA, and software billionaire Charles Simonyi.

A Romanian groom is trying to sell advertising space on his wedding-day necktie to help cover wedding costs.

Tudor Chora, 26, from Sibiu, Transylvania, is offering advertisers the option to place their company logo on the tie he'll wear at his wedding. Space on the upper part of the tie is for sale for 20 euros, the center for 15 euros and the bottom part for 10 euros, Novosti, a Russian news service, reported.

Sailors aboard a cargo ship heading from Kamchatka to Vladivostok in Russia's far east saved a fox they spotted that was stranded on an ice floe.

"The fox may have been hunting a seagull in strong winds," the ship's captain, Vladimir Popov, told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. "She was lucky that we came along."