The Associated Press

When it was originally sent, her daughter, Sheri, was starting an opera career in Germany. The postcard told her mother how she fell in love with Europe and that she would be in Paris soon.

Nayade Elbing, 28, and her husband Arnold had been trying to have children for several years and had consulted doctors in the hope of scientific help in their quest.

After making love at home, Elbing and her husband visited their local entertainment park in Hassloch, Germany and rode the Expedition GeForce.

The world's strongest beer has been developed by a German brewer. It is so strong, that the brewer suggests consumption by a shot glass rather than a cold mug. The potent drink has an alcohol content of a staggering 25.4 percent.

Bavarian brewer Harald Schneider, who lives in southern Germany where beer is a strong tradition, says his beer fermented for 12 weeks for an alcohol content twice that of the country's strongest known beers.

The world's strongest beer has been developed by a German brewer. It is so strong, that the brewer suggests consumption by a shot glass rather than a cold mug. The potent drink has an alcohol content of a staggering 25.4 percent.

Bavarian brewer Harald Schneider, who lives in southern Germany where beer is a strong tradition, says his beer fermented for 12 weeks for an alcohol content twice that of the country's strongest known beers.

A 31 year-old man has been arrested in Berlin, Germany after being busted while scratching large penis-shaped gouges into the paint of two cars.

The man has been under investigation for vandalizing around 330 vehicles in the region over the last few months that had also been marked with the same penis insignia.