A Belgian newspaper reports a local nun's acrobatic dancing with a missionary during Catholic World Youth Day in Germany last weekend earns her a reprimand from her mother superior.

Daily Het Laatste Nieuws

A man forgets his wife at an Italian gas station and does not realize it until six hours after he has driven off.

The couple, traveling with their four-year-old daughter, were on their way back to their home in Germany when they pulled over for gas in the coastal city of Pesaro.

Despite disapprovement by church officials, nine Catholic women were unofficially ordained as priests and deacons near Ottawa, Canada. The ceremony was conducted aboard a tour boat.

Of the nine women, seven were Americans. Two unofficial female bishops from Austria and Germany performed the ordinations.

German police let a nearly naked shopper go home after she told them she was getting groceries in the nude because she lost a spin the bottle contest, a police spokesman in Cologne said on Wednesday.

"We're a tolerant city that is open to the world," said spokesman Burkard Jahn. "She could have been arrested for disturbing the peace, but we decided to let her go home with a verbal warning to dress appropriately next time."

A Berlin grandmother announces she will retire when she turns 64 next year from her 49 year position as a prostitute in the city's diplomatic quarter.

Renate Dolle told Germany's Bild newspaper, "I've got a lot of regular clients."