A runaway ostrich that eluded police caused severe damage after attacking a Mercedes during a three-hour rampage.

"Somehow it got out of its pen. We sent two patrols after it, but in the meantime it caused some damage to the bonnet and bumper of a Mercedes before we caught it," a police official in Cyprus said.

Luxury car maker Mercedes loses a case in German court brought by an overweight man who says his heft caused multiple breakdowns in the car.

The court ruled that Mercedes must release the insurance salesman from a car lease deal after a dispute over whether he was too heavy to drive the luxury vehicle, Bild newspaper reports Tuesday.

The Nation newspaper reported an 18-year-old Thai gave birth in the passenger seat of a Mercedes Benz which was doing 85 miles per hour.

Juthamas Srimongkol was only seven months pregnant when she went into labor Wednesday. She was raced to the hospital in her father-in-law's vehicle, when she delivered her son 12 miles away from the hospital.