After her husband said she would not have any luck gem hunting, a Tennessee woman discovered a 1.30-carat diamond in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park - the world's only publicly operated diamond site where regardless of their value, the public is allowed to search and keep any gems found.

Melissa Lacey of Knoxville said, "I wasn't expecting to find anything and was just picking up pretty rocks."

A rare Philippine green ring snake has smuggled itself into Germany by hiding in a tourist's underwear.

Helga Gurnsteidl, 31, from Nuremburg, Germany said she was returning after a trip to the Philippines when she put her dirty clothes in the washing machine for cleaning.

A mechanic who works for a plumbing company in Pimlico, London was awarded a much-deserved day off by his bosses so he could celebrate his 100th birthday.

Buster Martin, who works as a part-time mechanic and valeter, helping maintain 100 vans for a plumbing company, originally plans on spending his first century birthday drinking beer at his favorite local pub.

Speaking on Malaysia's first ever "toilet expo," deputy premier Najib Razak rallied for stricter laws to require business owners to stringently maintain clean washrooms.

He added that dingy facilities scare away tourists and reflect badly on the country. He said said the cleanliness and beauty of a country's toilets were a measure of how civilized it was.

Italy's highest appeals court rules that forcing a wife to kneel and scrub the house floor is a crime. The court upheld the conviction of man for mistreatment after his wife left him for years of alleged abuse and threats.

The court says, "The husband humiliated and burdened her in every way, to the point of forcing her to clean the floor on her knees as a punishment for the insufficient dedication that in his view the woman put into housework."

The man was ordered to pay compensation to his wife and provide child support for their son. She is now living with her parents. Yet, just a day earlier, another of Italy's courts ruled that calling someone a "faggot" is punishable by law. The court has been criticized in the past for being comprised of conservative macho men. In two controversial rulings, the court found that calling a foreigner "dirty negro" is not always racist and that sexually abusing a teenage girl is less serious if the girl is not a virgin.