Austrian ski instructors in Arlberg region have agreed to bare it all after students ask them to release a naked calendar. It was reported that 24 male and female instructors stripped their clothes off and braved the Alpine cold over 6,000 feet above sea level to pose for the Ski Instructors Calendar.

A court orders Salsa instructors in Hong Kong to return $8 million to a well-known banker for lessons she never received. Monica Wong, 61, agreed to pay $15. 4 million to dance teachers Mirko Saccani and his wife, Gaynor Fairweather, for unlimited private lessons and competitions from 2004 until 2012. Wong is the head of HSBC's private banking unit in Asia and the daughter of a shipping tycoon.

An anti-racism group is angry over a French dictionary's definition of colonization, claiming it glorifies the country's brutal legacy. The widely-used reference book, Petit Robert 2007, says: "To colonize: colonizing a country in order to enhance it, exploit its wealth. " The MRAP group said the dictionary editors should take into account all "experiences, suffering and damages caused by this crime against humanity. "

Nevada's Clark County School District may be some 400 teachers short this year, but it did add to its coffers thanks to the generosity of a Las Vegas strip club. Scores Las Vegas raised $2,500 for the district by holding an event called "Detention," in which strippers were dressed as teachers, schoolgirls and librarians. An advertisement said, "It's back to school time and you know what that means. Detention for everyone who has been bad!"

Three teens broke into Portage High School to "wreak havoc. " Police Capt. Terry Swickard can only say "talk about senseless," as officers arrest Phillip Kress and Douglas Dabill, both 18, on felony burglary charges.