Egyptian couples file for divorce every six minutes, the state-run statistics bureau reported last week. According to the report, approximately one-third of marriages in the North African nation fail in the first year. The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said that Egyptian courts rule on around 250 divorces daily.

Contrary to common notion that WAGs are nothing but party-loving clothes animals, a recent study conducted among sports wives and girlfriends revealed they are actually serious in their studies. The government-funded Learning and Skills Council (LSC), says most of the so-called "Wags,' the popular acronym for wives and girlfriends of sportsmen, gained at least the equivalent of five good General Certificate of Certified Secondary Education (GCSE).

A new $3 million hangout in Dubai, United Arab Emirates that opened in June will really "chill out" everyone who visits the bar with its freezer-like theme bar made of ice. Chillout, the new Dubai bar and the Middle East's first ice lounge, is set to be the latest destination not only for locals but for tourists as well.

The military has already identified the killers of 14 Marines ambushed by Islamic secessionists in southern Philippines last July 10. But it is still in the dark as to whom among the three wives of one of the Marine casualties will get a scholarship intended for children of fallen soldiers. Local newspapers reported that Corporal Russel Panaga, who was among those beheaded by members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, left three wives, two of whom he sired three children.

Estonia has won both gold and silver at the 12th annual world wife-carrying championships in Finland. Participants braved rain, hurdles and exhaustion to stumble along a 250-metre path with women clinging upside-down to their backs. There were 44 couples from 12 countries competing in the annual event in Sonkajarvi, reports Sky News. The idea for the race came from a Finnish legend, Rosvo-Ronkainen, who made people run through a forest carrying heavy sacks on their backs.