Getting away from their football-mad men, women and children are finding solace during the World Cup from a series of "soft" films. The AFP reports a number of cinemas in the northwestern city of Banja Luka said they were putting on a special selection of romantic flicks and cartoons to accommodate the World Cup "refugees".

Apparently, karaoke is seen more in Vietnam than just a recreational thing. According to Vietnamese newspaper, Tien Phong, 21 officials from Petrovietnam's financial arm PVFC are expected to write "self criticisms" for not participating in karaoke on Saturday night.

After a woman in Pakistan found out that her husband wanted to leave her for a fourth wife, she took matters into her own hands by beheading him, chopping up his body and then dumping the parts in a sewerage drain. Local Police say Majeeda Khatoon killed her husband, a well-off building contractor, while he was asleep, and cut his body into seven pieces with the help of two male relatives in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, a suburb on the outskirts of Karachi, according to Reuters.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AHN)-According to a news report, a 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love.

North Korea is singing the praises of female revolutionaries on International Women's Day. The official KCNA news agency says Wednesday that many people are singing songs such as "Song of coast artillery women" and "A girl innovator dashing like a steed. "