With a curved stick in one hand, a five-year-old Nigerian pre-schooler staggers as she tries to steady what's been slung from her shoulder: a drum and many generations of history.

"The children need to carry on our culture, our tradition, and you need to catch them young," Aralola Olamuyiwa, popularly known as Ara, said after giving an hour-long lesson at a Lagos nursery and primary school on the talking drum.

As Italy's austerity measures hit home, the "aperitivo" is on the rise with more and more Italians heading for lavish happy hour buffets instead of traditional sit-down restaurants to save money.

Drinks priced at between six and 10 euros ($8 and $13) in a growing number of bars give customers unlimited access to a range of snacks ranging from crisps and mini-pizzas to elaborate sandwiches, pasta dishes and meat platters.

A city in northern Taiwan will run an innovative scheme to keep its streets clean by encouraging residents to collect dog pooh for a chance to win gold.

New Taipei City, which surrounds the capital, will in July offer residents who collect canines' waste the chance to enter a lucky draw, the United Evening News newspaper reported Saturday.

A moose caused transport chaos in Oslo Saturday when it ran on to a main highway then into a train tunnel, halting road and rail traffic, before it was shot dead, police said.

"The moose has now been shot inside the rail tunnel," Tor Groettum of the Oslo police told Agence France Presse after a drama lasting more than two hours.

Heir to the British throne Prince Charles had a light-hearted go at presenting the weather on BBC television Thursday, predicting a miserable spate of rain and snow for Scotland.

Looking straight into the camera as he and his wife Camilla tried out the job during a tour of BBC Scotland's studios, Charles, 63, read the bulletin confidently and even added a few of his own personal flourishes.

So you're a teenage girl and you're bewildered by boys. Who better to ask than Don Draper, or at least the actor who plays the 1960s ad man on television's "Mad Men?"

Rookie (www.rookiemag.com), the girls-only website curated by teen fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson, invited Jon Hamm -- looking world-weary in a three-day stubble and red T-shirt -- to appear in its latest "Ask A Grown Man" segment.

Republican Mitt Romney took the White House race into uncharted waters Thursday, suggesting he would like to challenge President Barack Obama to a bit of waterskiing.

"I don't think I'll play the president a round of golf but I'll be happy to take him through a waterski course," the presumptive presidential nominee said on Fox News when asked whether he was as "hip" as the commander-in-chief.

A New Zealand churchgoer became so enraged that the dishes had not been done following a Sunday service that she ripped off part of a fellow parishioner's earlobe, a report said Friday.

The attack occurred during a meeting of church members who have known each other for about 10 years, the Manawatu Standard newspaper said.

Rock icon Morrissey called on Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday, ahead of a Manila concert, to send what the star described as Manila Zoo's long-suffering elephant into retirement.

The British ex-singer of alternative rock group The Smiths said Mali, 37, deserved a reprieve from a lifetime of confinement.

Paris, the City of Lights, is also the city with the most expensive club sandwich in the world, according to a global survey released Wednesday by an online travel service.

Hotels.com said it price-checked club sandwiches at more than 750 hotels in 26 cities in Asia, Europe, North America and South America to help travelers size up the affordability of different national capitals.