Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov fired a key cabinet minister for being a bad father after one of his sons was involved in a road accident, state media reported Saturday.

Energy and Industry Minister Yarmukhammet Orazgulyev was sacked after his son was involved in a traffic accident with the children of other high-ranking Turkmen officials.

North Korea is handing out free uniforms to all students in the communist state to celebrate the 100th birthday of its deceased founder Kim Il-Sung, Pyongyang said Saturday.

The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said free uniforms were being distributed to all students of elementary, middle and high schools and universities to mark the "Day of Sun" on Sunday.

Sprawling in the sun or barking and chasing cars, stray dogs have become part of urban life in Bulgaria but after a pack mauled a U.S. university professor to death, the mood of tolerance is over.

The 87-year-old man, who chose to spend his retirement in his native Bulgaria, was attacked in a Sofia street late last month by some 25 dogs who knocked him to the ground, tore at his face and bit his legs and arms to the bone.

A desperate man in Munich fled onto a balcony and called police for protection after his insatiable companion for a one-night stand refused to let him leave her flat, police said Thursday.

The 43-year-old man had met a woman four years his senior in a bar in the southern German city on Monday and she took him back to her apartment for sex, a police spokesman said in a statement.

Flights at Britain's second largest air hub, London's Gatwick Airport, were disrupted on Friday when a hot-air balloon strayed into its airspace, a spokeswoman said.

Five departing flights were affected after airspace was shut on safety grounds at the airport in Sussex, to the south of London, she said.

A diehard Colombian fan of Barack Obama has turned his home into his version of the White House and hopes to welcome the U.S. president with a gift when Obama attends a summit in nearby Cartagena this weekend.

Silvio Carrasquilla, an Afro-Colombian and a former mayor of the northern town of Turbaco, says he hopes to present the U.S. leader with a young donkey named "Demo." The donkey is the symbol of Obama's Democratic Party.

Wissam Mohammed Kazem took off in south Iraq in a homemade plane, but his love of aviation ultimately landed him in jail for making the aircraft without approval.

Another Iraqi ended up in trouble 30 years ago over a homemade helicopter, indicating that then, as now, it is not in one's interest to make and pilot flying machines at home here.

Japanese keepers looking for a penguin on the lam in Tokyo have stood down their month-long search but say they hope the bird's impending adulthood will give it away.

Staff at Tokyo Sea Life Park said Thursday they are no longer combing riverbanks every day looking for any sign of the creature, which fled captivity in early March.

French presidential candidates woo voters; a YouTube comedic duo has launched a parallel campaign of songs to poke fun at politics, posting a new video online each Sunday.

The high-energy, shaggy-haired duo sits cross-legged on the pavement in the videos, pounding at their instruments and bopping their bodies to as they sing songs that are equal parts humor and political critique.

Strangers donated the beautifully embroidered wedding dress, the two rings, the honeymoon time-share in Aruba. They acted quickly, too, because the bride was dying of cancer. Or so she said.

The state attorney general's office announced Tuesday that Jessica Vega, 25, has been indicted on charges of fraud and grand larceny for getting her "dream wedding" by falsely claiming she was dying of leukemia.