A South Korean couple addicted to an internet game about raising a virtual child were arrested for neglecting their real three-month-old daughter and letting her starve to death, news reports said.
The couple spent between four and six hours every day at internet cafes in Suwon, a city just south of Seoul, and bottle-fed their baby only once a day, the Yonhap news agency and other South Korean media reported, citing police.
The couple found their baby dead on September 24 when they returned home after playing online games at a nearby internet cafe all night, Yonhap reported.
"I'm sorry to my daughter and hope she doesn't get sick in heaven," the father was quoted as saying.
Woman's fingers bitten off by bear
A bear bit off a woman's fingers at a zoo after she ignored barriers and warning signs to try to feed the animal, police said yesterday.
The Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, closed after the incident on Friday morning. Police said the 47-year-old woman lost a thumb and a forefinger, and two other fingers were partially severed.
The woman's boyfriend was bitten as he tried to pry the bear's mouth off her hand, but didn't lose any fingers.
A mayor's office statement said alcohol played a factor.
Missionaries not released
Two US missionaries arrested for suspected child kidnapping faced another weekend in a Haitian jail, following a court hearing in Port-au-Prince.
A judge had said earlier that he was likely to release Idaho Baptists Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter soon. He did not publicly explain the delay in releasing them.
Asked if she would be released, Ms Coulter said: "Not today", and appeared to weep after getting into a police vehicle for the drive back to jail, where the pair have been detained since January 29 for trying to leave Haiti with 33 children.
'Lemon law' judgment
A judge in Wisconsin has ordered Mercedes-Benz USA to pay £321,000 in damages and legal fees to a customer who was sold a defective car and not given a refund on time.
Vince Megna, a Milwaukee lawyer who represented the customer, said he believed the judgment was the largest involving a single car under a state 'lemon law' which protects consumers who are sold defective cars.
Mercedes-Benz spokeswoman Donna Boland said the firm, a unit of the German carmaker Daimler AG, was disappointed the judge overturned an earlier verdict in favour of the company.
'PC' anthem U-turn
Canada's Conservative government has backed down over politically correct plans to change a lyric to the national anthem O Canada.
Two days after sparking a national outcry over the plan, the government said it had withdrawn its request to Parliament to consider changing a line in the anthem to make it more gender inclusive.
The government says it will no longer seek to have the lyric 'in all thy sons command' - adopted under 1980 legislation - replaced with the original 1908 line 'in thou dost us command'.
Tiger kills keeper
An animal keeper died after being bitten by a tiger at the Shanghai zoo.
Chinese state media said the man, in his 50s, was found in a critical condition in the tiger's cage and died soon afterwards.
It was not clear what he was doing in the cage.
Casino 'bomber' jailed in US
A man who hijacked a shuttle bus and threatened to blow up a New Jersey casino unless he was paid £2 million was jailed for 25 years.
David Kilkeary, 39, of Crofton, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August, admitting he caused an overnight stand-off with police outside the Showboat Casino-Hotel in Atlantic City in November 2007.
Kilkeary used a pellet gun and fake explosives to take several hostages and keep 100 police officers at bay for six hours before surrendering. About 2,000 patrons were evacuated from the Showboat because of the bomb threat.