Officials in a Polish town have opposed a proposition to name a playground after Winnie-the-Pooh due to the bear’s unclear gender and immodest clothing.

The matter was debated in a closed-door meeting in the central Polish town of Tuszyn.

Voice recordings of the meeting were leaked to the media in which officials complained that Pooh Bear is immodestly dressed and also lacks a clear gender. One called the bear a “hermaphrodite”.

Naked man attacks through ceiling

An old age pensioner is seriously ill after being attacked by a naked man who crashed through a ceiling at a US airport.

Police said they did not yet have a motive for the bizarre attack on the 84-year-old man in Terminal C of Boston’s Logan Airport.

A 26-year-old man has been held on suspicion of offences including attempted murder, mayhem, assault and battery on a person over 60 and committing a lewd and lascivious act.

‘Savage’ shooting of crows at night

A Macedonian environmental group is calling for the prosecution of a hunters’ association behind a midnight massacre of crows inside the country’s fourth-largest city, allegedly after residents complained that the birds’ droppings were spoiling their cars.

Stole Velkovski, head of the Anima Mundi group, told The Associated Press that it is illegal to shoot wildlife in inhabited areas or at night, adding that the hunters had endangered human lives too.

Hundreds of crows were killed in the southern city of Prilep. A group statement deplored the “savage” shootings of what it defended as “intelligent, sociable, peaceful and non-aggressive ... and not birds of ill-omen.”

Mustang on top of the world

Bosses of the Ford motor company have shown off their new yellow Mustang model – on the 112th floor of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

A team of six engineers travelled with the special Mustang from Ford’s world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States, to Dubai aboard an Emirates Airlines flight.

Once the car arrived in Dubai, it was transported to the base of Burj Khalifa and carefully separated into six sections that could be transported to the 112th level via the building’s lifts. The team re-assembled the vehicle over approximately 12 hours.

Missing cat found 3,700km away

A New Mexico woman’s missing kitten has been located in Maine, although exactly how the feline made the 3,700 kilometre trip remains a mystery.

The female kitten, named Spice, was turned into the Animal Refuge League in Westbrook earlier this month by a man who found her inside a duffle bag. Spice’s owner was tracked through an implanted microchip to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The owner, who did not want to be identified, said she’s never been to Maine and does not know anyone from Maine. Spice, meanwhile, remains in Westbrook because the owner cannot afford to fly her home.