Can men be taking to eyebrow-grooming?

British men are becoming increasingly interested in having their eyebrows professionally groomed, according to Debenhams department store which plans to hold men-only "guybrow" nights. Men, it said, now make up 40 percent of the visitors to its brow bars, double the proportion of a year ago.

Kate Winslet, Michelle Obama make People's best-dressed

British actress Kate Winslet lead the pack of People magazine's 10 best-dressed women of 2009, with U.S. first lady Michelle Obama chosen for "best accessible glamour." Although the list does not have numerical ranking, Winslet, 33, who won an Oscar in February for playing a dour Nazi in "The Reader," was deemed to be the best-dressed woman on the red carpet on 2009 "with her unique brand of sexy sophistication, modern Hollywood glamour and those enviable curves."

City advertises porn on website by accident

Authorities in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen accidentally advertised porn among the services on offer for residents on its website. "It was a mistake," said a spokesman for the city authorities Tuesday. "There was never any intention of the city providing pornography as a service."

Town left in the dark for two months

A power outage has knocked out the lights and services in a small Angolan town for two months, a local official said, despite the country's multi-billion dollar investments in new hydro-power projects. The outage was caused by a generator malfunction in the town of Quipeio, about 70 km (45 miles) south of the city of Huambo, said Frederico Saude, a local administrator, adding that authorities were still trying to fix the problem. With numerous powerful rivers crossing the country, Angola has tremendous potential for generating electricity but the country is still struggling to rebuild several dams that were wrecked during three decades of civil war, which ended in 2002.

Hungry for culinary greatness, nation sees Michelin stars

Sweden, home to a "smorgasbord" that includes items such as meatballs and pickled herring, said it wants to put itself on the gourmet food map with a plan to become "Europe's new culinary nation." The Nordic nation of 9 million gained fame in the kitchen throughout the 1970s and 1980s thanks in large part to the Muppet Show's Swedish chef, who tossed about pots and pans entertaining children and even adults with his nearly incomprehensible "Swenglish."