A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said over the weekend.
Two women entered a farm in the northern village of Eberholzen and started to fill the stockings with manure.
"One of them slipped into the manure tank, right into the cow muck," said a spokesman for local police. "The other one helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off completely naked, the other in her underwear."
"The women can get their clothes back from the local police station - unwashed," the spokesman added.
Price for man's life disappoints
A man who put his life up for auction on eBay found it wasn't worth quite as much as he thought when he settled for around A$100,000 less than his target price.
Ian Usher, 44, held the seven-day auction of all his belongings, including his three-bedroom home in the west Australian city of Perth and a trial for his job at a rug store, after the break-up of his five-year marriage.
Bids had reached as high as A$2.2 million, only for Mr Usher to discover there had been a glitch on eBay's system which allowed the participation of non-registered bidders who had put in bogus offers.
In the end, the winning bidder agreed to pay A$399,300 (€241,000) for all of Mr Usher's worldly goods, which also include his friends, a motorcycle and a jetski.
Mr Usher, who gave regular updates on the auction on his website www.alife4sale.com, now plans to travel in search of a new life.
Paper tiger
China has sacked a number of government officials and arrested a man in connection with a set of fake photographs that local authorities had said were proof of the existence of a highly endangered tiger.
In October, forestry officials in Zhenping in northern Shaanxi province published photos of a tiger in a forest setting, saying they were proof of the existence of the South China tiger.
A local farmer who produced the photos was paid a 20,000 yuan (€1,836) reward.
Nine months later, officials admitted the photos were faked.
Thirteen local officials, including Zhu Julong, deputy head of the province's forestry bureau, and its top wildlife official Wang Wanyun, were sacked.
Zhou Zhenglong, the farmer who claimed to have taken the photo using a digital camera, was arrested on suspicion of fraud, Xinhua said, after police seized a picture of a tiger which he borrowed from a farmer in another village to produce the photos.
Grounded passengers stay on board
Fifty-two passengers on a Chinese airliner whose flight was cancelled due to bad weather refused to disembark and instead spent the night on board before finally leaving to their destination. The passengers boarded for their 8 p.m. (1200 GMT) flight from Beijing to the eastern coastal city of Yantai, but after more than three hours of sitting on the tarmac, the airline cancelled the flight.
"Most of the about 200 passengers disembarked to complete flight transfer procedures, but a Mrs. Shi was one of 52 passengers who refused to get off," the Beijing Morning Post said. "Mrs Shi said she and her colleagues had to get to Yantai for a meeting, they were on a very tight schedule, and could not accept the cancellation of the flight."
At 3 a.m. the airline finally told them they could take a 7.30 a.m. flight to Yantai.
Celebrity lunch sells for $2.11 million
It takes millions to have lunch with someone who controls billions. A bidder agreed to pay $2.11 million to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett, more than triple last year's record for the annual charity auction.
The winner, Zhao Danyang, a general manager at Pure Heart China Growth Investment Fund, won the right to dine with the 76-year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a spokesman at the Glide Foundation said.
Auction proceeds benefit the Glide Foundation, a non-profit group in San Francisco's Tenderloin district that helps serve poor and homeless people.
The five-day online auction concluded on Friday night on eBay Inc.'s <EBAY.O> website. After starting at $25,000, a battle broke out between two bidders in the final stretch of the auction with bid prices jumping seven-fold in two hours.
Italian politicians turn angry
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano appealed for calm from Italy's political class yesterday after friends and foes of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attacked each other with offensive slurs and name-calling.
Tensions have been rising steadily since the new Prime Minister announced legislation to grant himself immunity from prosecution, to suspend some trials and to jail journalists who publish wiretapped phone conversations.
With the weakened centre-left potentially unable to stop Mr Berlusconi in Parliament, the political climate has turned ugly - devolving into name-calling this weekend. La Stampa newspaper declared on its front-page: "It's Insult Time".
"I hope for a more calm and constructive climate," said Mr Napolitano, who as President acts a neutral arbiter.
But opposition leader Walter Veltroni, who lost April elections to Mr Berlusconi, said the time for dialogue with the billionaire media mogul was over.