A Polish couple living in Germany fell out after tying the knot and decided to end their marriage on the same day.
"He said he never wanted to see her again and wanted an immediate annulment, and she said the same thing," a spokesman for police in Hanover said yesterday.
Right after the civil ceremony, the 50-year-old man began rowing with his bride and tried to cut her hair with a kitchen knife, police said.
The 34-year-old woman called police, who issued the man with a restraining order, which he readily accepted.
Two attempts at a rapprochement later that evening by telephone ended in more shouted exchanges.
Red hot chilli peppers
India's security forces are planning to mix one of the world's hottest chilli powders in hand grenades to control riots and during insurgency operations in the remote northeast.
India's defence scientists say they will replace explosives in small hand grenades with a certain variety of red chilli to immobilise a person without killing him.
Scientists said the chilli found in the country's northeast generates so much heat it was enough to startle a person for a while when used as a weapon.
The bhut jolokia chilli is said to generate 1,000,000 heat units on the Scoville scale - a measure of hotness - at least a thousand times more than a common kitchen chilli.
The chilli will also be used as a food supplement for soldiers deployed in cold weather conditions to raise their body temperatures while scientists are hoping to use a coat of the chilli powder in fences around army barracks as its pungent smell keeps wild animals away.
Pepper spray, which contains a chemical derived from peppers, is another commonly used riot control agent in many parts of the world.
Trains of thought
Service announcements on the London Underground are no longer restricted to "Mind the Gap", but have been broadened to include the words of great thinkers such as Einstein and Goethe.
Passengers on the Piccadilly Line will be able to hear a range of philosophical, political and historical quotes from their drivers as they rattle through rail tunnels deep under the city.
The quotes, compiled by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, are part of a series of arts projects on the subway. Staff are encouraged to use the quotes to talk directly to passengers, building a rapport and adding unexpected wit or insight during the commute, rather than relying on pre-recorded announcements.
Some quotes are "To live is to dream," Friedrich Schiller, "Life is one long process of getting tired," Samuel Butler and "There is more to life than increasing at speed," Mahatma Gandhi.
And most-aptly: "Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre.
Tourists taken on police chase
Operators of an unauthorised New York airport van service that took five French tourists on a high speed chase in an attempt to evade police were charged on yesterday with unlawful imprisonment.
On Tuesday, the operators of the van service - Khaalif Preacher, 27, and Ian L. McFarlane, 57 - were approached by police for "hustling" travellers outside the Air France terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Mr Preacher, the van's driver, and Mr McFarlane drove off, ignoring pleas by the tourists to be let out. Police followed the van "in a marked vehicle with their lights flashing and sirens blaring", prosecutors said.
The van swerved through traffic, sped though stop signs and red lights, and travelled at speeds of 96.5 kph on crowded residential streets.
The men were also charged with assault, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest. If convicted, they face up to seven years in prison.
US politicians confess sins on TV!
With a tearful admission and grovelling apologies, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford yesterday became the latest member of a fast-growing club of US politicians - the penitent sexual wanderers.
During a televised news conference on his return from a secret Argentina getaway, Mr Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair with a "dear, dear friend" and apologised profusely to his wife, family, friends, constituents and seemingly everyone else he could think of.
"I hurt a lot of different folks, and all I can say is that I apologise," he said, fighting back tears repeatedly.
Mr Sanford's admission capped days of uncertainty about the whereabouts of the conservative governor and former congressman, considered in some quarters a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2012. It also made him the latest US politician to face the awkward task of salvaging a career after an illicit sexual affair blew up into public humiliation.
Playing the flute... 35,000 years ago
People have been making music for more than 35,000 years, judging by prehistoric bird-bone flutes excavated in Germany.
Researchers have said they had found a five-hole flute made from the radius bone of a griffon vulture and two fragments of ivory flutes in a cave in the Swabian Jura mountains.
The flutes are at least 5,000 years older than any previous confirmed archaeological examples of musical instruments.
"These finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonised Europe, more than 35,000 calendar years ago," Nicholas Conard of Tuebingen University and colleagues reported in the journal Nature.