Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was released from a Seoul hospital after recovering from stomach pains, a hospital spokesman said.
Mr Kissinger's condition was "not serious" while he was being treated at Seoul's Severance Hospital and he had recovered after a day of medical treatment, spokesman Han Jin-ho said. Mr Han said Mr Kissinger didn't receive any major treatment like surgery, but didn't elaborate.
The 86-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate arrived in the South Korean capital earlier in the week to attend a security forum. He also met with the country's President Lee Myung-bak.
Mr Kissinger served as secretary of state for US presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. (PA)
Torches light up Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall, a Roman-era fortification spanning the width of northern England, was lit up from end-to-end by volunteers carrying flaming torches last Saturday.
As night fell, 500 gas flames were lit at 250-metre intervals for 135 kilometres from Wallsend in northeast England to Bowness-on-Solway in the northwest. This created a coast-to-coast line of light along the route of a path which runs next to the wall.
The torch-lighting event marked British Tourism Week and the 1,600th anniversary of the Roman departure from Britain in 410 AD.
Hadrian's Wall was built in 122 AD on the orders of the Roman emperor Hadrian to mark his empire's northern frontier. It is the largest monument from the ancient era in northern Europe and is a Unesco World Heritage Site. (AFP)
Drugs in sculptures
Colombian police have said they had discovered 16 kilograms of cocaine stashed in replicas of sculptures by artist Fernando Botero intended for shipment to Spain.
"This is a sophisticated concealment system for the drugs in replicas of sculptures by a renowned Colombian artist," police said in a statement. The contraband was hidden in the replicas as it was being cast and dried.
No arrests were made during the operation, which discovered the sculptures in a Bogota warehouses ahead of shipment to Madrid. (AFP)
WWII bomb in Rome
A World War II bomb discovered during construction of a new station for high-speed trains in central Rome was defused yesterday after nearby homes were evacuated, the Ansa news agency reported.
More than 4,000 residents in the city's eastern Gianicolense area were forced to leave their homes while soldiers worked to neutralise the 250-kilo bomb.
The bomb was then removed to be destroyed in a controlled explosion. (AFP)
Lucky cat gets away with burnt paw
A cat in Germany escaped with just a burnt paw after travelling at speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour on the motorway under the bonnet of a car, Bild newspaper reported yesterday.
Loud meowing alerted driver Axel Sydow, 24, to his unwilling passenger only at the end of his 54-kilometre journey from Berlin to the town of Koenigs Wusterhausen.
"I couldn't see her from above. Underneath I then spotted her head and a leg.
"She obviously crawled up there to sleep earlier because the engine was warm," Mr Sydow told the paper.
Emergency services were called and were forced to remove the front wheel of the Volkswagen Golf and the engine covering before the cat could be freed. (AFP)
Woman dies in religious fast
A 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy religious fast, authorities said.
Evelyn Boyd told her husband, a preacher at a Pentecostal church in the city of Bartow, not to disturb her when she locked herself in the room on February 7 to fast and pray with only water to drink.
Family members forced open the door on March 5 and found her dead.
Sheriff Grady Judd told the St Petersburg Times that deputies do not expect to file charges, though the investigation continues.
A precise cause of death has not been determined.
The woman's husband, John Boyd, told the paper he did not check on his wife because she felt she was doing what God called her to do and he wanted to respect her privacy. (PA)