Offbeat

PARIS: Graying, ink stained notebook fragments showing Napoleon Bonaparte's efforts two centuries ago to grasp the English language go on auction in Paris a

BERLIN: Better check your Facebook settings before posting a party invitation online. A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian group urging wives to avoid marital problems by fulfilling their husbands’ desires has angered politicians and women’s rights group

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio: A woman in Ohio has been treated to a birthday party at her bank — where she still holds the same savings account her father opened for her

92-year-old ‘inseparable’ twins leave the world together BUFFALO, New York: Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apa

NEW YORK: Urging graduates to repair “the public conversation” and rescue society from “grim careerists and ideologues,” playwright Tony Kushner on Frida

SAN ANTONIO: Saggy pants may be fashionable among urban youth but they won’t be allowed on some buses in the state of Texas. “Pull ‘em up

LOS ANGELES: An online auction of the belongings of one of America’s most notorious criminals, “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, generated $232,246 to compen

TOME, New Mexico: A 9-year-old boy has lifted off from a desolate patch of central New Mexico and floated into history. Bobby Bradley became th

LONDON: England striker Wayne Rooney has had a hair transplant. Rooney confirmed the news via Twitter: “I was going bald at 25, why not. I’