THE MAGPIE:A CHINESE man leaked the address of his secret lover while talking in his sleep. His wife Cao, of Nanjing, said she suspected her husband was up to something. "He became cold to me, and when his phone rang, he would walk out to answer it," she said.
However, during his sleep, her husband revealed exactly what he was up to. "I tried to have a conversation with him, and he told me the name and address unconsciously," said the wife.
Cao said she brought up the matter with her husband the next day, but he denied it. However, when she visited the address her husband was there with his lover.
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A woman in Sweden is selling a flat along with its contents - including her stubborn stepfather who refuses to move out. The woman, a lawyer, inherited the top-floor studio apartment when her mother died a few years ago, and now she wants to sell it.
But she has failed to convince her stepfather to budge from the property, which overlooks Stockholm's trendy Södermalm district, despite a court order. The 52-year-old man has remained in the flat under a joint ownership clause - but that has now been ruled invalid. So, in a bizarre case of buy-one-get-one-free, the woman says the apartment will be sold to the highest bidder - furnished, complete with the stepfather. Mats Ljungquist, a lawyer involved in the sale, warned it could get "very messy".
"Whoever buys the flat will have to organise the current tenant's eviction, as clearly outlined in the advertisement we ran in the weekend's papers," he told The Local, Sweden's English-language newspaper.
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A mother in West Virginia is seeking a recall of a popular Fisher-Price walkie-talkie after the toy belonging to her three-year-old apparently intercepted a profanity-laced conversation between truckers about drugs and strip clubs. Deborah Pancaro (34) said the walkie-talkie, sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, was intended to allow children to role-play animal rescues, like the Diego character in the popular cartoon series Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!
It is supposed to have a range of about 20ft, but Pancaro said she heard one of the voices say he was driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about 275 miles away.
Fisher-Price apologised for Pancaro's "disappointing experience", and though the product has not been recalled, Wal-Mart says it is being discontinued.
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Catholic nuns and priests in Italy are following their flocks to the beach this summer, establishing an inflatable church and a beach-convent in the sands to lure sunbathers.
The 98ft long blow-up church - staffed by priests ready to take confession - appeared recently on the Adriatic coast in the Molise region.
"There will be four or five people singing, with music about God," said an organiser.
The first attempt to inaugurate the inflatable church last month on the holiday island of Sardinia failed after strong winds forced organisers to relocate.
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A large inflatable dog poo has caused chaos after it blew away from an outdoor art exhibition - leaving a trail of destruction.
The house-sized replica turd, which was a piece of work by American artist Paul McCarthy, broke free from its moorings outside a museum in Switzerland.
The wind carried the fake faeces 200m - pulling down power lines and smashing a window in its path. The crap art, entitled Complex Shit, had been fitted with a safety system to deflate it if the weather turned bad, but that failed to work.
The blow-up poo has now been returned to the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, where it's scheduled to stay on display until 26 October.