PUNE: Superman's spectacular return to celluloid this summer capitalises on mankind's secret desire for larger than life heroes and their world-saving antics. One of the most popular and enduring forms of art, comic books have the power to zoom their central characters right off their pages on to the silver screen. Last year there were the due

LONDON - With Australian outback hero Crocodile Dundee as her inspiration, an 80-year-old British pensioner foiled a knife-wielding burglar with an even bigger blade of her own.

LONDON: From dating invitations to sexually explicit comments, mobile text messaging is slowly changing the way most young people approach romantic relationships, a survey conducted across Britain has shown

JAKARTA - A militant Islamic group has filed a police report against Indonesia's miss universe candidate accusing her of indecency, a lawyer for the organization said Tuesday.

NEW YORK - A missile fell off a truck and onto a New York highway on Friday, but

LAS VEGAS - Vera Rhodes has come a long way from her conservative upbringing in Pennsylvania's Amish community

There she was a virgin until she married at age 30. Now, she is an enthusiastic 54-year-old member of the millions-strong "swinging" community who speaks openly of her encounters with multiple sexual partners.

BERLIN - Police in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt were stunned when a thief they had just released from custody stole an officer's bicycle on his way out and rode off on it, authorities said Thursday. "They could scarcely believe his cheek," said a spokesman for Ingolstadt police. "It's almost impossible to beat."

SHANGHAI - Online marriage brokers are common in China, but a young Chinese Web site is thriving by turning the traditional idea of marriage on its head.

Called "Marriage for Asexuals" (www.wx920.com), the site claims to be the first and biggest online marriage broker for "asexual" people in China. It says it has attracted 7,000 members since it was launched last year.

London - Britons are spending as much as 83 billion pounds a year without knowing where the money went, according to research by Visa.