USA: Pope Francis is a doll. No, really. Organisers of the Pontiff’s September visit to Philadelphia this week launched an online store featuring Papal plush dolls and bobble heads.

Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig team up to take down a regional bank in a comedy based on a true story.

Irish exploration firm Petroceltic has pulled out of Kurdistan, citing disappointing drilling results and the continuing low oil price environment among its reasons.

And these people trained for 40 hours to become professional cuddlers!

Yes, there is a cuddling shop in the States. What will they come up with next?

TWO incomplete, sun-whitened human skeletons lie spoon-fashion beneath a drought-stunted palo verde tree in the Arizona desert.

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler intervened to prevent a Jewish First World War veteran being sent to a death camp, a German Jewish newspaper has reported.

THE bones of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.

The bones of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.

His fists clenched and muscles rippling beneath a tight blue suit, the yellow-caped character appears poised to take on evil-doers.

Patricia Zengerle reports from Washington on the President’s one-week break away from two wars, global recession and domestic politics.

Hungary’s president said today he is outraged about a planned neo-Nazi rally remembering Rudolf Hess, deputy to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris was ordered by a Florida jury to pay US$8m (€6.3m) in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a precedent for around 8,000 other state lawsuits.

Germany’s highest court today banned a far-right rally marking this week’s anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.

THE White House offered support yesterday for Vice President Dick Cheney, a powerful proponent of the Iraq war, after the conviction of his top aide dealt a fresh blow to Cheney’s political reputation and raised new questions about his influence.

Robert Charles Browne told investigators in Denver he used ether to knock out one woman he was trying to seduce, then “used an ice pick on her.”

Some 3,800 neo-Nazis gathered today for a march in memory of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, in the Bavarian town where he is buried, police said.

Hollywood actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is relieved after a California judge dismissed a libel lawsuit against him.