TAIWAN:  Budai, a township in southwest Taiwan, is building a church in the form of a giant high-heeled shoe, made of metal and blue glass tiles, seeking to attract more tourists to the area.

A Connecticut jury dismissed a lawsuit filed by a New York woman who sued her 12-year-old nephew for $127,000 for injuries she contends resulted from the boy’s “exuberant” greeting at a party on his eighth birthday.