Quirky World...Doggone restaurant: Chef serves last canine.

SOUTH KOREA: For more than 30 years, chef and restaurant owner Oh Keum-il built her expertise in cooking one traditional South Korean delicacy: dog meat. But the 58-year-old’s experience with a food eaten for centuries is about to become history.

Daegyo, the famous restaurant she opened in a Seoul alley in 1981, will serve its last bowl of boshintang, or dog stew, today. Opposite views on dogs as food or pets traditionally come to a head on three ‘dog days’, when many queue for the dish but animal rights activists also protest.

ENGLAND: A German artist has sparked an unlikely gold rush by burying thousands of euro worth of the precious metal on a Kent beach as part of an arts festival.