ShareLONDON: A pet cat that had been missing from its Liverpool home in the UK has returned seven-years after it disappeared.

ShareSAO PAULO: Police in Brazil said they had freed a 45-year-old woman who had been locked in a house for 20 years with no communication with the outside world.

ShareA man in the US has been acquitted of drunk-driving after claiming he consumed alcohol to keep warm after – but not before – he lost control of his vehicle on an icy road.

ShareThe Czech Republic now has a transport minister without a driving licence.

ShareWHO flushed the four-week old kitten down the toilet in Pimlico, London? The kitten was rescued by chance from a drain by electrical engineer Bradley Jackson, who was working in a block of flats.

Share PARIS: Eleven members of a family jumped out of a window at their home in the outskirts of Paris, when they thought they were being attacked by a “devil”. One of the people, a four-month-old girl, died in the incident.

Share MELBOURNE: A sleepless Australian got up to work on his computer late at night shortly before a speeding car crashed into his home and landed right on top of his mattress. He said: “I’m very lucky because the bed was completely destroyed.”

Share SYDNEY: An Australian woman woke up terrified after a drunken neighbour walked into her house and took a shower, mistakenly thinking he was home, a report said.

ShareLONDON: A Briton was choked to death after he had asked to be tortured during a sex game in a pensioner couple’s bondage dungeon, a media report said on Saturday.

ShareDARYL Brownell is sure to be a Facebook legend on account of his having killed his family cat with a bullet.

ShareMISSING 7-year-old Mohammed Fazlu, of Bangalore, India, has been fond alive and well. Fazlu was playing football when he kicked the ball into a train. He went to retrieve it and before he could climb back down the train had moved off.

ShareMARIA Maria Gotenko of Chernigov, Ukraine, killed her husband Victor when he tried to have sex with her as she vacuumed the floor at their home.