The American Embassy in Malawi will next week play host to American-born Malawian musician Masauko Chipembere.

PARIS (Reuters) - Football star turned actor Eric Cantona launched a mock bid for the French presidency on Tuesday in a stunt designed to highlight the plight of millions of poor and homeless people.

ZURICH (Reuters) - The world's biggest food group Nestle has launched an online programme inviting pet owners to team up with their furry friends to lose weight.

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - For a mere $100, Nell Benton has found herself not just a job, but sole ownership in a restaurant that would seem to be a perfect fit.

Albums by artists including Arctic Monkeys, Adele and Charlie Simpson have reportedly been destroyed after rioters in London set fire to a stock warehouse on Monday. The Sony DADC building in Enfield, north London was torched by thugs causing chaos across the capital, which has seen widespread violence and looting since Saturday. The three-storey warehouse served as the headquarters for PIAS, the biggest distributor of independent music.

Women stripped to their bikinis in Moscow to show their support for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in an increasingly raunchy election campaign. Activists from the so-called Medvedev Girls said they were taking off their clothes to support the President’s initiative to cut down on the public beer drinking. They invited members of the public strolling on Pushkin Square to pour their cans of beer into buckets.

Street theatre actors were torn off a strip by police after they mingled naked with crowds at a music festival. The Deuxime Groupe D’intervention performers had been invited from France to take part in Poland’s Malta Festival in Poznan. But the group, whose motto is ‘Wake Up Your Sensitive Parts, ignored the stage and stripped naked as they mingled with festival-goers waiting for bands like Portishead and Fleet Foxes to start playing.

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann got her Elvis Presley dates all shook up during a campaign stop Tuesday in South Carolina. The congresswoman from Minnesota played the Elvis tune “Promised Land” at a local restaurant and told the crowd of 300 that she wanted to say happy birthday to the king of rock ‘n’ roll.

The Ukrainian women's group, Femen, took its distinctive brand of protest to the trial of ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday when two activists climbed atop a police wagon outside the court and bared their breasts. The action by the group, whose activists regularly stage topless public protests to dramatize their causes, surprised scores of police who were keeping an eye on a nearby rally by pro- Tymoshenko supporters.

Authorities are seeking a former Pasadena church youth pastor accused of filming two teen girls in a shower. Thomas Jason Fortenberry, 30, is charged with two counts of improper photography, accused of choosing two 15-year-olds and two 17-year-olds for a church game similar to the television show “Fear Factor” which ended with the girls being covered in honey. According to court documents, Fortenberry recently admitted to the two older girls that he hid a camera on Nov. 4, 2007, at the Greater Harvest Community Church at 2121 Genoa Red Bluff in Pasadena. He said he taped them disrobing and washing the honey off. Fortenberry also told one of the girls he videotaped the younger girls that day, according to the criminal complaint. When confronted by investigators, Fortenberry would only say that “he had done things he should not have done,” court records show. Fortenberry faces a maximum of two years behind bars if convicted of the state jail felonies. He could not be reached immediately for comment.

Lily Clarke, 21 years old, suffers a strange and rare syndrome that makes her sleep for two months like a sleeping beauty. She is suffering a Kleine-Levin Syndrome. She had missed the university exams, Christmas and New Year. And even she missed her birthday party, when she was 18 after falling asleep a few days earlier. Her mother, Adele, 47 years old, said it started in 2007 when they had meal after playing ice skating.