Dead woman, 101, sits up and speaks from coffin

It was a shocking scenario!

Every detail was looked into. The 101-year- old Peng Xiuhua's dead body was ready for burial.

Mourners nearly died of shock when she sat up and spoke - as she was being put in her coffin.

Peng asked why so many people were in her house in Lianjiang, Guangdong province, China. Peng, who lived alone, had taken a tumble and hurt herself so her two daughters, who are in their 70s, were looking after her.

However, 10 days later her daughters could not detect a heartbeat and her body had gone stiff so she was declared dead.

The daughters gave her a bath, an undertaker dressed her and they were about to put her in her coffin when she came back to life.

"I am a lucky woman. Not only did I get to see how many people care for me, but I also woke up before they took me to the crematorium," she said.

Dogs as models

How's this for doggy style? These portraits show pooches showing off the latest in canine couture.

Dublin photographer Fran Veale spotted these mutt models in the street and asked their owners if he could take their photos. Thirty-eight of 40 he asked agreed - but then there was the small matter of getting the dogs into shirts - sometimes ties and glasses too - and then sitting still.

Fran said, "I got the idea after I photographed my own dog Jackie wearing the piano tie as I wanted a funny portrait for over the mantle piece."It really captured her personality. It's quite amazing how with just a look, a dog can communicate with its owner."

"I started approaching people on the street and asking them if I could shoot their dog', so to speak.

I showed them Jackie's portrait on my phone and nearly everyone loved it and agreed.

Skirts' rule lifted in Paris

At last Parisian women can wear trousers legally.

You might wonder why this strange statement when there is no rule to stop any Parisian woman from wearing trousers.

But the 1799 edict had stated that any woman in the French capital who wished to "dress like a man" must obtain special permission from the police.

Women in Paris have finally been granted the legal right to wear trousers, thanks to the axing of a 214-year-old law.

Earlier it was relaxed in an 1892 Amendment that said they were permitted "as long as the woman is holding the reins of a horse".

It was then watered down again in 1909 by a clause allowing women to wear "pantalons" while "on a bicycle or holding it by the handlebars".

And it clashed with the 1946 legislation that made men and women equal in the eyes of the French constitution.

Thanks to France's Minister of Women's Rights Najat Valluad-Belkacem, the 214-year old law was entirely revoked branding the document "nothing but a museum piece".