From Donald Trump's fans in Bangladesh to a scandal over "hot" priests in Rome. Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.
Commander in beef
Donald Trump is in his final days. Soon that impressive blond combover will be no more after he is led out with a rope around his neck and put to the sword.
The "Donald Trump" in question is not the US president but an albino Bangladeshi buffalo who has become a social media sensation in the run-up to the Muslim "feast of the sacrifice", Eid al-Adha.
Crowds have been flocking to snap the bull whose striking hairstyle gives him a surprising resemblance to the US leader.
Owner Zia Uddin Mridha, 38, told AFP that his farm near the capital Dhaka had been besieged.
But unlike his namesake, the buffalo does not enjoy attention, with Mridha trying to keep the crowds away.
Muslims traditionally share the meat with the poor or with neighbours during the festival.
"I am going to miss Donald Trump," sighed Mridha, who bathes him four times a day. "But that is the core spirit of Eid al-Adha -- making a sacrifice."
Not one to boast
A world without the greatest peacemaker and dealmaker in history would be a sad place indeed.
Especially as another of Donald's hidden talents -- reading Mandarin -- had just been "revealed".
Social media in China and beyond was awash with a clip which appeared to show the president sneaking a peep at a notebook Xi Jinping had left on the table during their talks in Beijing when the Chinese leader popped out to the toilet.
But AFP's Fact Check investigators were able to debunk the claims, proving the folder was Trump's own and that there are limits to his genius.
Fallen angels
In a shock akin to the pope embracing Buddhism, a "sexy priest" who adorns thousands of calendars sold to tourists in Rome has revealed that he was never a man of the cloth.
Giovanni Galizia, 39, said a photographer persuaded him to put on a cassock as a joke when he was a teenager.
"I can assure you I was never a priest," he told the Repubblica daily.
The revelation has cast doubt on whether the other dishy deacons shot for "Calendario Romano" -- one for every month of the year -- are also fakes.
Galizia said a photographer persuaded him to pose when he was 17. "It was a game, he had everything ready," including a soutane.
While countless copies of the 10-euro ($11.65) calendar have been sold, Galizia said he "never asked for a euro".
Instead he has earned a kind of immortality, with friends sending him photos of his dashing younger self every time they visit the Italian capital.
High society
Consternation at Cannes after the French Riviera resort's hard-right mayor -- who is running to be French president next year -- sent police sniffer dogs out onto the streets for a drugs crackdown during the world's top film festival.
Prodigious quantities of cocaine are traditionally consumed on the festival's heady party scene.
However, police said they would not raid private parties in luxury villas or in yachts where much of the high jinks happen.
"I hope they don't come and test anyone in here," one veteran producer told AFP.
"Cocktails and cocaine are almost as old as the festival itself," another complained.
And in a sign that Hollywood also likes to give back, one meme doing the rounds proposed that "all cocaine not consumed at Cannes be donated to local charities."
