24 December 2007: 2007 was a silly year

And finally, we've tried throughout the year to keep you up-to-date with the stranger side of life, featuring stories like the Australian bank that issued a credit card to a cat, and the inadvertent invasion of Liechtenstein by the Swiss army, who got lost on manoeuvres in the dead of night. But there were a few that for various reasons we couldn't cover, so for the last broadcast of 2007 here are the most intriguing:

In Germany a 100-year-old woman in moved out of her retirement home after six weeks saying she found the other residents boring and too old.

Fishery officials in China restocked a river with 13 truckloads of live carp, then residents from the nearby city swarmed to the banks a short way downstream and caught most of them.

An American man ordered flowers for his mistress, and the florists sent the receipt to his home, thereby informing his wife of his infidelity.

A Belgian prankster put the entire country up for sale on the Internet auction site eBay, and might have sold it had the company not noticed and halted the bidding.

And finally, finally: a town in South Korea spent some 140 million dollars to build itself an airport, and then was then forced to admit that no airlines were prepared to fly there.

The International News will be back on the 2nd of January, and from all the International News team, have a merry and peaceful Christmas and a happy new year.