Spears wins time with sons

A judge hearing a custody battle between pop singer Britney Spears and her ex-husband granted her more time with their two sons on Tuesday after she was praised for trying to get her personal life back under control, reports Reuters from Los Angeles.

Spears, 26, turned up at court on time, demurely dressed in a brown polka-dot dress and cream cardigan, and accompanied by her parents.

Teen survives 25,000 volts

A teenager has survived an electric shock from a 25,000-volt power line which catapulted him from a bridge on to a railway track. Sam Cunningham, of London, was retrieving a rugby ball from a bridge when the steel toe caps in his boots attracted a charge from overhead power cables. The force propelled the 16-year-old on to a goods railway line below, from where he was rescued by emergency services.

Cabbie returns $4m violin

A Grammy-nominated violinist who left his $4 million Stradivarius in a New Jersey taxi repaid the driver who returned it with a free half-hour concert at his cab rank. Philippe Quint had been performing in Dallas and was so tired after getting back to Newark airport at 3.00 am he left the 285-year-old ex-Kiesewetter violin on the back seat of the taxi. After a calling the police, the airport called to tell him the driver, Mohammed Khalil, had returned it.