Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

From the bear necessities to everything coming up orange for Donald Trump. Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.

 Honey monsters  

It has been a week of bears behaving badly. Two young tearaways who escaped from an enclosure at a British wildlife park made a beeline for the food store to devour a week's worth of honey.

Visitors were rushed to a safe building at Wildwood Devon centre in southwest England. But having gorged themselves, four-year-old Mish and Lucy promptly fell asleep.

Experts have tried to release the siblings several times into the wild, but the pair -- who were abandoned as babies by their mother in a snowdrift in the Albanian mountains -- were not able to cut it alone in a world without honey sandwiches.

Another bear caused flight chaos in northern Japan by taking a stroll on the runway of Yamagata Airport Thursday, closing it down for the day.

Airport staff tried to chase it away with a car but it evaded both them and police and hunters.

"We are in a stalemate now," airport official Akira Nagai told AFP.

Last month a bear brought a golf tournament to a premature end in central Japan, with experts saying climate change is playing havoc with their food sources and hibernation.

Romancing the ring road

If there is anything more romantic than getting married in a motorway service station, it is apparently getting hitched on a motorway itself.

Nineteen lucky couples tied the knot on Amsterdam's ring road Saturday when it was closed down to celebrate the Dutch city's 750th anniversary.

Thousands of people cheered as the lucky couples -- chosen from 400 who applied for the honour -- exchanged vows on the boiling tarmac.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Geralda Wickel, who stopped to cheer on a couple. Even though she herself would prefer "the fairytale bit" in a castle.

 

Everything's come up orange   

It's been another unforgettable week for the US President Donald, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Pakistan hours before his sent American bombers to "obliterate" Iran's nuclear sites in strikes he compared to the levelling of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

But Trump has rarely looked paler than when he later dropped his own bomb -- an F one -- to vent his fury at Israel seemingly breaking the ceasefire he had brokered to end the war with Iran.

Yet the next day, thanks to the House of Orange, the president had recovered his colour and his good humour, with the Dutch king and queen putting him up in their palace during the NATO summit in The Hague.

The buttering up he got from NATO chief and former Dutch premier Mark Rutte, who called him "Daddy", had also clearly helped.

The "Trump Whisperer" made sure he was treated to a banquet in the palace's baroque gilded Orange Room as well as a private breakfast with King Willem-Alexander and his family the morning after.

The president described the royal family as "beautiful and spectacular people... central casting. I want to thank them for the royal treatment they've given us -- couldn't have been nicer," he gushed, the orange glow back in his cheeks.