Would you pay to be treated like a hamster?

It's a unique concept according to its creators, a hotel in the French town of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster. 

For €99 a night, you can eat hamster grain, run in a giant wheel, sleep in hay stacks in the what is called the "Hamster Villa".



Maud and Sebastien are the first ones to experience how hamsters live, not afraid at the thought of sleeping in hay or feeding on a hamster fountain and special grain.



It's a unique experience and, the guests say, just something different.



"To become a hamster, eat seeds, change our way of life...come out of our daily routine," Maud and Sebastien told Reuters TV.

The owners, Frederic Tabary and Yann Falquerho, run a company which rents out unusual and bizarre places.

"The Hamster in the world of children is that little cuddly animal. Often, the adults who come here have wanted or did have hamsters when they were small," Falquerho said, dressed as a hamster.

However, the price is soon to go up as today's hamsters need, according to the owners, Wifi and a giant TV screen. – IOL News

Trade your air miles to take miles off your face

Want a breast implant? Your hair replaced? Your face lifted? Now you can do it thanks to Finnair.

Just trade in your air miles. Finland’s national carrier is offering its frequent flyers in its Finnair Plus loyalty service a chance to trade their air miles for free plastic surgery.

“Finnair contacted the hospital,” said Mikko Tuomainen, director of loyalty programmes. “The idea was to incorporate partners and services from all walks of life.”

About 1.3 million flyers are enrolled in its programme. A breast augmentation surgery would require 3.18 million points which would need 120 round trip, business class flights between Helsinki and New York.

No soapies, no marriage

An Indian woman successfully divorced her husband after he refused to allow her to watch television soap operas.

The Daily News and Analysis newspaper said the situation led to daily arguments between the couple from Pune, southeast of Mumbai, and she filed for divorce.



Television soap operas, with their high melodrama, dramatic close-ups and music, have a huge following in India, particularly among housewives or women who work as domestic help.



Granting her application, a family court judge said the husband had been picking arguments with his wife for more than four years "on the ground that she was seeing Hindi serials on TV channels".


It added: "The respondent (husband) was not allowing the petitioner (wife) to see programmes on TV as per her choice".

The divorce ruling was given in August, but details had only recently emerged when the ex-husband applied to the high court to overturn the decision, which also gave the woman custody of the couple's six-year-old child.

His lawyers argued in court on Monday that the woman's claims of cruel treatment against her were false and were part of the normal "wear and tear" of married life, the newspaper said. - Sapa-AFP