Spending too long in the loo can lead to divorce just after honeymoon!

October 12th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian state has offered to pay for a second honeymoon for any married couple on the brink of a divorce, a news report said Monday. Several holiday packages, which also include marriage counselling sessions, would be introduced by the end of the year with the aim of reducing the increasing number of divorces in the north-eastern state of Terengganu, the Star online news portal said.

October 3rd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A Taiwanese woman, who reportedly asked for divorce from her husband because his penis was too long, has been refused after a request to measure the man's manhood was denied. According to the Sin Chew Daily, which quoted a newspaper report from Taiwan, the woman, in her second attempt to divorce her husband, said that she had to bear with the pain whenever she had sex with him.

August 30th, 2009 LONDON - Kenneth Porter and Karen Cauwood's wedding day almost turned into a disaster after almost every company involved in their big day celebration went bust. The couple, from Bishop Auckland, County Durham, was left shocked following a string of bad luck.

August 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese farmer has finally gotten a divorce from his wife, who had used a fake ID card to get married to him in 2005, and who then disappeared after just five days of marriage. Xiao Chen, 31, a resident of Lishui, Zhejiang province married Huang Hai, a woman from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, just two weeks after meeting her, reports the China Daily.

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - In a new legal development in France, SMS text messages revealing adultery can be used as evidence for divorce. The Supreme Court of the country has ruled the decision claiming that it will make the divorce procedure smoother.

August 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife Veronica Lario has finally broken her silence over divorce from the Italian PM. The 53-year-old former actress is quoted in a new book, Tendenza Veronica.

August 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An 80-year-old woman has turned to court after being fed up with her husband's "go Dutch" policy. Li Yimu, in Fujian province, met Jiang Yibo six years ago and decided to tie the knot, reports The China Daily.

June 21st, 2009 LONDON - If sources are to be believed, Prince William is looking for a 5-million pound mansion in California's enclave of Malibu. And yesterday rumours were abuzz that the future king is hunting for a luxury hideaway where he can share a honeymoon with his girlfriend Kate Middleton, reports The Daily Express.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has blasted reports suggesting that he had a "steamy affair" with Noemi Letizia, the 18-year-old aspiring model at the heart of his divorce row, and said he would have to resign if caught lying about it. The 72-year-old conservative leader's relationship with Letizia created a huge furore after his wife Veronica demanded a divorce because of his womanising and said he was "not well".

May 27th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A new study has confirmed what every married person always believed - mothers-in-law are the number one reason why Indian couples get divorced. According to data in the Malaysia Community and Family Study 2004 by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN), "meddlesome in-laws" are the chief cause of divorces, especially in the Indian community.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - A very public divorce and allegations of being an aspiring teenage model's "Papi" have put a dent in Silvio Berlusconi's popularity ratings, says a new poll. Italian Prime Minister's ratings have slipped by three points to 53 per cent nearly two weeks after his second wife, Veronica Lario, demanded a divorce over his relationships with starlets and with Noemi Letizia, to whom he gave a 5,400-poun pendant for her 18th birthday, reports The Times.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit divorce judge, who decided to lay emphasis on the distressing impact divorce has on children, quoted a famous lewd poem as he made a ruling in a family battle on April 29. Lord Justice Nicholas Wall used the words from English poet Philip Larkin's 1971 work 'This Be The Verse', to put his point across.

April 21st, 2009 NEW YORK - Iraq's tourism industry is banking on Saddam Hussein's "popularity" by offering the former dictator's bedroom as the honeymoon suite for 150 pounds. However, the idea hasn't sit well with longtime honeymoon planner Liliane Nash.

April 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A divorce petition from a young Chinese couple was thrown out of court after the reason for it was revealed to be because of the changing of the lock on a door. The whole incident started when the young couple, who had been married for six months, had a quarrel, reports the China Daily.

April 17th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Rumours are abuzz that the mystery girl spotted hanging out with Mel Gibson on the beach in Costa Rica is actually opera singer Oksana Grigorieva, the former partner of James Bond actor Timothy Dalton. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, she had been waiting for Gibson to finalise his divorce from wife Robyn so they could be together.