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A German court fined a man 400 euros (470 dollars) for biting a waitress on the toe and drawing blood after he spilled beer on her foot and she told him to lick it clean. "The waitress did not hold out her foot for him to hurt, but to clean," the judge ruled in the case in Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany, the court said in a statement. The waitress took 10 days off work because of the injury.

A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say. The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was buried in the famous Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura. The prehistoric "tool" was reassembled from 14 fragments of siltstone. Its life size suggests it may well have been used as a sex aid by its Ice Age makers, scientists report. "In addition to being a symbolic representation of male genitalia, it was also at times used for knapping flints,"...