THE more politicians smile, the more people distrust them, according to researchers who said 80 per cent of Portuguese think politicians fake their smiles.

A PAMPERED pooch who inherited $US12 million from a late US hotel magnate has fled to Florida "under an assumed name" after receiving death threats, a report says.

A GERMAN woman aged 64 has given birth to a healthy baby girl, a national record and her first child after years of unfruitful attempts and false pregnancies.