Five things you might have missed last week

1. Expensive break

Thieves snatched a million euros worth of jewellery from the boot of a German designer's car, when he left it to relieve himself. Harald Hardy Herzmann was on his way to meet customers when he stopped at the roadside. The thieves took two suitcases of necklaces, watches and rings.

2. You have 3,000 messages

A Beijing man has been paid £130 by a Chinese television company after receiving 3,000 nuisance text messages when his phone number was used in a television drama.

3. How many beans?

Transferring marbles, beads and beans from one plate to another using chopsticks. A party trick maybe? No, the entry requirement for the Hisatagakuen Sasebo Girls' High School in Japan

4. Pearls before swine

Pigs eat more heartily when exposed to classical symphonies, a farmer in Vietnam has claimed. Mr Cong inadvertently stumbled upon the correlation when playing Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert to his employees.

5. Open wide

Koda, the polar bear, is reportedly "doing very well" after undergoing root-canal surgery at Pittsburgh Zoo. An anaesthetic blow dart was used so that the surgery could be performed on the two-year-old, 550lb bear. "The bear was very comfortable, and so were we," said Tom Klein, a veterinary dentist.

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