The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 defeat by Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday, only to find they had been caught on video and put on the internet. The video, put out by a blogger on social community website Virb, showed a group of 20 men singing and stripping off their clothes.
Lithuania’s government fell apart on Wednesday after Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas and his whole Cabinet announced their resignation following the defection of the largest party in the coalition. ”The situation today is such that I have to step down,” he told reporters. Under Lithuanian law, if the prime minister quits the entire government has to resign.
Two thieves who tried to rob two elderly women in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda, thinking they were easy prey, got more than they bargained for when the elder of the two victims, aged 93, valiantly defended herself in an unusual fashion, a press report said on Wednesday.
A Lithuanian brother and sister who spent almost three days frozen in a block of ice have been rewarded for their "brave" feat by the government, a television report said on Thursday. Circus veterans Arvydas and Diana Gaiciunai were awarded 5 000 litas (about R11 100) each and given gifts by the prime minister on Wednesday.