An outraged 19-year-old woman who thought she had met her "soul mate" on the Internet stabbed her would-be lover in the face with her hair pin after finding out he was actually a 51-year-old divorced father whose son is a year younger than her.

The woman, surnamed Zheng said she fell for the man, surnamed Bai, after they chatted online for a month. But when they met in Hohhot, in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, Zheng discovered she'd been duped.

She then took out her hair pin and stabbed Bai repeatedly in the face, causing severe bleeding.

Bai was sent to hospital by a policeman who broke up the fracas and Zheng was directed to pay him 5,000 yuan (that's around $730 US dollars) in compensation for his medical bills.

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Jiang Liangqian, an 84-year-old widow in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, is asking for public help to find her first love 62 years after her family forced them to split up.

The romance began in 1948 when Jiang was 22 and working at a bank in Zhenhai, also in Zhejiang Province. She also wrote poems and essays for local newspapers that attracted the attention and admiration of Xiao Jiang, a city government worker who began wooing her.

Their romance lasted less than a year, however when she was forced to return to Ningbo to wed a man to whom her parents had promised her to as a child.

Jiang's husband died recently and despite the concerns of her children she went to local newspapers to publicize her hope of finding Xiao again.

"After all these years, I still can't forget him," said Jiang. "He is man who knows how to keep healthy so I believe he must be alive. I want to find him. If he is single, I want to spend the rest of my life with him."

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The world's first robot girlfriend �C a life size rubber doll who can have intimate relations with her owner and even talk about football �C has been unveiled.

Dark-haired, negligee-clad "Roxxxy" comes complete with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Standing 170 centimeters tall, the doll comes with five "personalities," and is "ready for action" her developers said.

Wild Wendy is outgoing and adventurous, Frigid Farrah is reserved and shy, there's a young unnamed doll with a naive personality, Mature Martha is motherly and caring, while
S & M Susan is geared for more adventurous types.

Coming with a laptop the doll, priced between $7,000 and 10,000 US dollars was unveiled at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas recently.

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One of Britain's biggest health clubs has been criticised for putting up a sign warning "fatties" they would be eaten first by aliens.

The advert was meant to encourage people to join up and lose those excess pounds put on over Christmas, reports the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

The sign, which features a green alien, read: "Advance health warning! When the aliens come, they will eat the fatties first."

It then goes on to urge people to take up a special offer to join the health club and spa attached to Cadbury House hotel in Bristol.

But it prompted an angry reaction from some people in the local community, with residents saying it is offensive to those struggling with their weight.