Louise Fowler, 16, was heartbroken in 1935 after her 23-year-old boyfriend, Roy Domigan, gave her a diamond engagement ring and her parents promptly moved from Michigan to California to keep her from marrying.

So now, at the age of 83, she was stunned that Domigan, 90, gave her a call out of the blue. The two recently had a reunion in Redmond, Ore.

“It’s amazing to think after 68 years, he would want to get in touch with me,” Fowler said. “I never did forget him. I always wondered about him.”

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Business at Bonzai Japanese restaurant in Seattle is booming on Saturday nights – when patrons are invited to eat sushi off a sexy topless girl lying on her back.

While some women’s groups are outraged, customers are delighted.

“It appeals to puerile interests, I suppose, but what the hell?” said Keith Ancker, 28, who had never tried sushi until now.

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People would rather go to the dentist than sit in gridlocked traffic for more than an hour, a new survey says.

Yahoo Autos quizzed 2,055 folks about the worst tortures of daily life and traffic was high on the list, beaten only by standing on the platform for a subway for more than an hour.

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Two politicians were caught speeding outside Paris – as they drove to an unveiling ceremony for the country’s first speed-trap cameras.

Reporters with a radar gun clocked transport minister Gilles de Robien cruising at 61 mph and law-and-order chief Nicolas Sarkozy going 64 mph – on a road with a top speed of 43 mph.

Red-faced de Robien admitted: “Nobody is above the laws of the road.”

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A British art group is trying to get painters and sculptors to stop putting “ugly” nude women in their pieces.

To promote its cause, the Society for the Appreciation of the Female Nude will hand out its Venus award to the artist who portrays the most beautiful female nude.

Spokesman Jonathan Rush told the BBC the society was a group of “art lovers who are bored with looking at geometric or ugly nudes in galleries.”