A hankering for hygiene has left two Danish tourists visiting Rome a little lighter in the pocket, after they were arrested for washing their feet in one of the city's public fountains.
The woman aged 60 and a 17-year-old boy were stopped by police at the Fountain of the Two Seas (below), close to the Roman Forum and the Colosseum.
The pair were apparently dangling their feet from the side of the fountain "up to their knees" - a definite no-no.
A whopping 900 (A$1285) fine was levied, with the outraged woman saying she would complain to the Danish Embassy.
Earlier this week an Italian man was also arrested for taking a nude dip in the city's famous Trevi Fountain.
It's all in the snot...well frog snot anyway, which is being touted as potentially destroying human strains of influenza.
Apparently all animals have a few anti-microbial host defence peptides as part of their immune systems, so researchers from Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology in India decided to test it out.
They screened 32 frog defence peptides to see which had flu-busting abilities and it turns out four are fighting fit.
Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta also tested mucus from a rare hydrophylax bahuvistara frog, native to India.
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