● Berlin. Soup kitchen opens for dogs. A soup kitchen exclusively for dogs has opened its doors in Berlin providing pets of the homeless and unemployed with a free meal, the director of the establishment said on Friday. Despite the looming financial crisis, director Claudia Hollm dismissed criticism that it may be more sensible to collect money for humans than for dogs. «Nowadays people underestimate dogs.» Hollm said. «Hollm and her company «Animal Board,» gets sponsorship from companies, including animal food manufacturers. a luxury dog day-care center.

● Munich. Hundreds flock to toilet to see art. A public toilet in Munich which has been transformed into an art museum has attracted hundreds of people in the first days after opening, said a spokesman for the city?s tourism agency. «On the night we opened, around 800 people came to see our work,» initiator of the museum project, Mathias Koehler said. He said that a toilet was a great place for artistic expression because art is a form of relief in the same way that going to the toilet is. The art exhibited is mainly graffiti often with a political theme. Examples include images of Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel flanking a urinal in the corner of the room.

● TV Show. Real McCain joins fake Palin on «Saturday Night Live». The real John McCain and the fake Sarah Palin traded jokes on Saturday as the Republican presidential candidate took a break from the campaign trail to appear on the comedy TV show «Saturday Night Live.» With the election only three days away, McCain joked that he might resort to a strategy called «the double maverick.» «That?s where I go totally beserker and freak everybody out, even the regular mavericks,» he said.

● Treatment. Patrick Swayze says chemo was «hell on wheels». Patrick Swayze, filming again less than a year after being given a grim diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, described chemotherapy as «hell on wheels» but said work had kept him feeling positive. Swayze, 56, best known for his dance instructor role in the movie «Dirty Dancing,» underwent months of chemotherapy and an experimental drug treatment to beat one of the most virulent forms of cancer, which experts say has only a 5 percent five-year survival rate. «I do find myself, at the end of the day riding home, sort of catching myself with a smile on my face,» Swayze told his first interview since returning to acting. «I?m proud of what I?m doing.»