A hospital in London, England, admitted that it mistakenly sent
letters to thirty patients, including six elderly men, telling
them they were pregnant. A spokesman for North Derbyshire Royal
Hospital blamed it on human error. None of the surprised
patients turned out to actually be expecting a baby, the
spokeswoman said.

A half-smoked cigar Winston Churchill left unfinished in 1941 has been sold for £4,500.
The wartime prime minister abandoned the stub to attend a Cabinet meeting - and it was picked up by a Downing Street worker.
The valet sent the four-inch stub to a friend with a note jotted on Number 10 writing paper.
The friend kept the souvenir until his death, at which point the souvenir stogie passed to a relative.
It was bought by a private collector at a sale in Norfolk.
Auctioneers Keys, of Aylsham, said the cigar had been expected to fetch around £350.
In November, a butter dish used as an ashtray by Sir Winston at the London dining debating club fetched £4,200.

A German man has been fined $925 for punching and killing his
parrot for screeching uncontrollably. "I'd had a row with my
girlfriend and she left me. Charlie wouldn't stop screeching. So
I punched him. I'm so sorry. He was a good friend," the
defendant, 41, told a court. Police had been called to his home
when neighbors mistook the parrot's screeching for human
screams

A new service promises Londoners they’ll never have to spend much time looking for a place to ‘go’, again. Westminster City Council, which covers London’s bustling Oxford Street, the West End, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, today launched “SatLav” - a toilet-finding service for cell phone users.

One of Britain's most dangerous gangsters has been using Facebook to threaten his enemies from inside a maximum security prison, it has been reported.

Colin Gunn, an underworld godfather who ordered the execution of two grandparents, has now had his social networking site closed down by prison bosses.

The 42-year-old from Nottingham was jailed over the revenge murders of John and Joan Stirland in 2004.

The Sunday Times reported that Gunn said in one posting: "I will be home one day and I can't wait to look into certain people's eyes and see the fear of me being there."

It comes after last week's revelation that one of the killers of teenager Ben Kinsella used Facebook to taunt his victim's family.

Jade Braithwaite, jailed for knifing to death Ben Kinsella, 16, used Facebook to taunt his victim's family.

While there is no shortage of fat men in America, only one over the past few decades called himself a professional.

Weighing 607 pounds, Bruce Snowdon was a sideshow fat man from 1977 to 2003, billed as "Harold Huge." His death on Nov. 9 at the age of 63 marks the end of a long, heavy tradition dating back centuries.

This weekend, his loved ones will honor him and lay his ashes to rest.

"Bruce was exactly as advertised: the last fat man on show on the carnival midways," said James Taylor, publisher of the sideshow journal Shocked & Amazed.

Ancient cannon balls that have been retrieved from ancient shipwrecks are exploding on the desks of archaeologists according New Scientist. Robert Child, of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales in Cardiff, told the magazine that has witness a few incidents of old rusted cannon balls start to heat up or explode after being exposed to oxygen. "There was smoke coming off the bench," he told the magazine. He said the explosions happened because the balls had developed a lattice-
like porous structure over hundreds of years that reacted with oxygen to produce massive amounts of heat.