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  1. Fayza Majdoub stands next to an incubator holding her premature baby girl who survived six hours in a hospital morgue refrigerator after being declared stillborn in the Nahariya hospital in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The baby had been delivered in the 23rd week of pregnancy at a weight of just one pound, five ounces and was initially declared dead and placed in the morgue. When the parents came to collect the tiny body for burial on Monday they found the baby breathing and showing a faint heartbeat and she was rushed to the intensive care unit. Hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said the child died early Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. He told Israeli Army Radio the specific cause of death would only be known after a post-mortem examination. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg, Jini)
    Baby pronounced dead lives after hours in cooler Reuters - Tue Aug 19, 10:19 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

  2. Sheriff goes to jail for an education Reuters - Thu Aug 21, 11:36 AM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - There's a new sheriff in jail.

  3. An obstetrician at work in an operating theatre. A 61-year-old woman in central Japan has given birth to a surrogate child for her daughter, an obstetrician has said.(AFP/File/Didier Pallages)
    Japan 61-yr-old surrogate mum gives birth Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 10:39 AM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A 61-year-old Japanese woman has given birth to a surrogate child, an obstetrician in central Japan said on Wednesday. She is believed to be the oldest surrogate mother yet recorded in Japan.

  4. Court gives green light to "boobs on bikes" parade Reuters - Tue Aug 19, 10:20 AM ET

    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand court has allowed a parade of topless porn stars on motor bikes to proceed on the main street of the country's biggest city, local media said Tuesday.

  5. Angel the dog credited with saving kittens AP - 13 minutes ago

    RENO, Nev. - You've heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.

  6. Wis. woman arrested, booked over library fines AP - 13 minutes ago

    GRAFTON, Wis. - A Grafton woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Heidi Dalibor, 20, told the News Graphic in Cedarburg she ignored the library's calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court.

  7. Man continues decades-old Cadillac-a-year habit AP - Thu Aug 21, 1:08 AM ET

    FLINT, Mich. - There are loyal customers, and then there's Joseph Macko.

  8. Man arrested just 12 hours after release from jail AP - 13 minutes ago

    CLOVERDALE, Ind. - A 22-year-old man was back behind bars about 12 hours after he was released from jail, accused of stealing a car and beer and leading police on a high-speed chase.

  9. Anthony Kim of the U.S. makes a par putt on the 17th green during the second round of Ballantine's Championship golf tournament at the Pinx Golf Club in Seogwipo on Jeju Island March 14, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)
    Economy under par? Play less golf Reuters - Thu Aug 21, 11:37 AM ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak has told officials to give up golf for the moment because it sends the wrong signal just as the economy has hit the rough.

  10. Animal control officer Rochelle Ferrera rubs Plop-Plop, a female emu under the chin, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008,at the Bay County Animal Control Center in Panama City, Fla. Bay County Sheriff's deputies were forced to use a Taser to subdue Plop-Plop on Monday after she escaped from a farm last weekend. (AP Photo/The News Herald Panama City, Fla., Jonas Hogg)
    Fla. deputies Taser Plop-Plop the unruly emu AP - 12 minutes ago

    PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Bay County Sheriff's deputies were forced to use a Taser to subdue an escaped emu named Plop-Plop. The large female bird escaped from a farm last weekend and on Monday, she holed up with some horses and goats in a pen.

  11. Man drives home 53rd new Cadillac in 53 years AP - 13 minutes ago

    FLINT, Mich. - There are loyal customers, and then there's Joseph Macko. The 84-year-old Flint man has bought or leased a new Cadillac every year since 1955, the year Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif., and Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus.

  12. A monkey perches on top of a departure board at Tokyo Railway Toyoko Line's Shibuya Station in Tokyo Wednesday morning, Aug. 20, 2008. The animal later climbed down and dashed out of the station, evading scores of net-wielding policemen to escape. (AP Photo/Tokyu Corp. via Kyodo News)
    Monkey eludes dragnet at Tokyo train station AP - Wed Aug 20, 4:16 PM ET

    TOKYO - Morning train commuters in Tokyo were joined on their way to work by an unusual companion Wednesday: a wild monkey. A security guard spotted the monkey near ticket gates in Shibuya Station, said Norihiru Masui, a spokesman for train operator Tokyu Corp.

  13. Sailors Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson(R) of Britain posing with their gold medal, the 17th gold for the Britain at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The plane bringing Britain's Olympic team home next week is to get a golden nose job in honour of the record gold medal haul for Team GB in Beijing, British Airways said Thursday.(AFP/Don Emmert)
    Golden nose job for British team plane AFP - Thu Aug 21, 1:21 PM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - The plane bringing Britain's Olympic team home next week is to get a golden nose job in honour of the record gold medal haul for Team GB in Beijing, British Airways said Thursday.

  14. Davis County Commissioner Alan Hansen kisses 'Reno', a quarter horse owned by Scott Bass who works for the county, in Farmington, Ut., Tuesdaty, Aug. 19, 2008. County employees won a weight loss contest against the Davis Hospital. As a prize, their bosses, the county commissioners, kissed a cow during the County fair last week. Hansen was noticeably absent from the kiss, so they brought a horse to the courthouse for payback. (AP Photo/Keith Johnson, Deseret News)
    Utah politician seals deal with horse kiss AP - 14 minutes ago

    FARMINGTON, Utah - Lose a bet, kiss a horse. That's how Davis County Commissioner Alan Hansen found himself kissing a 3-year-old sand-colored horse named Reno.

  15. A lost humpback whale calf swims beside a yacht in Pittwater, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Sydney, August 20, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz
    Australia to put down orphan whale calf Reuters - Thu Aug 21, 5:35 AM ET

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - An baby whale which has been desperately trying to suckle from a yacht in a Sydney bay in a futile bid to find its missing mother is to be humanely destroyed, Australian wildlife officers said on Thursday.

  16. Illinois sheriff does jail time - voluntarily AP - 13 minutes ago

    WAUKEGAN, Ill. - The Lake County sheriff is behind bars — voluntarily. Sheriff Mark Curran said his goal is to talk to inmates so he can see the jail from their perspective. That way he can try to solve potential problems, such as safety issues, and better understand the inmate experience, he said.

  17. A couple stands at the embankment of the Volga River in Samara, about 1000 km (620 miles) southeast of Moscow May 18, 2007. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
    Outback mayor seeks "ugly duckling" women Reuters - Mon Aug 18, 9:02 AM ET

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - A plea for lovelorn female "ugly ducklings" to move to a remote Australian mining town to reverse a shortage of eligible women has landed the local mayor in hot water.

  18. A global positioning satellite is seen in a handout artist's rendering. REUTERS/Handout
    Satellites track Mexican kidnap victims with chips Reuters - Thu Aug 21, 1:43 PM ET

    QUERETARO, Mexico (Reuters) - Wealthy Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.

  19. A pigeon on a roof. Bosnian police have impounded a pigeon after discovering prisoners used it to smuggle drugs into one of the country's highest security jails, an official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)
    Pigeon in custody for smuggling drugs to Bosnian prisoners AFP - Thu Aug 21, 2:20 PM ET

    SARAJEVO (AFP) - Bosnian police have impounded a pigeon after discovering prisoners used it to smuggle drugs into one of the country's highest security jails, an official said Thursday.

  20. The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina stands erect and leans against a wall by his coffin during his own wake in his mother's home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The last wish of Medina, 24, who was found dead on Aug. 15, 2008 underneath a bridge in the capital, was to be standing at his own wake, and was embalmed for the occasion. (AP Photo/Juan Alicea Marcado, El Nuevo Dia)
    Corpse kept upright for 3-day wake in Puerto Rico AP - Tue Aug 19, 4:25 PM ET

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.

  21. Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L), the mayor of the Olympic Village, Chen Zhili and the head of the AOC John Coates are led from the stage during the Australian Olympic team's flag raising ceremony at the Olympic Village in Beijing August 7, 2008. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
    Australians vow revenge on cocky Britons Reuters - Tue Aug 19, 8:57 AM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Australia's Olympic Committee president, aghast at the sight of Britain above his country in the Olympic medals table, has vowed revenge -- if not now then on British soil in 2012.

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