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Disposable diaper breaks fall, saves child's life
(AP)
AP - A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
Help-wanted ad for nanny: `My kids are a pain'
(AP)
AP - It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, "My kids are a pain." But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.
Ga. town's scarecrows h(a)unting for world record
(AP)
 AP - This small northeastern Georgia town's population boom is frightening. In a bid to break a world record for scarecrows and scare up some fun for the fall season, thousands of straw-stuffed newcomers are creeping across town.
Baby boy born on airliner en route to Australia
(AP)
AP - An Indian woman gave birth to a healthy boy aboard a jet airliner while flying to Australia to reunite with her husband.
Spanish town blushes with annual tomato fight
(AP)
 AP - Spanish revelers have pelted each with 113 tons of ripe tomatoes in an annual food fight. Town hall says an estimated 40,000 people took part in the hour of messy fun in the village of Bunol near Valencia. The ritual dates back to the 1940s.
Woman wearing veil told to leave Italian museum
(Reuters)
Reuters - The head of one of Venice's most
prestigious museums apologized on Wednesday to a Muslim woman
asked to leave the building by a guard because she was wearing
a veil over her face.
Australian school may backflip on cartwheel ban
(Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian school which
recently banned its students from doing cartwheels, somersaults
and other gymnastics during recess is reviewing the decision
after parents and students got all bent out of shape.
Free pizza in price protest
(Reuters)
 Reuters - "Pizzaioli" or pizza chefs in Naples,
birthplace of the Margherita, handed out free pizzas on
Wednesday in protest at high prices charged by rivals who, they
say, use the spike in commodity prices to rip off consumers.
Cat survives being walled in under bath for 7 weeks
(Reuters)
Reuters - A four-year-old cat in Germany called
Bonny has survived after being walled in beneath a bathtub for
seven weeks, its owner said Tuesday.
No nuns on catwalk, priest stops "beauty contest"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - An Italian priest who had planned an
online "pageant" for nuns has suspended the project, saying he
was misinterpreted and had no intention of putting sisters on a
beauty catwalk.
Italian museum defies pope over crucified frog
(Reuters)
 Reuters - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope
Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture
portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg
that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.
"Grease to Greece" racers cross Europe on cooking oil
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Fuelled only by used cooking fat, eight
teams completed a 2,500-mile car rally from London to Athens on
Wednesday in a bid to promote awareness of cheap and
environmentally-friendly bio-fuels.
Fed-up Peruvian neighbourhood passes one-dog rule
(Reuters)
Reuters - Dog lovers beware.
Vatican says don't take "holy" water onto pope plane
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The Vatican has warned journalists
who will travel with Pope Benedict to Lourdes next month not to
put the revered water from the shrine in their hand luggage on
the papal plane or it may be confiscated.
Rat meat in demand in Cambodia as inflation bites
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The price of rat meat has quadrupled
in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond
the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
Charge dismissed in case of dog registered to vote
(AP)
AP - A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse.
Dutch say Pisa no longer Europe's most leaning tower
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Tower of Pisa is being
challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the
northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe's most steeply leaning
tower.
Nebraska city council votes to evict aging horse
(AP)
AP - This one-horse town is looking like becoming a no-horse town.
Shanghai police to shame jaywalkers on TV
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Shanghai police will post photos and
videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame
them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on
Thursday.
Feisty puppy scares off 3 bears in NJ back yard
(AP)
 AP - If only Goldilocks had a cockapoo.
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