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A man who heckled President Bush at a political rally was fired from his job at an advertising and design company for offending a client who provided tickets to the event.
The Supreme Court has quashed charges of obscene exposure levied against avant-garde theater director Gerald Thomas, who mooned an audience after an opera performance.
Police said two officers have been disciplined and department policy changed following an investigation into the officers use of a taser when arresting a 66-year-old grandmother who honked her car horn at a police cruiser.
A wood grouse, Europe's biggest game bird, attacked Jorun Lyngstad during a bike ride in the woods, ramming the off-duty officer from the side and sending her flying through the air.
A 20-ton piece of road machinery mowed down a fence and a couple of trees on property belonging to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld after the brakes apparently slipped and the machine rolled away.
Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.
Armed with laptops, modems, hard disk drives and sandwiches, 12 computer experts hunkered down for a seven-hour contest to find the best hacker in tech-savvy Singapore.
It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves red-handed, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
The Greek issue of Playboy remained on newsstands after a judge rejected a request for a temporary injunction filed by Athens Games' organizers over the magazine's use of Olympic symbols in a photo spread.
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