Police in Alice Springs say they were appalled to find a driver put a seatbelt around a carton of beer - but left a five-year-old child unrestrained.

Officers stopped the unregistered sedan on the Ross Highway south of Alice Springs on the weekend.

A Vietnamese man in Norway lost around 35,000 dollars after he was led to believe that mixing the cash with a special liquid would double its value, Norwegian media reported Saturday.
A 32-year-old Frenchman is set to stand trial in a lower court near Oslo next week on charges that he cheated a gullible Vietnamese man out of 180,000 kroner (35,00 dollars, 23,000 euros)

Burma’s horror could have been avoided if the country’s paranoid military rulers had listened to the warnings they had been given well before the approach of Cyclone Nargis.

According to Hollywood Today one of the leading contenders for American idol could lose because he chose a Bob Marley song. I shot the Sheriff (and myself in the foot!)