Children at an Irish primary school have been told to bring in their own toilet roll.

Pupils at a St John's girls' school in Carrigaline have been asked to help the educational centre help cut costs and beat the recession by providing their own toilet tissue.

A US banker dubbed 'Robin Hood' has been sent to prison for a year.

Bank manager Patricia Keezer was sentenced to spend 12 months and one day behind bars after stealing $340,000 from rich customers and transferring the funds into bank accounts belonging to poorer clients.

A Swedish woman's pet cats are secretly two ninja fighters.

Mats Hamnas has snapped the fluffy felines scrapping at the bottom of her garden and performing a series of moves which look uncannily like martial arts moves.

A wife in the Philippines watched her US home being robbed on webcam.

Maribel Chouinard was viewing footage of her husband Jim's home online when she witnessed three people breaking into the Oklahoma flat.

Maths teacher Christy Harp has grown a 1,725lb giant pumpkin.

The US woman from Ohio took first place at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers' annual competition recently.

A driving lesson on Good Luck Road ended in disaster when the learner crashed into an apartment.

Police in Lanham, Maryland, say the unlucky accident occurred when a man - who was being taught to drive by his friend - unintentionally crashed his minivan through the wall of Robert Scriber's home.

A human lung has been stolen from a travelling Peruvian body exhibition.

The left organ - which had been preserved through a special scientific process which replaces water with stronger polymers - was travelling the world as part of 'Bodies: The Exhibition' when it was stolen.