A 62-year-old ex-felon who claims to be the second coming of Jesus Christ says he has as many as 1 million followers in 30 countries. Jose de Jesus, who is now living outside Houston, Texas, said he married twice, smokes and likes Scotch. ABC News quotes de Jesus as saying that he grew up in poverty, had a heroin addiction and spent nine months in prison for eight felony charges along the way. However, the man who claims to be Jesus says he never gets drunk just as the original Jesus.

A beaver was spotted in New York City Wednesday for the first time on record since the early 1800s. Earlier this week the male beaver's twig and mud home, or "beaver lodge," was seen on the bank of the Bronx River, but no one had set eyes on the beaver himself until biologists from the Bronx Zoo videotaped it swimming in the river on Wednesday. Beavers were common in the early days of New York City, but they disappeared over time, mostly due to trappers who were interested in their fur.

On January 10, 2007, the FBI hosted its first workshop, "FBI - Crime Essential for Writers" at the Federal Building in Westwood. Betsy Glick, FBI public affairs specialist, is one of the creators of the workshop. According to her, the FBI has aided in the content in over 659 projects in film, books, and television.

A zoo in Australia is putting humans on public display in one of its orangutan enclosures for a month-long experiment that's been titled "the human zoo. " Groups of people taking part in the experiment will be locked in the enclosure during the zoo's opening hours for a week, and the public will be able to observe them through large perspex windows and live webcams. As of Tuesday evening, six people had put themselves in the orangutan enclosure at Adelaide Zoo. Animal behaviorists will be studying the caged humans to try to find ways to improve the living conditions of captive great apes.

A Californian mom was shocked when the Little Mermaid Shimmering Lights Ariel doll of her daughter said something much more derogatory that the usual phrases, "Your sparkles are so beautiful," "Life is the bubbles" and "You're a wonderful friend. " The mother wrote her allegation in a local newspaper report when the doll of her 3-year-old daughter said, "You're a slut. "