Mary Armstrong celebrated her 90th birthday by skydiving 12,000 feet to the earth. It is her third charity jump, raising $1,900 for an animal charity. The proceeds of the jump will go to a horse, donkey and mule veterinary charity called The Brooke.

A rundown car described as the "biggest pile of crap on Ebay" finds fame on the Internet by generating 34,000 hits and selling for about $549. The surprising popularity of the entry prompted the owner to turn it into an event for charity. The owner is Jason McCluskey, 31, a chef from Portsmouth on the southern English coast. He had listed his beat up 1985 Volkswagen Polo for sale starting at 12 cents for "a bit of light-hearted humor".

According to sources, western Indian villagers have started idolizing rock fragments from a meteor shower. Some villagers imagine that the meteorites are the rocks that Rama, the Ramayana's Hindu epic hero, gathered to make the bridge to rescue his kidnapped wife. The Times of India reported that the villagers of Gujarat state's Kutch region have been searching for rock fragments after a meteor shower made streaks of light over three populated districts late Monday.

To obtain a different cool taste and global appeal, a Greenland brewery has declared it will make beer with pure water from an ice cap. "This is an old dream finally coming true," Greenland Brewhouse co-owner Steen Outzen told AFP Wednesday. "Our aim is to make a unique, very high-quality beer. "

A pigeon that landed on a high-tension electricity wire resulted in a short-circuit that stopped Denmark's train network from functioning. The bird is presumed to have been fried on the overhead cables ensuing the outage in the train's main line after.