Scientists recently discovered fossils that completed the biological structure of a prehistoric giant toad the size of a slightly deflated beach ball. The animal, referred to by scientists as "Beelzebufo," or Devil Toad, measured 40 cm long and weighed 4 kg. This size made the toad to have been much larger than the Goliath Frog of West Africa, known today to be the world's largest toad.

A Valentine's Day art auction organized by U2 frontman and social campaigner Bono has raised more than $40 million for the United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa. The auction in New York sold modern works from Damien Hirst, Georg Baselitz, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Anish Kapoor and Jeff Koons.

ervelat, a favorite sausage of Swiss, is facing shortage. And before it totally disappears by the end of the year, meat producers have created 'task force cervelat' to save the national sausage. The task force comprised of scientists, industry players and bureaucrats is all set to address the shortfall of one of the sausage's main ingredient, the intestines of Brazilian cows.

Two British adventurers travelled 2,600 miles from Dorset, England to Timbuktu and back onboard a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry and Land Cruisers, using biodiesel made from waste chocolate. Andy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, set off from the latter's home at Poole, Dorset, on November 26 and arrived in Mali, West Africa on Boxing Day, overcoming sand storms and corrupt customs officials, and driving through a town where days later al-Qaeda terrorists shot dead a French family, to deliver a biodiesel processing unit and the vans to a charity.

A 7-year old boy announced his plans to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, after watching a news feature of a man who attempted to do the same, but failed. With his gear gathered, he is setting to scale the mountain for approximately five months, with the help of his father. Keats Boyd insisted on his aim, wanting to be "the youngest climber to ever reach the summit. "