Airport police are investigation how a man from Lima, Peru, boarded a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. , Tuesday with a small monkey hidden under his hat. The monkey, now nicknamed named "Spirit," could have easily gone unnoticed if he hadn't popped out of his owner's head and spotted by the other passengers in the plane.

Two young drivers were arrested over the weekend for speeding past police officers at 141 mph on I-5 in Snohomish County, Washington. The Washington State Patrol says that the trooper who arrested two men thought he was hearing an airplane early Sunday as the cars zoomed by him, heading north on the interstate highway.

Graciela Asturias, a 27-year-old architect from Manhattan got one of the most wonderful birthday presents of her life this Saturday when her now fiance proposed to her a thousand feet above the ground while floating in a airplane cabin. To celebrate Asturias' birthday, the couple boarded a specially designed Boeing 727 aircraft that creates the experience of microgravity during four-five minute plunges as it flies up and down between 24,000 and 35,000 feet. "I was so surprised. I'm in total shock," Asturias said as she recalled he memories of her big day to the New York Post.

A Japan-bound Vietnam Airlines plane was forced to remain grounded for nearly four hours after a passenger spotted a white mouse on the plane. The aviation authorities suspect the mouse might have hitched a ride aboard the plane in the hand luggage or pocket of one of the passengers and eventually escaped. The Boeing 777 from the central city of Da Nang landed at the Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport late Saturday and was scheduled to fly to Japan but the flight was delayed after a passenger aboard the plane reported the airplane crew of the mouse.

Scavenger hunters in Mexican wrestling masks will descend on downtown Montreal in the first-ever Faceless Invasion competition on March 31. Doing away with normal scavenger hunt items like "bus ticket", "chewed gum" and "airplane jet engine," the Faceless contest plans to take the tradition to a level it has never been before.