Research In Motion Inc. (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, apologized Monday for the more than two hours of service disruption that affected millions of its customers in the U. S. and Canada. According to Networkworld. com, the "service disruption" that affected RIM's infrastructure starting at 3:30 p. m. EST prevented BlackBerry phones from sending or receiving messages, browsing the Internet or using the BlackBerry Internet Service Web site.

An archbishop held a Sunday worship service sans crown, after the item was stolen from his car Friday night. Bishop Metropolitan Isaiah of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America commented on his appearance without his crown, noting it to have been the first time since 1985 that he led a Sunday service without it.

A $640 million Navy aircraft carrier that had just undergone a $216 million refitting job had to return to port just two days into its mission after its refrigerator broke down. Now it needs another $20,000 to have its fridge fixed. According to reports, the HMS Illustrious, equipped with hi-tech weaponry, was headed for the Indian Ocean with its nearly 1,000 crew when staff discovered problems with its fridge forcing the ship to head back to Portsmouth dockyard.

The remains of a giant rat, estimated to weigh about a ton, was discovered in Uruguay proving that mammoth rodent once roamed the face of the earth some four million years ago. Archaeologists said they have unearthed the half-meter long skull of the giant prehistoric rat, which by any standard, is bigger than a bull, in a chunk of rock in Rio de La Plata on the coast of Uruguay.

Scientists in Hungary are lost in quandary after a shark in a local aquarium gave birth to a pup without even having contact with a male shark. Staff of the Nyiregyhaza Centre said they were surprised when the seven-year old White-tipped reef shark gave birth to a pup even though the shark never had a male for a company.