Oliver, the white-faced capuchin monkey at zoo in Mississippi has led the officials on a chase after managing to unlock his pen and escape. The Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo asked residents Tuesday to help in the recovery of this monkey who escaped at about 8 a. m. The capuchin monkey is a species of monkey native to South and Central America. Park officials believe that Oscar could have escaped to a nearby country club.

The first of some 29,000 rubber ducks that have been circling the world's oceans for 15 years are expected to wash up on a beach in England sometime soon. The toys fell overboard from a cargo ship bound for Seattle from China in 1992, according to the BBC.

A Carbondale, Colo. man who could hear crazy noises in his head was shocked to discover that his skull was infested with fly larvae. Aaron Dallas suffered from bleeding bumps on his head, which moved and caused terrible irritation to him.

A Philadelphia Court Judge on Tuesday acquitted a 20-year-old Rittenhouse Square singer from all charges after a police officer arrested him for singing too loudly in the park. "A Change Is Gonna Come" singer Anthony Riley was jailed for refusing to succumb to a police officer's demand that he stop singing too loudly and faced a three-month sentence for the March 27 incident.

In a bid to protest the decline in the number of users opting for print reading, a used-books store owner in mid-town Kansas City, Missouri, is planning to stage a monthly book burning bonfire. Tom Wayne of Prospero's Books made several attempts to give away thousands of books lying in his warehouse, but after even libraries and thrift shops showed their unwillingness to accept them he decided them to put on fire. "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," AP quoted Wayne as saying to the spectators as he staged the first book bonfire outside his bookstore on Sunday.