Thousands gathered in North Dakota over the weekend in an attempt to break the world record for making the most snow angels. More than 8,900 people were at the state Capitol Saturday to make the angels and reclaim the record. North Dakota held the original snow angel record that was set in 2002 with 1,791 snow angels. But last year, Michigan took the record away with 3,784. So, North Dakota planned a comeback.

A Norwegian appeal court ruling has declared that striptease is an art and should therefore be exempt from value-added tax (VAT). Three judges ruled unanimously that "striptease, in the way it is practiced in this case, is a form of dance combined with acting. " It was compared to other stage acts that enjoy VAT exemption in Norway.

Police said that a baby-sitter botched her first day on the job, when she accompanied home the wrong 5-year-old from elementary school. Sgt. David Cannan said that the woman escorted Angel Guerrero from school without checking out what the child she was going to take care of looked like. When Angel's grandmother came to pick-up the boy, she was told that someone already did. The police issued a missing child alert for the boy with his name and photograph on several TV channels.

A baby sitter's first day on the job turned into a frightening experience after she picked up the wrong boy from school. The woman picked up 5-year-old Angel Guerrero by mistake and took him to her house. Sgt. David Cannan said she did not know what the child she was supposed to care for looked like.

The annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize went to an opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel. The winning entry written by a retired mechanical designer Jim Guigli of California, read:"Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean. " The contest challenges entrants to submit their worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel.