The latest look at shopping comes from Shermans Travel, which has put together its list of the top spots for "shopaholics. " The Thai capital Bangkok topped the list for its reputation as one of the best shopping destinations in Asia. Good finds in the city are high-quality silk, jewelry, and traditional crafts for a reasonable amount of money. Buenos Aires in Argentina is cited for its low cost leather products. Denmark's Copenhagen is among the top five for its wide-range of merchandise especially home accessories and glassware such as Holmegaard and Royal Copenhagen Porcelain.

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.

A 29-year-old man in Argentina can always credit the cell phone for saving his life after the surgeons used its light to complete the last 20 minutes of an emergency appendix operation following a power cut. The surgeons at the Policlinico Juan D. Peron hospital had no choice but to perform using the light of cell phone screens after the operating room lost power and the emergency generator too failed to work.

A tattoo artist from Argentina is facing a lawsuit after drawing a penis on the back of an Argentinean football fan instead of his favorite team's official logo. Reports said the teenager approached the tattoo artist and asked him to tattoo the logo of the Boca Junior football team on his back.

Mayor Jorge Telerman of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has installed two Web cameras and several microphones in his office so that his constituents can monitor everything that is going on inside the local chief executive's office in real time. The Web site dubbed "The Mayor's Reality Show," is reported to be a huge success with the public.