The Guinness Book of World Records confirms that a Hawaiian woman has grown the world's heaviest mango. Weighing 5 pounds, 7 ounces, the mango is about the size of a human head.

A 12-year-old boy visits a Detroit museum with his school and decides to stick gum on a $1. 5 million painting. Museum officials tell the Detroit Free Press the boy took a piece of gum out of his mouth and put it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 painting, "The Bay. "

The Detroit Institute of Arts is stuck having to repair a painting worth $1. 5 million. It has to remove a stain left by a wad of gum stuck on the painting by a 12-year-old visitor. Museum officials say the boy was with a group from Holly Academy in Oakland County, Mich. , when he took the gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay. "

British high school students will be able to get class credit for puppet shows in a government plan being considered for 2008. High school students will be able to get credit for a project that is "a single piece of work requiring detailed planning, preparation and independent study" and education officials said that included works of art, plays and puppetry, according to published reports.

A French court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal with a hammer. The attacker of the famed avant-garde Dada work defended himself against the charges by saying he had increased the value of the art work by making it "original. "On Tuesday the court sentenced Pierre Pinoncelli to a three-month suspended prison sentence and ordered him to pay a $245,490 fine. A judge also ordered Pinoncelli to pay $17,616 to repair "Fountain," a work some art enthusiasts value to be in the millions of dollars.