A woman convicted of murder was given permission to take her infant daughter to prison with her, enabling her to look after the baby during her four-year sentence. Imprisoned for fatally shooting her common-law husband in their Prince George home back in 2006, Lisa Anne Whitford, 37, gave birth to her baby last March, while she was being held in custody.

An 80-year old woman was attacked by an 18-year old man, but ended up holding the attacker's gun and pointing it directly at him. The gun slipped out of the man's grip and fell on the floor during a scuffle. The woman managed to grab it and use it to threaten the man intending to run away with her purse.

fter their widely popular 'Thriller' dance video attracted over 10 million on YouTube, inmates at a prison in Cebu, Philippines are at it again; this time with their dance number that will be performed during the Sinulog Festival honoring the baby Jesus on January 20. Around a hundred dancing inmates of the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) participated in a video posted at YouTube on December 21. It is only been viewed a couple of thousand times, compared to the 'Thriller' (Michael Jackson's hit song) video posted in August last year, which has been viewed over 10 million times worldwide.

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.

A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man complained that an all-you-can-eat buffet overcharged him and an in-law, accusing the restaurant of discriminating them because of their size. Ricky Labit made the accusation against the Manchuria Restaurant located in Houma, at which he had been a regular for eight months. According to him, as he and his wife's cousin were about to eat their meal, a waitress then delivered a bill for $46. 40, which was double the usual charge for the adult buffet price.