A local judge has suspended payment of a $1. 4 million bingo win, since the family can not decide how to split the prize. The big winner at Friday's Forge bingo hall in Glasgow is Jean McCullagh, 69-year-old from Uddingston, Lanarkshire.

A collector, Todd McDevitt, bought a near-mint copy of Detective Comics No. 27, a pre-World War II comic featuring Batman's debut, found recently in an attic. McDevitt would not say how much he paid for the comic or who he bought it from but believes the issue to be worth around $250,000.

Zimbabwe's central bank governor is asking for limits and controls on the price of beer. He said cheap lager was responsible for turning the country into a nation of drunkards. In June the price of beer and other commodities were cut by the government in an attempt at at staving off inflation. Current estimates now have levels at 6,500 percent. Reports out of the country say that a pint of lager is now only available in hotels and is cheaper to buy than a bottled of mineral water.

he Chinese government announced a nation-wide crackdown on Chinese citizens who violate the country's one-child policy. China's 28-year-old child limit policy bans most urban families from having more than one child, although, families who live in the countryside are sometimes permitted to have a second child if their first is a girl.

olice had an easy time arresting a bank robber in Englewood, Colorado after he used his own account check as a note to demand money from a teller. A man walked into the Bank of the West on September 5 and gave the teller a note written on a bank check that said, "Give me all the money in your drawer Now!"