Heterosexuals have been banned from staying at a gay hotel in Australia after the Victorian state Civil and Administrative Tribunal agreed to give the hotel the right to bar people from entering if the management considers them a threat to the safety and comfort of its patrons. The management of the Peel Hotel complained that the hotel's straight visitors created "a poisonous atmosphere" for its gay clientčle and asked that they be given the right to keep them out. According to BBC, the management said the ban would prevent straight men and women from abusing the hotel's gay customers.

A Cornish man claimed to have kept awake for 11 days straight in an attempt to better the Guinness record for sleep deprivation. The 42-year-old horticulturist, Tony Wright had begun his "stay awake" program on May 14 as part of his research on relationship between physical state and sleep. He had undertaken similar experiments in the past but for lesser durations.

In an one of its kind festival, more than 300 people on Saturday gathered at Mama's Place Bar and Grill in Elderon, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a feast comprising of some unusual delicacies - deep-fried lamb and bull testicles. While some may consider the dish a food taboo, the attendees of the ninth annual Testicle Festival at Mama's say it is just as tasty as any other food. Buster Hoffman, 50, of Kronenwetter was one of those who paid $5 for all-you-can-eat goat, lamb and bull testicles.

Police are conducting an internal investigation of a veteran Napa County sheriff's deputy after he left his fully loaded gun in a restaurant bathroom of the Tradewinds Bar in downtown Cotati late Friday. According to police reports, the out-of-uniform officer, whose name has not been released, forgot his loaded service revolver in the restroom after he stopped in the bathroom of a bar and restaurant and then headed home.

A 34-year-old mother and her teenage daughter are arrested for stealing from an out-of-town businessman they met in a bar. Eugenia Garrison and her 14-year-old daughter met a man from Texas in a local bar Monday night who brought them back to his hotel room. The man told police that when he was in room with the duo, he saw the girl steal $360 from his dresser and make a run for it. When he tried to stop the young girl, she said she would claim he raped her.