It's the battle of the better shoe as a sleepy, southern German town is split between which athletic footwear company best fits their feet - Puma or Adidas. In Herzogenaurach, Germany, alliances run strong as the city is split in two - with each having its own bakers, butchers, bars, and schools - thanks to go the 60-year-old family feud between Puma and Adidas.

Four inmates, including the leader of a violent gang that abducted and killed the son of a former Honduran president, escaped from prison on Tuesday. According to Rafael Castro, the inmates all used makeshift saws to cut the bars to their cells and used the sound of the rain to disguise the noise of the escape. However, he also stated that some of the guards may have helped in the escape.

A court in Spain has bared a man from seeing his dog following a divorce. At first, the Spanish man was awarded visitation rights by a court in Barcelona.

In a move to protect their business, Australian brothel proprietors want the country to adjust its anti-smoking laws so that sex workers and their clients can smoke while fornicating. The Australian Adult Entertainment Industry wrote to the authorities, requesting that a law which bars smoking at work places be exempted for brothels.

In response to Pope Benedict's ongoing visit to Poland, authorities have placed a temporary ban on sexy ads and liquor across regions the Pope plans on visiting. According to Reuters, sexy ads like that of a woman's nude backside and thigh on a huge poster were wrapped, when a Roman Catholic group denounced them as offensive to the Pope's trip. Even newspapers held off on publishing their usual photos of topless beauty queens, which always appear on the back pages of many Polish tabloids.