As Lehman Brothers was breathing its last gasp of air, two managers of state-owned KfW Development Bank plunked $503 million into the ailing company. This costly mistake led to their suspension Thursday.

Germany's Economy Minister Peter Glos and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck identified the bungling KfW management board members as Peter Fleischer and Detlef Leinberger. They will be suspended indefinitely until the incident is cleared.

German Education Minister Annette Schavan was criticized by the opposition for riding a military chopper instead of flying on a regular airline. For her trip to Zurich from Stuttgart to have a newspaper interview, German taxpayers had to shell out $39,179.

If she flew on a regular plane, the ticket would cost only $496.45 (329 euro). The trip covered 90.72 miles (146 kilometers).

Margaret Wegner, 59, will no longer have to suffer the chronic headaches and nosebleeds she has been subject to since she was 4. Thanks to advances in medical technology, doctors were able to remove almost all of the 3.1 inch long pencil that accidentally bored through Wegner's skin 55 years ago and eventually became lodged in her brain.

In an interview with a local newspaper, Wegner described the bizarre incident that how she fell over while carrying the pencil in her hand and accidentally stabbed herself in the head.

A German bus driver in the town of Lindau threatened to throw a 20-year-old woman off the bus because her cleavage was distracting him.

"Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman, known as Debora C said in an interview with the Bild newspaper.

When a drunk German man, identified only as Wolfgang H, found no parking place for his horse, he used a bank's automatic teller machine for that purpose.

The horse's owner apparently drank a bit too the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank's heated foyer. Talking to the Bild newspaper, the 40-year-old machinist said he had "a few beers" with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin.