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.

During a trip to Germany, Kazakhstani minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev says the "mocumentary" Borat, simply doesn't make him laugh. The film, which depicts Kazakhstan as a backwards, antisemitic and misogynistic former Soviet republic, will likely be banned from theaters in the small Asian nation.

Michael Koenig, a German plastic surgeon who was cheated out of payment by several women who got breast implants from him has given pictures of their enlarged breasts to police as a way to identify them. Koenig, a surgeon in Cologne, told Bild newspaper, "The women registered under fake names. After the operations, which lasted about an hour, they just ran away. "