The Berlin Zoo's polar bear cub, Knut, has risen to fame ever since his picture appeared on Vanity Fair cover with Leonardo DiCaprio. The cub, which has his own line of souvenirs now, has nearly 15,000 people come to the zoo every day. The 4-month-old polar bear has stuffed toys selling in his name at the rate of 800 a day. Not only this, the amazingly adorable cub also has T-shirts, key chains, coffee mugs and other kitsch to his name in the market.

A businessman who sold condoms in a shop in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang was shut down by government officials for selling the latex products without instructions and with images deemed offensive, including the image of former Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong, a state newspaper said Tuesday. Having received numerous complaints about shop owner Zhang Zhiwen's condoms, which bear the likeness of several People's heroes, the industry and commerce administration raided the business and ordered the man to close down.

Online users are taking a stab at President George W. Bush with pranks. One elaborate antic links the search term "miserable failure" to the official White House biography of the 43rd U. S. president.

An American tycoon who owns a Picasso painting, with an estimated value of $138. 26 million, was forced to pull out of a deal to sell the painting after he punched a hole through it with his elbow. According to BBC, Steve Wynn was showing his guests "Le Reve" (The Dream) in his office in Las Vegas when he accidentally hit the painting with his elbow.

Artist Picasso's famous "Dream" painting was poked with a hole the size of silver dollar by Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn. He had accidentally elbowed the multimillion dollar canvas. Wynn had just sold the painting for $139 million to another collector when the incident occurred while he was showing the painting to friends at his Las Vegas office.