Boston's rail commuters gave mixed reviews on the new seats of the Metro Boston Transit Authority's Blue Line cars. Some riders complained the new seats were too slippery, while others appreciated the wider space it offers. The new seats is made of fiberglass with a shape not fitting the human spine. The old model had soft vinyl seats, but narrower by 2 inches. Hence, only 35 passengers could sit per row in the new car compared to 42 riders before, regular commuters told the Boston Globe.

A 39-year-old homosexual threatened to sue medical staffs at a government hospital in the south of Manila, capital city,over a YouTube video clip of his rectal surgery, officials said Thursday. The YouTube video clip showed the medical staff laughing while removing the blue canister stuck from the patient's rectum during sexual intercourse, at the Vicente Sotto Medical Memorial Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City, south of the Philippines on January 3.

Impatient passengers led to delays in rush hour subway traffic on Tuesday, causing a slowdown that lasted almost four hour. The delay began when a packed subway train had to stop for an hour due to a malfunctioning train ahead. The passengers got anxious in the heat and stuffy atmosphere and left the train.

A 20-year-old cross dresser was arrested for crashing his car into a lingerie shop that had earlier turned down his job application. Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe said Jeremy Paul McIntosh was picked up by police after he deliberately drove his Geo Tracker into the Intimate Ideas lingerie store in this town 25 miles northwest of Detroit late Sunday.

Coffee made from beans that have passed through the bowel of an Indonesian jungle cat is being sold by a department store here for $100 a cup. The coffee, called Caffe Raro, is made from a blend of a rare Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, and another, Kupi Luwak, which is harvested from the droppings of civet cats.