An amorous peacock had an aristocrat fuming mad after it caused a $8,100 damage to his employee's blue Lexus car - by trying to have sex with it. According to a local paper, Baronet Sir Benjamin Slade has put in a claim to insurers to cover the damage to his employee's car.

Saying he just wants to help her prepare to achieve her dream of someday swimming across the English Channel, a father tied his daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours Tuesday. In an interview, Huang Daosheng said her daughter, Huang Li, 10, swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling with the current.

A Royal Air Force fighter jet on a routine flight has accidentally dropped a 14kg practice bomb on Scotland Monday. The RAF said it has no idea whether the device survived the fall and have yet to locate the bomb. Nevertheless, it is warning the public against touching it.

A man who was more afraid of fellow drug dealers than he was of the law was arrested after the 68 pounds of cocaine he had reported missing was found by Boy Scouts. Leroy Carr, 46, told Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he had stashed two blue backpacks full of cocaine by the entrance to a Boy Scout camp near the Canadian border on Aug. 3, but when he went back the next day to get them, they were gone.

A man who was more afraid of fellow drug dealers than he was of the law was arrested after the 68 pounds of cocaine he had reported missing was found by Boy Scouts. Leroy Carr, 46, told Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he had stashed two blue backpacks full of cocaine by the entrance to a Boy Scout camp near the Canadian border on Aug. 3, but when he went back the next day to get them, they were gone.