A love struck swan has spent past three weeks flirting with a swan shaped paddle boat on a pond in the German town of Muenster, a sailing instructor said on Friday. According to Reuters report, Peter Overschmidt, who operates a sailing school and rents the two-seat paddle boat on the Aasee pond, said the black swan with a bright red beak seems to protect the vessel as it "sits next to it all the time and chases away any sail boats that get anywhere nearby. "

The judges for The Turner Prize announced Tuesday that sculptures of cartoon-like women with huge knobby breasts and disco-dancing Palestinians are among the works shortlisted for Britain's most prestigious and controversial art award. Abstract painter Tomma Abts, video installation artist Phil Collins, billboard artist Mark Titchner and sculptor Rebecca Warren have been nominated for the 25,000-pound (47,000-dollar) award, says AFP.

A 59-year-old man from New Alexandria nabbed a monster fish - a 49-inch-long carp that unofficially weighs 54 pounds, 4 ounces. Dennis Russian is said if the fish Russian shot with a fiberglass arrow weighs the same on state-approved scales, it would be a Pennsylvania record.

A five-member team from the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group visited Mystic Seaport on Friday night to spend time on the Charles W. Morgan, a wooden whaling ship where several visitors have reported seeing ghosts. The 165-year-old craft made 37 ocean voyages in search of whales during the 60 years it was in use. About 1,000 men worked on the Morgan over those decades.

Frog dinners sustained a man trapped on a small island after a local flood wiped him out of the forests. Zdenek Bucek was taking a short-cut through the woods near the southeastern town of Breclav when, according to the daily Pravo, he was swept away by a wave of water.