It was in invitation no thief could ever refuse. The organizers of the Basel Shift Festival found this out when a thief ran off with the book titled "Steal this Book. "

The oldest known complete copy of Quran written in 1203, has been auctioned and sold for $2. 3 million in London, England on Tuesday. Christie auction house said the sacred book, which auctioneers believed to be sold at $715,000 fetched at least $2,327,300 when auction ended in London.

A climber who was told he would never be able climb again after he lost his fingers and toes to frostbite eight years ago, has become the first Briton to complete the 7x7 peaks challenge. Nigel Vardy, who nearly died in 1999 while ascending Mount McKinley in Alaska, has claimed a place in the record books by scaling the seven highest peaks on the world's seven largest islands.

n a country where most people live on just a dollar or less a day, an 11-year-old boy who gathers discarded plastic bottles for money returned the equivalent of over $400 USD that he found on the road. Gicoven Abarquez is penniless, malnourished and has never owned a pair of shoes. He works the streets of Dagupan City in northern Philippines to help his parents make ends meet. He is one of the thousands of Filipino boys, some barely in their teens, who go to school and also work collecting discarded plastic containers to sell back to recycling centers.

Two newly-wed Chinese hope to land in the record books as the world's shortest couple. After postponing their marriage for three years, Li Tangyong, 3 feet 6 inches, of Shunde City, finally married Chen Guilan, 2 feet 3 inches, Oct. 1 joining 30 other couples in a group wedding at a park in the city.