We arrived in the town of Sta. Ana in Cagayan Valley, the northernmost tip town in the Philippines at 3 a. m. in the morning. The first thing we noticed was the eerie sound of the place, or better yet, the lack of any sound of life. There were no lamp post and all we saw was darkness. The only light available was emanating from the vehicle we were using. We drove for another half an hour and still all we saw was darkness, we didn't see any houses or any other living soul. For someone who has lived in the city all his life, the environment in Sta. Ana was a strange one to me. I came from the capital where the city never sleeps and that has been the case even in some provinces I have visited, this is the only town I have been to where all I heard was the sound of silence even at that hour of the morning.

A German bus driver in the town of Lindau threatened to throw a 20-year-old woman off the bus because her cleavage was distracting him. "Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman, known as Debora C said in an interview with the Bild newspaper.

Zoologists in Australia are busy studying one of the largest ever giant squid that was found washed up on a beach on Thursday in southern Australia. The giant creature weighs some 550 pounds and stretched 26 feet from head to tentacle. The length is about as long as a school bus but zoologists say that it might have been even longer when it was alive, since the tentacles appeared to be badly damaged.

Police in Logan, Utah have reportedly banned a 76-year-old woman from the bus station after she was found giving unwanted birth-control advice to mothers with many children. Laura Stevens, who was arrested Tuesday for trespassing, a misdemeanor, says the arrest is "wrong and a violation of my First Amendment rights. " She also added that she will fight the charges when she appears in Logan's Municipal Court on Tuesday.

Professor Nilli Lavie of University College London said a test for a person's ability to become distracted can weed out those who are applying for high risk jobs like air traffic controller and bus drivers. Employers are now able to offer tests that are accurate and unable to be doctored. In fact, Lavie said many people think they've done very well on the test when if fact their attention was compromised.