After his diplomatic faux pas in Afghanistan which revealed Canadian meddling into Afghan internal politics, Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier is hogging the headlines again. This time over a former girlfriend who has been linked to a biker gang. Bernier's ex was Julie Couillard, a former model and aspiring actress, who had relationships with two men linked with the Hells Angels biker gang.

A total of 30 pans were reportedly stolen from a Pizza Hut. According to local officials, the incident was first discovered when pizza store employees arrived for work to discover that all of the pans needed to make pizzas had disappeared.

A man from North Potomac, Maryland made a goldmine out of the domain name he had been maintaining since 1994 for $20 a year after the web address sold for $2. 6 million in an online site that auctions domains. Chris Clark's pizza. com received the highest bid from an anonymous bidder when the auction closed Thursday. The bidding ran for a week.

A recent survey revealed that those who spend a reasonable amount of money on other people experience greater elation than those who buy things for themselves. Scientists from the Harvard Business School gathered 632 Americans and questioned them about their income, their spending habits, and their level of happiness. Separately, the experts gathered 16 professionals up for a bonus between $3,000 and $8,000, and asked them similar questions six to eight weeks before, and after the bonus.

The closure of Interstate 95 for two days caused huge traffic congestion for a two mile stretch. The north east corridor was ordered to close down for emergency repairs. The closure affected both the northbound and the southbound lanes of the highway north of the city's central business district. Gene Blaum, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spokesman told the Associated Press, "Obviously we feel it could compromise the strength of that section of the highway. The section of the interstate carries about 190. 000 vehicles a day, making the repair a major undertaking"