A couple in Iowa are $100,000 richer after a mysterious man gave them a blank check in a café, telling them to write any amount they like. The couple, Alissa and Barry, said the man approached them at Dr. Salami's Cafe in Pella, Iowa and asked them if they had kids.

The brothers who escaped with injuries after being attacked by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day will be suing the zoo authorities for a security lapse. The brothers have hired one of the top lawyers of the country to represent them in court. Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal have appointed Mark Geragos to file a lawsuit on their behalf. Geragos is a celebrated lawyer, having represented high profile clients like Michael Jackson and Winona Ryder.

Two paintings were stolen from a Brazilian museum, including a Picasso, when thieves broke in Thursday morning. The break in lasted a total of three minutes, but that was enough for the thieves to make off with Picasso's "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch. " Candido Portinari's "O Lavrador de Cafe" was also stolen from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art. Investigators say the thieves appear to be professionals and used a car jack to pry into a metal pull-down gate over the museum's front door. Then, they broke two glass doors and took the paintings from the museum's second floor.

An Egyptian teacher who wears the niqab, an outfit usually black and covers the entire body including the face and reveals in some cases, only the eyes, paid an unemployed man to wear the clothing and take her driving test. However, when the man showed up to take the test, traffic security officers noticed his shoes and suspected a man was underneath the clothes. The man eventually cracked and confessed that the teacher paid him $120 to take the test for her. The woman, who had been waiting at a near by cafe, was arrested.

A man dubbed the "Hairy Christmas Fairy" is reportedly giving away thousands of dollars to help people pay for their Christmas shopping across Cornwall in southwest England. According to The Sun newspaper, the middle-aged man wears a pink fairy outfit that includes a tutu, a tiara, wings and wand.