Two Londoners who attempted to extort $100,000 (Ł50,000) from a Royal Family member have been sentenced to five years imprisonment in the first publicized case of "Royal Blackmail" since 1891. BBC said Friday that Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan were found guilty by the Central Criminal Court of trying to blackmail a member of the Royal Family by making public an eight-hour video of him allegedly taking drugs and performing oral sex on his aide.

Millions of British adults are becoming bad spellers and they are blaming this on predictive text functions of their mobile phones. In a study conducted by of spelling and grammar software firm whitesmoke. com 40 percent of the 2,500 surveyed could not spell "questionnaire", 38 percent misspell "accommodate" and 37 percent are confused by "definitely".

An Italian company specializing in coffins has come up with anovel idea of selling its products by unveiling its 2008 calendar with scantily-clad models posing behind its caskets. Maurizio Matteucci, owner of Cofanifunebri, said his calendars are available at his company outlets for $14. 23.

Chinese farmer Zhou Zhenglong, 52, has gone back into the wilderness to take more photos of the tiger, in an effort to refute accusations that the photo he earlier submitted was a fake. A former hunter in the Chengguan Township of Zhenping County, Zhou said that he planned to track down the tiger and bring back more photographs. He has been searching for tiger tracks for the past three days.

Eagerly wanting to help raise funds for her village football team, a 102-year old woman agreed to pose nude for a charity calendar along with 11 other ladies. Draped with a pink cloth around her shoulders, Nora Hardwick, posed behind the bar of the Ermine Way pub in Ancaster, Lincolnshire, as the calendar's Miss November.