China may be banning strange names by default, as they prepare to institute identity cards for its 1. 3 billion people. According to state media, the name database for new electronic identity cards will not contain uncommon characters.

In a tale worthy of a soap opera, China has executed a billionaire after he took out a contract to kill a man who was going to expose a previous attempt to murder another man. Yuan Baojing and two other men were executed in Liaoning Province, dying by means of lethal injection shortly after a public trial in Liaoyang City.

The first human body odor bank, located in eastern China, is one way for police to help their dogs get a scent for criminals. The facility has a collection of at least 500 different scents, which are meant to be compared to samples taken from a crime scene. The samples are kept at a chilling 0 degrees F. "This way the scent sample can maintain its freshness for at least three years," bank founder Song Zhenhua was quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying in the overnight report.

It may not be as malodorous as the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee, but this "bank" in eastern China has at least as many different smells. Police in the city of Nanjing are using the country's first human body odor bank to help train their dogs to find criminals.

A new tourist campaign for Australia gets the attention of potential visitors by swearing at them. The campaign, launched by Tourism Minister Fran Bailey, asks tourists, "Where the bloody hell are you?"