India's lucrative outsourcing sector is not limited to back office jobs. It is now emerging as a major supplier of "back bedroom jobs" as an infant outsourcing hub as well. According to the International Herald Tribune, reproduction is the newest addition to the Asian tiger's outsourcing industry. Couples from the United States and Europe are asking Indian women to serve as surrogate mothers, leading to a boom in the number of clinics offering the procedure.

Instead of devouring her for his meal, an eagle decided against hunger and instead opt for companionship by keeping his dinner rabbit for a friend. The owner of a stall in Beizhamen Bird Market, Zhengzhou City, China, said he put the rabbit in the eagle' cage to feed the bird or prey.

A ton of live snakes have been discovered by Vietnamese Customs officials onboard a plane from Bangkok. Custom officials said the snakes were contained inside 60 boxes marked 'fresh fish,' onboard the cargo hull of a Thai Air plane.

A training manual issued by Canada's Foreign Affairs Department lists Guantanamo Bay, the U. S. detention camp in Cuba, as a suspected torture and abuse site - alongside Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Syria. A Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, awaits trial in Guantanamo for allegedly killing an American medic in Afghanistan in 2002 and has been in detention for five years since he was 15 years old, CBC News reported.

The world's first playable ice piano has been unveiled at the 20th International Snow-Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin city. According to local reports, the ice piano, which was designed and built by a local landscaping company, can automatically play more than 30 classic piano pieces.