A Nepali sports person, whose name was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records, for clocking the fastest run at the highest altitude, only learned about it eight years after setting the record. A news report published in The Kathmandu Post said the long distance runner, Hari Bahadur Rokaya was stunned when he found his name in the golden jubilee edition of the Guinness Book four months ago.

The owner of a McDonald's franchise in Southlake, Texas, has been sued by two women who claim to have found a dead rat in the salad bowl they purchased. However, the owner denies any charges in the court documents. According to the Fort-Worth Star Telegraph, the wife of former Cowboys wide receivers coach and passing-game coordinator Todd Haley, Christine, found a stiff dead roof rat after they began eating the salad.

A South Carolina principal was charged with hindering a police investigation after she allegedly told a cheerleading squad not to talk to police. Police were investigating a cheerleading coach who was accused of giving the girls alcohol. Coach Jill Moore was arrested last week and has since resigned from the position.

Authorities at a Thai zoo have put a male Panda on a low-carb diet regime to get him to mate. Officials at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand say that Chuang Chuang the Panda is too heavy to have sex and needs to lose weight to persuade his female counterpart to have sex. "Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him," Kanika Limtrakul, the chief veterinarian at the zoo told the AP, adding that Chuang Chuang weighed 331 pounds while Lin Hui is only 253 pounds.

29-year-old Rainer Schoenfelder didn't know he was being photographed as he skied down the Lauberhorn wearing only an orange helmet and yellow boots. The Austrian skier and world-cup racer, who had been experiencing pain since his crash in Turracher Hoehe, Austria, promised his physiotherapist that, if his pains eased up by January 9, 2007, he would ski naked. They did. So he did.