Almost half of young Brits don't know how to boil an egg. The survey, conducted by British Egg Information Service to mark the Farmhouse Breakfast Week, revealed that only 51 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds are aware that it only takes three minutes to soft-boil an egg.

A 53-year old housewife used her underwear to put out a fire that threatened the family home. Jenny Marsey said her son and nephew grabbed her size 18 - 20 cotton lingerie from a pile of washing, doused them in water, and threw them over the fire which broke out while they were trying to fry some bread.

A woman who found a severed mouse head in a can of green beans is not biting the offer from an Arkansas company for USD100 provided she pledges not to take legal action. While the letter from Allens Inc. of Siloam Springs, Ark. , describes the offer as a "gesture of goodwill," Marianne Watson said isn't interested.

Fearing a chemical attack, police did everything to evacuate a busy London street, only to find out later the cause of the commotion: A Thai restaurant's spicy chilli sauce. Local police had to close off three roads and evacuated homes as a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over the streets of Soho for three hours.

A Thai chef in London triggered fears of a chemical attack among local restaurant patrons when smoke from his eye-watering hot chilli sauce led to the emergency services being called out Wednesday, reports said. The Thai chef Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon, who works at the Thai Cottage restaurant in the entertainment district of Soho, was cooking up bird's eye chillies as he prepared a huge batch of nam prik pao, a Thai's cuisine exotic food, an extra-hot dip served with prawn crackers.