A controversial new "thrill ride," has been added to New York's Coney Island, only it's not actually a ride, and most would agree, there is no "thrill" in waterboarding. The store front attraction uses robots that look human to depict the act of waterboarding, a method of torture that gives the victim a feeling of drowning. A life size figure in a dark sweat suit and holding a bucket of water stands over a figure in an orange jump suit who is tied to a tilted board. Putting a dollar into a machine causes the robotic man in the sweat suit to dump water onto the face of the bound figure, whose face is covered by a towel. For 15 seconds, voyeurs watch the robot in the orange jumpsuit convulse.

After being berated by her parents who find her 'language' too difficult to understand, a schoolgirl has come up with a guide to teenage slang so her parents could understand her better. After writing "The A-Z of Teen Talk," 13-year old Lucy van Amerongen, from Box in Gloucestershire, is now "stoked" (very happy) because sales of her "nang" (cool) book are "owdish" (excellent).

A traveling exhibition based on broken relationships has arrived in Berlin where it is proving to be popular. Aptly named The Museum of Broken Relationships, it asks people in each city it comes to, to donate memorabilia of their terminated relationships, from brief flings to long painful divorces.

An airport inspector in Bogota, Colombia has reportedly stopped a plot to ship $300,000 worth of cocaine to Panama. The cocaine was hidden inside sets of false teeth. Colombian police said in a statement that there was 20 pounds of cocaine inside the dentures, which were seized at Bogota's El Dorado Airport. This is probably the newest and the most creative ways of smuggling cocaine.

Britain's Prince Charles' new waxwork was created in the 'greenest' way possible. Staff at London's Madame Tussauds museum took every effort to ensure the updated statue was as environmentally friendly as the 58-year-old royal himself. A source told Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "Tussauds thought it would be appropriate to ensure our Prince Charles was green.