A prosthetic leg used by war hero Douglas Bader is being sold at an auction along with 42 pieces of his memorabilia. Phillip Knapper, from the auction house, said they expect the mementos belonging to the late war hero who became famous for continuing to fly for the RAF despite losing both legs in a plane crash to fetch over $200,000.

Without food and water for nearly two months, a cat accidentally locked in a garden shed by her owner survived by licking condensation off the windows. According to her owner, he had almost given up Emmy for lost after the ten-year old cat failed to show up.

A man from Washington went to the extreme of dramatizing his protest against what he called the commercialization of Christmas by nailing Santa Claus to a 15-foot crucifix in front of his house. Art Conrad even took a photo of his crucified Santa to adorn the Christmas cards he sent to friends and relatives with a message, "Santa died for your MasterCard. "Conrad said, "Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be. Now he's the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff. ''

Two tattoo artists from Cleveland on Wednesday broke the Guinness World Record for the longest tattooing session. John Cross made the tattoo on his boss, Aaron Favaloro, non-stop for 46 hours starting on Monday at the Skin Graphix Tattoo Studio in downtown Cleveland. The session beat the existing record of 43 hours and 50 minutes was set by Australians Stephen Grady and Melanie Grieveson on Aug. 26-28, 2006.

Brian Rush, 28, did not like the discipline of the seminary but he loved the perks of a priest. Rush, who quit the seminary after a month in 2006, dressed in black, wore a cross and a white strip of cardboard on his neck and went shopping at a local grocery store in Pittston.