Tickets for the world's first tourist space flight planned for 2008 have been snapped up by celebrities and royalty. The commercial spaceline said that tickets were sold to its first 150 passengers at $200,000 per ticket. Some of the takers were former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck, and a unidentified senior member of a royal family have all bought tickets for the world's first tourist space flights planned for 2008. Meanwhile, Bryan Singer, the director of "Superman Returns," has also signed up.

A group of Chinese monks have completed a special MBA course designed to help them mix business and prayer. Chinese state media say the newly graduated "business monks" are reflecting over their latest achievement. Shanghai's Jade Buddha Temple requested Jiaotong University to design a degree focusing on monastery management. According to the religious group, this degree would help monks to blend their daily monastic duties with business.

In a bout of satire, a Dutch design student set-up a fake online agency proposing advertising space on beer, cars and prostitutes' thighs and cleavage. On Raoul Balai's website www. instoresnow. nl, he also suggested painting brand names on zoo animals and huge billboards floating on beaches to get attention.

Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News ContributorThe idea recommended by Architect David Hertz, a specialist in using recycled materials, involves a jumbo jet, costing about 40,000 dollars from a cemetery, to be moved in parts to a 55-acre (22-hectare) site in the Malibu Hills near the Pacific Ocean.

A church located in the Midlands in England has been considered to be so ugly by the locals, that it hasn't held a wedding ceremony in years. It has even been described as the "architectural kiss of death" by its own vicar.