For years, he's been known simply as the "Unknown Child". After what researchers say was a wrong identification in 2002, one of the smallest victims from the sinking of the Titanic has been given a new name. The remains of a child who died during the disaster was identified five years ago as that of Eino Viljami Panula of Finland. But, earlier this week, one of the Canadian researchers who identified the child in 2002 said the team was wrong and that the child is actually an English boy.

Zoologists in Australia are busy studying one of the largest ever giant squid that was found washed up on a beach on Thursday in southern Australia. The giant creature weighs some 550 pounds and stretched 26 feet from head to tentacle. The length is about as long as a school bus but zoologists say that it might have been even longer when it was alive, since the tentacles appeared to be badly damaged.

Police are investing a state forensic scientist who conducted a DNA test for her "personal" use related to divorce. Ann Chamberlain-Gordon, from Okemos, Mich. , used state laboratory equipment to perform a DNA test on her husband's underwear to find out if he was having sex with another woman.

There have been claims by many villagers in the remote north eastern Indian village about spotting "bigfoot"-type hairy giants, who are huge and are roaming in the jungles. Prompted by numerous such claims, the authorities in the area have ordered an investigation into the sightings in the Garo hills area of Meghalaya state, close to the borders with Bangladesh and Bhutan.

A German woman who claims Sir Paul McCartney sent a doppelganger to take a DNA test to prove he wasn't her father has had her case dropped. Bettina Hubers, 44, alleges McCartney - who she calls The Beatles' "cute one" - got her mother pregnant during a three-year affair in Hamburg. German prosecutors investigating fraud charges brought against the singer for allegedly sending a look-alike to the paternity test which took place in 1983 threw the case out of court on Friday, claiming the incident occurred too long ago.