People can buy many things in vending machines, from candy and chips to sandwiches, aspirin and now medicinal marijuana. Yep. Marijuana dispensing vending machines now exist. In California Anytime-Vending-Machines in secure rooms dispense marijuana to anyone with a doctor's prescription for the weed that is legal in that state for anyone with a medical need to take it.

After 16 years, a group of doctors finally relieved an ageing Croatian soldier of piercing stomach pains by removing a four-inch needle accidentally left inside his stomach when he was operated upon by a group of army doctors for wounds he sustained in the battlefield during the Yugoslavian civil war. Toma Zupan. Now 73, was seriously injured in 1991 after a civil war erupted during the break up of the former Yugoslavia.

A 24-year old woman died of burn injuries after her husband set her on fire on New Year's Eve in Sarangani province south of the Philippines. Berlin Alit died at the Ospital ng Sarangani before doctors could treat her burns, reported GMANews. TV quoting a radio report by DZRH on Tuesday.

A 24-year old singer from Lincoln, Nebraska has been suffering non-stop hiccups for the past 11 months. Chris Sands, 24, acquired the hiccups last February and has literally tried everything just to get rid of the hiccups that during severe attacks leave him unable to sleep, eat or even breathe properly. But all attempts to end the hiccups - even holding his breath and drinking from the wrong side of a glass - have been in vain.

A 50-year-old Vietnamese man, who had a buillet lodged lungs for almost three decades,had the bullet successfully removed Monday. Vu Van Thanh, was presented the bullet by his doctors at the Thanh Hoa hospital after the bullet was removed from him about two weeks ago.