A woman never stopped talking on her cellphone as she robbed four banks in the Washington D. C. suburbs, a sheriff's spokesman says on Friday. In the most recent heist, the woman walked up to a bank teller in Ashburn, Virginia on November 4 and opened her purse to show a handgun and a note demanding cash, says Loudoun County sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell.

Two Oregon couples are the winners of the second-biggest jackpot in U. S. lottery history: $340 million. Lottery officials confirm Steve West, his wife, Carolyn, and his in-laws, Bob and Frances Chaney, are the owners of the winning ticket in the Oct. 19 Powerball drawing.

That includes six tickets that each won $250,000. Since no ticket matched all six numbers, the jackpot grows to an estimated $147 million for the Friday, October 28, 2005 drawing.

A young boy cried as Pope Benedict XVI greeted him in a hospital near the Vatican, who he mistook for a doctor because of his long white robe. "It's the white," a nurse explained to the Pope. "He can't take anymore of these white coats. "

A young boy cried as Pope Benedict XVI greeted him in a hospital near the Vatican, who he mistook for a doctor because of his long white robe. "It's the white," a nurse explained to the Pope. "He can't take anymore of these white coats. "