The communist leaders in China have decided to tone down some of the "threatening" slogans used by the government to promote its one-child policy. Those to be removed include slogans such as. "One more baby means one more tomb;" "Raise fewer babies but more piggies;" and "House toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected. "

A Washington, DC man who purchased a Hummer despite being in an environmentally-conscious neighborhood only owned the vehicle for five days before someone vandalized it. Two masked men reportedly smashed the windows, slashed the tires and scratched into the body of the car a message: "For the Environ. "

Advocates of breast-feeding in the Philippines will try anew to break their own record set last year, by organizing the biggest simultaneous breast-feeding event on Wednesday. The Children for Breast-feeding, with its partner, Nurturers of the Earth, has invited mothers to participate in a simultaneous breast-feeding program in at least 40,000 day-care centers all over the Philippines.

A guard at Blue Earth County Jail has been suspended after he allegedly hit an inmate with a Bible. The 56-year-old officer's act was captured on video taken by a surveillance camera in the cell. The video clip showed James Lee Sheppard entering the cell of inmate Jeremy Hansen, 26, taking his Bible and striking it in his face, the Associated Press reports.

In one of the quickest scientific experiments, scientists have turned water into ice in nanoseconds, making the ice hotter than boiling water. The experiment was done at the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories. The experiment was successfully carried out by huge Z machine, which generates temperatures hotter than the sun thus setting a record here on Earth. Sandia researcher Daniel Dolan said, "Compressing water customarily heats it. But under extreme compression, it is easier for dense water to enter its solid phase [ice] than maintain the more energetic liquid phase [water]. "