According to the Philippine Army, its unpaid electricity bill now amounts to $154,799. Army spokesman Lt. Col. Ernesto Torres Jr. said the Army is validating the bill before paying it. However, Torres said if the Army fails to settle the bill promptly, military bases around the country will lose access to electricity and be forced to resort to standby generators for power. The Philippine Army has 80 battalion headquarters nationwide, excluding brigades and divisions. Torres said the PA has an annual budget for electricity consumption, but he said the increasing use of electricity by various Army field units means the military may not be able to cover the bill with its current funds.

The American NGO, which distributed free laptops to the Nigerian school children under One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) surely did not expect that their donation would be used for the surfing of pornographic sites. State run media in Nigeria reports that the children in various schools, who have such laptops and Internet, are using these free laptops to browse porn sites over the Internet.

Police arrested a 45-year-old man after a 90-minute rampage through Sydney's western suburbs in an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) on Saturday. Police cars followed the APC as it destroyed six mobile phone towers and damaged an electricity sub-station. Police were finally able to arrest the man after the APC stalled, as it was heading towards another electricity sub-station.

Two elderly women who are the only living souls in the remote Serbian village of Grade have become famous for not speaking to each other and insulting one another in a local newspaper. In a report by ananova. com, the two women were identified as Ruzica Markovic and Ljubica Paunovic, both from the Grade, the smallest village in Serbia. It was said the two women had a falling out three years ago when one of them insulted the other's cow.

The local council at Tower Hamlets in East London, England has ordered its staff not to put up Christmas decorations in the office to prevent injury. The council also bans the use of festive lights because they are too costly on electric bills, it was reported.