A 26-year-old man set a new Guinness World Record by making the largest rubber ball ever from more than 175,000 rubber bands. It weighs 4,594-pounds and stands 5 1/2 feet high and 19 feet round. "The rubber bands . . . sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton. "As long as you wear your safety goggles, you're good. "

An Illinois woman recently got her high school class ring back after more than two decades. Laura Durham of Belvidere, Ill. , remembers taking off the class ring, and several others, just before she got into a car accident in July 1984. The jewelry was later discovered by Bob Windsor, who worked at the salvage yard in South Beloit, Ill. , where Durham's car was taken after the crash. He added the rings to his coin collection, intending to find the owner someday.

British writer Lynne Truss has set up a Web site featuring a collection of funny examples of misplaced punctuation. The author of the popular 2003 book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance to Punctuation" delights in grammatical errors that completely change the intended meaning of written communication. For example, Truss publishes an item on a restaurant menu gone wrong. What was supposed to be "Goat Cheese Salad . . . tomato, onions, goat cheese" turned into something else entirely with a couple of extra s's and an erroneous additional comma: "Goats Cheese Salad . . . tomatoes, onions, goats, cheese. "

An Australian man could be persecuted for allegedly sending two billion spam emails advertising Viagra. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) announced that it obtained a search warrant to inspect the home as part of the spam investigation.

A Nepali boy's hope of being declared the world's shortest man was dismissed on Monday by Guinness World Records saying he was too young to qualify. The 14-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar, who is only 20 inches tall and weighs just 10 pounds, will heave to wait another four years before he can be considered for the record. Thapa's family and local people had even set up a foundation in Thapa's name to collect funds for the infant-sized boy. They said they had raised around $4,000 so far by organizing shows where people can watch him dance and play.