Some British police were forced to learn to speak a bit of Dutch in order to command their German Shepherds trained in the Netherlands. German Shepherds in Britain are scarce, thus the need to import dogs from continental Europe.

Stalin-era Hawaiian-styled surf songs, mixed by a Russian DJ are taking over the airways in Eastern Europe, with also thousands of copies flying off the store shelves as well. Gulag Tunes, created by Mikhail Antipov, is a collection of Stalin-era prison songs mixed with Hawaiian surf music, with the cover album showing Stalin draped in a Hawaiian-style garland of skulls.

A new species of tiny dinosaurs has been found in Germany. Only a few meters tall, the sauropod type creatures are believed to be long-necked, four-footed herbivores.

Another championship ring from Arkansas' 1994 basketball team is being auctioned. Last month, a Razorbacks' championship ring and hardcover book sold for $21,700 on eBay. The seller remained anonymous. That's the case this time, too. The ad on eBay for the ring says it came from a starting player on Arkansas' 1993-94 and 1994-95 teams.

A raccoon survived 11,000 volt electric shock when it was ran up a pylon. The mammal triggered a two-hour power outage at the town of Aradippou in southeast Cyprus, but escaped with burns, says Reuters.