Health officials in Hong Kong have come up with a plan to help the environment and cut crematorium congestion at the public mortuary. The plan is the introduction of eco-friendly coffins, which they say burn faster than regular coffins and produce less toxic gases. Cremating the dead is more common and affordable practice than burials in land-scarce Hong Kong.

The sighting of the endangered long-billed murrelet has attracted some 2,000 birdwatchers in Dawlish, Devon in England. The once sleepy seaside town is now a temporary home to avid birdwatchers after the rare bird was reportedly spotted, said the Daily Mail newspaper.

A 24-year-old Polish man say its perfectly acceptable for women to be groped and grunted at. He attributes the "cultural naughtiness" as normal in Eastern Europe. A factory worker, Thomasz Stepniowski, was dubbed the Polish Borat by his neighbors.

A study by a British think tank has given UK youth the dubious distinction of being the most badly behaved teenagers in all of Europe. The institute looked at the results of a number of studies of adolescents conducted in recent years.

U. S. President George Bush will observe the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, and will mark the day with an official proclamation. According to the White House the President says, "we celebrate the Hungarians who defied an empire to demand their liberty; we recognize the friendship between the United States and Hungary; and we reaffirm our shared desire to spread freedom to people around the world. "