A housewife was convicted of attempted murder after she tried to kill her husband by mixing antifreeze into their wedding anniversary dinner. The court of Stafford Crown found Kate Knight, 28, guilty of attempted murder after she laced her husband's curry and red wine with antifreeze back in 2005. Lee's ingestion of the tainted food and drink caused him to suffer from brain damage, and irreversible kidney failure.

It's the Chinese Year of the Rat but it is unlikely the animal's status could be elevated above the sewer and loathsome level. Never mind that last year's hit film Ratatouille showed their humorous - and culinary - side and that Mickey Mouse and Tom and Jerry have been a long-time favorites.

A cracked jug started with a bid of $390 at an auction, fetched $430,000, but could eventually command a whopping tag price of $9. 77 million after experts deemed it was part of the rarest treasures of medieval Egypt. . According to staff at the Lawrence's auction house in Crewkerne, Somerset, the enameled jug, decorated with mythological animals and birds, was initially thought to be from 19th century France, hence the low guide price for the bid.

According to a renowned psychologist, today, Monday is the gloomiest day of the year. According to Cliff Arnall, an expert in depression, he used a mathematical formula in determining today as Blue Monday.

The remains of a giant rat, estimated to weigh about a ton, was discovered in Uruguay proving that mammoth rodent once roamed the face of the earth some four million years ago. Archaeologists said they have unearthed the half-meter long skull of the giant prehistoric rat, which by any standard, is bigger than a bull, in a chunk of rock in Rio de La Plata on the coast of Uruguay.