Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier continues to be hot copy. After his diplomatic faux pas in Afghanistan and questions over his former girlfriend's links with biker gang members, there is now a question over his excessive airfare. According to the Toronto Star, Bernier charged to federal funds $22,573 to cover his airfare to Laos, where he attended a two-day conference in November. The trip included a stopover in Paris. Bernier's travel details were in the Foreign Affair Department's website.

Ontario residents are not in favor of scrapping the Lord's Prayer from the daily rites of the province's legislature. The proof was 5,700 submissions to the province's website, which caused the portal to temporarily crash. Residents who could not send their comments electronically jammed the province's phone lines to express their preference that the Our Father remain a part of the opening prayers of the Ontario's legislature.

Hundreds of motorists lined up Friday at a North Carolina gas station that unknowingly sold gasoline for 35 cents a gallon. An attendant of the Kangaroo Express station in Wilmington accidentally set the pump price of premium gasoline to 35 cents instead of $3. 35 a gallon. The mistake was discovered at 6 p. m. , when a long queue of cars caused a traffic jam in the area.

A video ad for the rail line in Washington, D. C. that showed a bobble-head version of Pope Benedict XVI was pulled after religious officials complained that it depicted a "misdressed" pontiff. According to the Archdiocese of Washington, the bobble-headed pope, which was shown riding a Metro train, did not correctly depict the actual appearance of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. "Our concern is that this was a bad bobble-head," said archdiocese spokeswoman Susan Gibbs, according to UPI.

A fishing town in Japan has declared its all-out support for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and for good reason too; the city and the senator share the same name. The Illinois senator took time to send city leaders a letter thanking them for their support, according to Mayor Toshio Murakami. "I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to the city of Obama for your support and encouragement and thank you for your thoughtful gift. We share more than a common name. We share a common planet and common responsibility. I look forward to a future marked by the continued friendship of our two great nations and shared commitment to a better, freer world," Obama wrote in the letter.