In an enactment of what may sound as a scene from an action film, a man wrestled a wild leopard that entered his house and pinned it for 20 minutes until the park rangers arrived and took the cat away. The incident happened last week as Arthur Du Mosch, 49, was asleep with his family and a leopard entered through his bedroom window and hopped into his family bed.

According to certain reports, some of Japan's residents who wanted a poodle have been walking around with a sheep on the end of their leash. According to early reports, the scam was discovered when a Japanese film star appeared on a talk show talking about her gorgeous little puppy.

Thailand's government on Wednesday blocked the popular Web site YouTube because of a short film mocking the country's king. The 44-second clip shows pictures of feet over a picture of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Feet are considered dirty and offensive in Thailand. The Thai national anthem is played as the film's soundtrack.

In an attempt to prove his love for his wife, a British man from Isle of Wright turned his Land Rover to "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", an all time favorite car model from the 1960's film that goes by the same name. Retail store manager Nick Pointing spent thousands of dollars and four years to make his car into the same model as shown in the movie. Now the couple plan to take a 12-month career break and tour the world with the car raising money for charity.

Malaysian authorities have boosted security for its two special "four-legged" investigators for they are feared to be potential targets of the country's piracy syndicates. The floppy eared investigators are actually a pair of sniffer dogs that the country has recently loaned from Ireland for a month trial in order to break down the DVD piracy racket. Lucky and Flo, the pair of black Labrador Retrievers, are notably the first animals trained to detect optical discs by their scent.