Low thermostat settings in the office is driving up the sales of space heaters even during summer. According to Tom Flippo, manager at Bering's on Bissonnet, while the bulk of their heaters are sold during winter, an average of 100 space heaters are purchased during the hot months. Most of the buyers are office workers who find the thermostat setting too low for comfort. According to Don Young, vice president of the International Facility Management Association, the top two complaints of office workers in various countries were the office was too cold or too hot.

At least eight people were killed, including five children when a lone man, reportedly drunk, opened fire in the Laguna neighborhood of Manila. According to local officials, the suspect opened fire with an M-16 rifle shortly after midnight. Six others, living next door, were injured. The drunken man immediately escaped from the crime scene after the incident.

The FBI arrested charged a teenager flight attendant on Thursday for setting fire in the bathroom of a Northwest/Compass flight, leading to an emergency landing. Eder H. Rojas, 19 was angry at having work at a particular route. He set fire inside a paper towel compartment in the rear bathroom of the plane. He was carrying a lighter with him which he managed to smuggle past security. It is this same lighter that he used to set fire to the extra paper tissues he had secured before boarding.

A Philippine lawyer filed a complaint before the Manila prosecutor's office on Tuesday accusing Pope Benedict XVI and an archbishop of swindling, teaching immoral doctrines and public disorder. According to lawyer Elly Lao Pamatong, as quoted on GMANews. tv, the Pope "has been defrauding billions of innocent members of the human race by telling mythical and deceitful stories" that "have proximately caused the herein complainant and billions of other victims to turn over one-tenth of their incomes" to the Pope, Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales "and their accomplices. "

Authorities arrested a man who attempted to rob a local muffler store, and left his contact number with the employees. At about 9 a. m. Monday, Ruben Zarate, 18 years old, allegedly went to a Mufflers for Less, and held up the place at gunpoint, insisting that the employees hand over the money. He was told, however, that there was no money in the store at the moment, as the manager was the only one with access to the safe, and he was not present.