Six friends broke a record after catching a 844-pound shark during a fishing tournament off the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Adlee Bruner, 47, and his five other friends took more than an hour to pull the 11-foot mako shark onto the boat from the Gulf of Mexico.

n a country where most people live on just a dollar or less a day, an 11-year-old boy who gathers discarded plastic bottles for money returned the equivalent of over $400 USD that he found on the road. Gicoven Abarquez is penniless, malnourished and has never owned a pair of shoes. He works the streets of Dagupan City in northern Philippines to help his parents make ends meet. He is one of the thousands of Filipino boys, some barely in their teens, who go to school and also work collecting discarded plastic containers to sell back to recycling centers.

A man who smuggled iguanas into the country in a prosthetic leg has been indicted. Police say Jereme James, 33, stole the iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji. James is facing a single count of smuggling. It comes with a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He had constructed a special compartment in his artificial leg to hold the iguanas.

Christmas won't be the same for one Concord, New Hampshire family that has been ordered to bury the mummified baby the family has passed down to relatives for 90 years. Relatives have kept the dead baby on top of a bureau and honored Baby John at holidays with cards and gifts. One year the stillborn infant was given, appropriately enough, a dried pet fish, relatives say.

Atlanta airport security officers were shocked when they found strange critters while screening luggage. When they opened the luggage, they found venomous creatures inside. Jon Allen, Transportation Security Administration spokesman said, a man flying from South Korea to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport had 30 dead snakes in jars and bottles inside boxes when they checked his luggage.