The Hampshire Council has ordered a 47-year old woman to remove a pirate flag from her garden following a crackdown on pirates. Carol Clark, who hails from Whitchurch, said she shocked when told to have her skull and crossbones flag from her garden by local authorities citing breaches on advertising rules.

The state Bridge Task Force released a report on Wednesday asserting that New York's 49 deck trusses are safe for traveling. The report also confirmed that the bridge inspection procedures that are in place at the moment are adequate. The mass inspection was ordered by New York governor Eliot Spitzer following the collapse of a Minneapolis deck truss bridge in August.

Collectors who wants a piece of history will be given an opportunity to own a big piece of Eiffel Towel stairway on November 19 when the Paris' Drouot auction house place the 4. 5 meter-high segment of the stairway under the hammer. In a statement, the auction house expects the 15-foot segment, which weighs at least 1,540 lbs to fetch between $21,000 to $28,000.

A Malaysian college student is facing charges for allegedly violating the country's Sedition Act for displaying the country's flag and rapping the Malaysian national anthem on a YouTube video Wednesday. The six-minute YouTube video was created by Namewee, a 24-year-old Malaysian student at Taiwan's Ming Chuan University. The video is said to have been watched by almost half a million people, not only in Malaysia but all over the world.

Royal courtiers wanted to block the sale of "tasteless" memorabilia when Britain's Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947. Papers released Tuesday by the National Archives at Kew, west London, revealed that members of Britain's Royal Court took their concerns over the wedding souvenirs to the Home Office. The courtiers were particularly annoyed about the "undesirable" handkerchiefs, produced by the Cheadle Fabric Factory.