Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been voted number one in the world for her leadership skills. The monarch saw off stiff competition from entrepreneur Donald Trump, U. S. presidential candidate Hilary Clinton and football manager Alex Ferguson, to top the poll conducted by learndirect business.

Students at a high school in Myrtle Beach franatically started calling their parents after they heard a gunshot in the school. The noise came after a senior student named Damien Singleton shot himself in the leg Thursday during a marine science class. The 18-year-old student was taken to a hospital where doctors operated on his leg but there have been questions over how he got the gun inside the school's classroom.

An environmental group in Australia has captured a "monster" toad that weighs 2 pounds, is 8 inches long toad and is among the largest specimens ever captured in the northern city of Darwin, Australia. Graeme Sawyer, the coordinator of the group FrogWatch, said, "It's huge, to put it mildly" adding that the male frog is almost the size of a football. It is twice the weight of an average cane frog and almost one-third longer and heavier than the previous biggest a female captured in the middle of Darwin.

A motorcyclist has filed a lawsuit against the Tacoma School District, claiming that the ball tossed by a group of Wilson High School cheerleaders and football players conducting a car wash caused his Harley Davidson to crash, thereby hurting him. Ronald Adjutant, of University Place, has reportedly sought undisclosed damages for "physical and mental," injuries he suffered in the crash. The incident happened on April 3, 2004, when Adjutant was riding his Harley Davidson and suddenly a ball came out flying, hitting the front of his bike, causing him to crash on the ground.

A Wisconsin man is thankful he survived a 16-story fall, but he's even more thrilled he doesn't remember the how or why of the incident. Joshua Hanson, who is recovering from the life-threatening injuries he suffered due to a fall from a window on the 17th floor of the Hyatt in downtown Minneapolis, says he is thankful to God that he has no memory of the plunge. "I feel really lucky I don't remember it because I probably would have some pretty serious nightmares," AP quotes the 29-year-old bar owner as saying.