Eighties pop star and former topless model Samantha Fox won't be getting the royal treatment in Serbia. The former pin-up blonde was to have a statue put in place in the city of Cacak in Russia in her honor, but the plans have been scrapped after she failed to sell-out a concert in the city, prompting her backers to pull out. Apparently, the half-full crowd was more eager in Fox exposing her breasts than actually hearing her sing. What's more, the British singer snubbed fans and then failed to turn up for a ministerial dinner staged in her honor after a concert.

An undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been attracting a buzz with the piece he made for his senior show. The piece, titled "Blessing," is a paper mache sculpture of presidential hopeful Barack Obama as Jesus, complete with robes and a neon blue halo. The student, 24-year-old David Cordero, said he decided to create the sculpture because Obama's been getting an enormous amount of attention since it was rumored he might run for president.

In an attempt to improve the hand-eye coordination of kids, about 42 elementary schools from Sacramento, California participated in a unique two-day sport stacking competition. Attended by over 300 students, the competition is a game in which participants must stack and unstack 12 specially designed plastic cups in the lowest possible time.

A Maine farmer has almost given up his efforts to corral a donkey he bought two months ago at an auction. Tranquilizers, a luring date and even a horse whisperer have so far failed to persuade Jenny the donkey to make a comeback since she fled the corral, presumably in search for her lost love. Joe Varricchio, the co-owner of the farm called "Mary Gardens," bought Jenny from an auction thinking its presence in the farm would ward off predators like fox, coyotes and raccoons that have been snatching 50 to 60 hens a year. But his hopes were diluted when the freedom-minded equine eluded the farm just two weeks after and since then Varricchio's every effort to corral her have failed.

In the first incident of its kind, a doctor skiing down the Haulback Trail at Sugarloaf, was hit by something very unusual - a deer. A whitetail deer attempting to cross the trail crossed paths with Dr. Ray Stone, while making a turn, resulting with both of them falling to the ground. Stone, a family practice doctor who lives in New Gloucester and works at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston said he was utterly confused last month after being knocked-off completely while skiing.