City officials recently decided that the decorated tree in the Capital Rotunda will be known as the Wisconsin State Christmas Tree, and not a holiday tree. The 8-1 ruling by the Assembly State Affairs Committee was made in response to a proposal by a state lawmaker, calling for the tree to be known as a Christmas tree, and not a "holiday tree", for which it has been known since 1985.

An Indian businessman kidnapped on Monday in the Philippines escaped from his abductors on Wednesday and went to the police, who arrested three of his kidnappers, fellow Indians themselves. Police from Bataan province in the central island of Luzon learned they busted an Indian syndicate that abducts fellow Indians in exchange for ransom when other Indian victims emerged after the arrest of the three Indians in separate locations in the Philippines.

It was in invitation no thief could ever refuse. The organizers of the Basel Shift Festival found this out when a thief ran off with the book titled "Steal this Book. "

Self-proclaimed "escape king" Nordin Ben Allal has once again escaped from the Ittre jail. His fifth jailbreak attempt, it was described as the most daring of all the prisoner's stunts. Witnesses described that during the prisoners' exercise time, a helicopter landed in the grounds of the high-security prison, with the pilot being held at gunpoint by Ben Allal's accomplices. Ben Allal jumped into the cockpit, eager to take off.

Canadian court ended hearings this Wednesday of what observers see as a case that pits freedom of expression with safeguarding children. For refusing to carry what it deems to be sexually explicit pamphlets, Canada Post was sued by the Sex Party, the country's only accredited sex-related political party.