In anticipation of the 2008 Summer Olympics, a Chinese groom had a wedding gown specially made for his bride measuring 200. 8 meters (658. 8 feet) long. Ken, who hails from the city Guangzhou, says he originally planned to make the dress 2008 meters long, in tribute to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games but buckled down later saying the additional 8 meters would make the gown more difficult to handle.

A massive $2. 7 billion (20 billion yuan) income is expected to be earned by China's catering industry during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. The huge food bill covers the meals of 280,000 athletes, Olympic officials, media and other workers from 200 nations as well as 5 million overseas and 120 million domestic tourists. It will be an unprecedented opportunity for the nation's catering sector which is used to making just $3. 2 billion (24 billion yuan) a year, said Bian Jiang, spokesman of the China Cuisine Association (CCA).

Baseball is a game of glorious records and streaks, like those by Cal Ripken, Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees. Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard has his own remarkable streak of 121 straight playoff games behind the microphone. Sheppard's streak will unfortunately end when the American League Division Series returns to New York, however, as the 97-year-old is having a bout with bronchial infection.

Police are trying to track down the owner of 65,400 euros sent to a 16-year-old boy who bought a Playstation2 for $200 on eBay. The cash, which is worth roughly $88,000, arrived at the house in Norfolk, with the games console, but without the two games promised in the ad.

No one wants a bored monkey who won't monkey around. So a German zoo hired a clown to clown around for the monkeys and cheer them up. Zoo bosses hired a local entertainer to fool around in front of the chimps, baboons, gorillas and orangutans in zoo cages because a veterinarian said that bored monkeys were more often sick or aggressive monkeys.