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.

In a yet another effort to upgrade the city's image before the 2008 Olympic Games, authorities in Beijing have barred women cabbies to not to dye their hair red and their male counterparts from growing their hair long. The bans on the city's taxi drivers are a part wider effort by the authorities who perceive the Olympic Games as an opportunity to display splendid Chinese culture and its residents' positive attitudes. In the recent effort, authorities have listed out as many as 12 not-to-do's for the city's cabbies. These include: greeting passengers without politeness, avoid smoking, spitting, wearing heavy and jewelry and brushing teeth after eating garlic among others.

Two Sumatran orangutans from Zoo Atlanta are playing video games as researchers plan to study cognitive, memory, reasoning and learning abilities of these intelligent species. Zoo visitors are very curious to see four-year-old Bernas use his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor. However, he is not as computer-friendly as his mom Madu who loves to spend time playing computer games.

Bello Nock, named one of America's most famous clowns by Times magazine and employed by The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Traveling Circus, has got his lost bitty bike back. The skilled gymnast had been "very upset" since Friday night when his foot-high, 6-inch-wide contraption was taken from a Manhattan street while Bello and two fellow circus members clowned around. "I can't tell you how happy I am to have it back," the big-haired Bello told the Associated Press. "I wonder how comfortable it would be as a pillow. I may have to sleep on the thing. "