Three men prevented their father from committing bigamy by kidnapping him from his own wedding, the state-owned Sunday Mail reported. The three men, who accuse their father of neglecting their mother, brandished axes and knives at wedding guests before bundling their father into a car and whisking him away, says Reuters.

Satnam Singh is an illegal immigrant who is currently serving time in an Ohio federal prison on a passport crime, but he is about to be sent to Florida to serve additional charges where he will receive a haircut against his religious beliefs. The Florida state penal code requires any incoming male prisoners to receive short haircuts and a close shave.

Former Microsoft software developer Charles Simonyi is set to become a space tourist for a visit to the International Space Station (ISS), the orbital tourism firm Space Adventures reported. Simonyi, 58, will ride a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS where he will stay in fairly low star accommodation for a week.

A prominent rabbi says the outbreak of deadly bird flu in Israel is God's punishment for efforts to legalize gay marriages. Rabbi David Basri, according to Reuters, is a well-known teacher of Kabbalah or Jewish mysticism.