Putting grocery items in a bag is surely an art, now Las Vegas is holding the National Grocers Association's Best Bagger Contest to separate the stars from the fans. One of the potential participants of the contest, Lori Engel, an assistant manager at the Waterford Pick 'n' Save store in Wisconsin, has been bagging items for years and is ready to compete.

A 48-year-old coach for a German football club who is afflicted with color blindness, was embarrassed when he mistook the referee for one of his players and urge him to score during a game. Ralf Rangnick, who once coached the Bundesliga sides Stuttgart and Schalke before taking over regional team TSG Hoffenheim, confronted one of his players and yelled at him to "move yourself. "

Two men claim they set a record by traversing the entire New York subway system in just over 24 hours. Matt Green and Don Badaczewski's time is just over an hour faster than the previous record. They did not sleep and Green, 26, did not eat during their trip.

Phonetics experts at the University of London say they can prove that cows moos have regional accents, backing early claims by dairy farmers. John Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London, said, "This phenomena is well attested in birds. You find distinct chirping accents in the same species around the country.

Peter Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," says Al Gore is simply not living the same lifestyle he asks others to live in his latest movie, "An Inconvenient Truth. " In an article for USA Today, Schweizer writes, "if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed. For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. "