The residents of southeast Queensland were anxious when they mistook a bright, green ball of streaking light from a meteor to be a crashing plane. A police spokeswoman said the suspected meteor was seen traveling east to west in the region from Bribie Island, across the Sunshine and Gold Coasts as far inland as Warwick.

An Indian teen has become famous for shooting milk through his nose and eyes. Praveen Kumar Sehrawat has the ability or skill, depending on what you think, to suck milk up his nostrils and then squirt it up to 12ft through his tear ducts.

Each morning, Joe Connor climbs into his Mercedes and goes looking for two things: baseball and vegetable oil. His car is an '84. But this is no ordinary car; it's a "green" vehicle. It has nine sponsors and runs on a two tank system.

The latest dish to tempt consumers is a green and red-striped tomato created in response to increased demand for novelty produce. Creator, Marks & Spencer, says the tiger tomato is a cherry-sized fruit with magenta-colored skin and tastes slightly sweeter than standard varieties.

Residents in rural Malaysia have found a two-tailed lizard and a toad with a 15 inch tail. Farmer Ahmad Mustafa caught the unusual green lizard with a split tail near his house last month in the northern state of Penang, the New Straits Times said in a report accompanied by a photograph of the strange reptile.