A 43-year-old North Country man makes the Guinness Book of World Records in a new entry for the longest eyebrow hair. Frank Ames of Saranac in Clinton County measured in at 3. 78 inches, or nearly eight centimeters.

Australia - land of sun, sand and. . . a few surfing mice? Australian surfing enthusiast Shane Willmott is training three mice by the names of Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen, to surf small waves on tiny mouse-size surf boards at beaches on Australia's Gold Coast. The mice are put through some tough training in a bathtub first and then have their fur dyed when it is time to hit the beach.

An increasing number women in Baghdad are opting to wear Western clothing in public over the traditional Islamic dress of the region, causing violent attacks against them. Police report women choosing alternative dress are being attacked with corrosive acid.

An Ohio barber loses his most famous customer after he sold a plastic bag filled with Neil Armstrong's hair for $3,000. "He doesn't come in here anymore," Sizemore told the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Scientists at the National Zoo in Washington wanted to know if a newborn prehensile-tailed porcupine was a boy or a girl, since its sexual organs are internal, it was impossible to tell by looking. Because the sexual organs are internal, it can take up to six weeks before the gender can be determined using a method called anal palpation.