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.