Nearly a dozen 7-Eleven convenience stores will wear a new face replicating the famed Kwik-E-Marts from "The Simpsons" cartoon. Kwik-E-Mart, which was designed in the show to poke fun at 7-Eleven Inc's more than 6,000 North American stores, features unhealthy snacks like Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees -- a spin off of 7-Eleven's Slurpees.

The North Carolina Department of Correction has recently allowed a British woman and a death row inmate in Central Prison in Raleigh to get married after the two fell in love by exchanging letters and poems. James Lewis Morgan, a death row inmate and Tracy Cope started out as intimate pen pals by exchanging poetry but soon their love blossomed and they continued dating each other for 4 ˝ years.

A 2-pound kitten was finally rescued from a storm drain in West Virginia, with the help of two fire trucks, five firefighters, several animal rescuers and about 250 gallons of water. Firefighters tried coaxing it out with food and encouraging words. They also tried flashing lights and banging tools on the pipe to scare the kitten out, reported CNN.

A teenager, whom school authorities think to be a former student, ran naked through a school and set off a fire extinguisher. The school authorities were saved from any panic as no students were present in the school at that time. According to police reports, the surveillance camera shows footage of the man breaking a window to enter the school. He also tampered with surveillance cameras and left his fingerprints there.

No one wants a bored monkey who won't monkey around. So a German zoo hired a clown to clown around for the monkeys and cheer them up. Zoo bosses hired a local entertainer to fool around in front of the chimps, baboons, gorillas and orangutans in zoo cages because a veterinarian said that bored monkeys were more often sick or aggressive monkeys.