A construction worker buried under a wall of mud managed to survive the ordeal, allegedly through the act of meditation and positive thinking. The worker, 52-year old Wang Jianxin, was reportedly digging a ditch in eastern China when the wall came down on him, with him being buried with nothing other than his safety helmet for protection.

They say people become a bit eccentric on leap days, but this one definitely takes the cake. A CashTomato Leap Day promotion scheduled outside Union Square Park turned into "Mayhem in Manhattan" after an impatient audience mobbed tomato mascots to get their $29- giveaways.

A 28-year-old mechanic was apprehended at gunpoint by British police after an anonymous tipster mistook the man's MP3 player for a gun. Darren Nixon said three police cars tailed the bus he was riding in while he was on his way home from work.

Authorities said Monday that a 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed because he was still not ready to go back to school after the Christmas vacation. "I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school. I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun," the boy Diego told AFP.

A 58-year old martial arts expert has come up with a novel idea of teaching the elderly to defend themselves using their canes. Kevin Garwood, of Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, has put up a special martial arts class for pensioners - apparently - his lessons are paying off.