Aside from his extraordinary leadership skills which led to his being named "Person of the Year" by Time Magazine, Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon be recognized internationally for his athletic prowess. In particular his judo moves as he and an Olympic Japanese judo medalist will come out with an instructional video soon. Mr. Putin and Yasuhiro Yamashita shot the instructional video disc as a supplement to a judo manual. The disc is slated to be released on January or February, President Putin said Friday at the opening of a Toyota Motor Corporation's assembly plant near St. Petersburg.

A middle school coach was arrested and charged for leading a group of players into manipulating Christmas displays to depict images of a pornographic nature. John Hayes, 46, while driving around in his pickup truck with middle school varsity football team at the back, allegedly placed a homeowner's reindeer displays in sexual positions. The group also destroyed several Christmas decorations they came across.

An employee who fought back against a robber admitted his heroic deed was prompted by his concern of how it would look on YouTube if he did not. Dustin Hoffmann, a Dunkin' Donuts employee, was reported to have whacked a robber on the head with the store's tip cup, after the thief attacked him and started taking cash from the register. "What was going through my mind at that point was that the security tape is either going to show me run away and hide in the office or whack this guy in the head," Hoffmann said. "So I just grabbed the cup and clocked that guy pretty hard. "

Saying she has not found her Mr. Right yet, a Serbian woman has claimed turning down no less than 150 marriage proposals. Milunka Dabovic, from Maskova in central Serbia, says she got her first proposal when she was 14 and they have been coming ever since.

get this: i was running down my street last night coming homeand i see this girl run across the road. then i see something fly across the yard she was in. So i stop dead in my tracks when i probably should have been running. The girl comes up to me and says,"Can you help me find my shoe?" I was laughing so hard i almost pee-d on myself. So i was good person i guess and went and helped her but it was so histerical. We looked like red-necks looking for a shoe in the middle of the night.