St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver had a medical milestone last weekend: 13-year-old Sikander Sakota surviving a potentially fatal heart disease, when he became the youngest patient in the world to receive the world's smallest heart pump. Sahota started feeling ill last Saturday and was diagnosed with viral myocarditis, an infection that destroys heart muscle. A heart pump was inserted into his groin and threaded into his heart. From there, the pump began helping his heart push blood.

A man from Georgetown, Delaware has sued the Beebe Medical Center (BMC) in Lewes and its staff for allegedly wrongly declaring his wife dead in May last year. In the suit, Louis Johnson also charged that the hospital failed to provide adequate medical care and was negligent in treating her 61-year-old wife, Judith, from her heart attack on May 6, 2007. He sought an unspecified amount of damages and penalty.

A 33-year-old aspiring chef from Edlington, England died after eating super-hot chili sauce as part of an endurance challenge with a friend. Fork-lift driver Andrew Lee, who dreamed of becoming a chef, was challenged by his girlfriend's brother to see who could eat the spiciest sauce that he could prepared.

Jordan's Queen Rania has urged her country's people to stick to a healthy eating regime during Ramadan, an Islamic holy month where eating between dawn and sunset is forbidden. The queen is concerned that people are tending to overeat after sunset because they have deprived themselves of food during the day, and is backing the government media campaign to encourage people to steer clear of heavy, rich meals in the evening.

To bring life back to the historic part of Sicily, Salemi Mayor Vittorio Sgarbi offered old properties for only one euro. Sgarbi explained to Corriere della Sera, "In exchange for the token payment of one euro ($1. 44) we will offer them one of these houses and ask that they undertake to restore them within two years while respecting their original characteristics. "