A New York animal shelter is asking veterinarians to open their hearts and their pocketbooks to help two deformed puppies. The two-week-old puppies, named Magic and Merlin, were born with cleft palates, which prevent them from sucking and feeding themselves.

This burger is not for the weak of hearts. Literally. The Heart Attack Grill located in Tempe, Arizona has introduced an 8,000-calorie burger it named "The Quadruple Bypass Burger. "

Four new saints were added during a ceremony by the Pope. Pope Benedict XVI bestowed the honor in his first canonization ceremony in nearly a year. Mother Theodore Guerin established a Catholic college for women in Indiana. The first student was enrolled in 1841. Guerin was born in France in 1798 and turned a log cabin into a chapel with five other nuns. By the time she died in 1856, her order was in charge of schools and orphanages in Indiana.

An ex-postal worker has been meted a six month jail work-release sentence for pouring urine into his co-workers' coffee. Thomas Shaheen, 50, was also fined $1,200 to compensate for the cost of a videotape catching him spoiling the office coffee.

According to the Palm Beach Post, doctors are amazed that Tony Huesman from Ohio is still alive 28 years after his heart transplant. His heart had been damaged by a pneumonia virus, which had caused his heart to enlarge by four times its normal size and the walls of the heart to stretch and become "paper thin. "When Huesman received the transplanted heart in 1978 at Stanford University, it was one of the only United States' (U. S. ') transplant centers doing this type of surgery. Most other heart surgeons and locations had abandoned the transplantation of hearts, because most patients were not surviving very long after surgery.