A former high school student has dropped his lawsuit after he was suspended for wearing a "redneck" T-shirt. Thomas Sypniewski Jr. , 23, now five years after the incident, says it's time to move on.

Vicars in northern England are offering a service to people moving into new homes in an attempt to attract more people to the church - free home blessing. Rev. Chris Painter, a vicar in the diocese of Manchester, says, "For a large part of the church's history, people have come into the church building. Nowadays people tend not to come into church so we need to find new ways to meet people. "

Roughly 3,738 mothers on Thursday claimed to make history in the Guinness Book of World Records for simultaneous mass breastfeeding in at least one minute, breaking the previous world record of 1,135 set by the City of Berkeley Women Infants Children Program in California on August 3, 2002, reports AFP. Manila's local authority organized the event with the help of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), aiming to create awareness among public about the benefits of breastfeeding.

Cheered by thousands, a four-year-old boy dubbed "India's Forrest Gump" who was nearly sold by his impoverished mother ran 65km (40. 365 miles) to enter the country's foremost record book. Budhia Singh, a slum resident from the eastern state of Orissa whose talent was discovered by a local sports coach, was escorted by doctors and 300 cadets of the Central Reserve Police Force, which plans to sponsor his upbringing.

The world's oldest soccer ball is being sent to Germany for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The ball is 450 years old, and will sit in the center of a German exhibition on the history of the popular sport.