A Thai chef in London triggered fears of a chemical attack among local restaurant patrons when smoke from his eye-watering hot chilli sauce led to the emergency services being called out Wednesday, reports said. The Thai chef Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon, who works at the Thai Cottage restaurant in the entertainment district of Soho, was cooking up bird's eye chillies as he prepared a huge batch of nam prik pao, a Thai's cuisine exotic food, an extra-hot dip served with prawn crackers.

Yorkshire folk are disturbed and baffled by a phantom sculptor who is leaving mysterious stone heads outside their homes. So far, The Sun has reported that at least nineteen heads have appeared across Yorkshire, each different but bearing the same carved symbol that appears to spell the word "paradox. "

In Japan, the Internet café has become a substitute for home. A survey of Japan's ministry of health indicated that the number of people who sleeps over at 24-hour Internet cafes for having no home or job total 5,400 nationwide, the Kyodo News reported. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's findings disclosed on Tuesday reveals what could be a widening of the rich-poor gap in Asia's richest country.

A heroic cat helped its owner escape a fire that erupted in his Clearwater Fla. mobile home, but could not make itself out of the flames. According to investigators, the cat woke its owner at the Capri Mobile Home Park, and alerted him to the flames engulfing the home around 3 a. m. Monday.

People in Gloucestershire, England are being warned not to fight over water supplies in a county where about 130,000 homes are still without water after severe flooding. Authorities there warned that anyone caught fighting over emergency supplies or damaging water equipment would be put in jail.