One grandmother decided to celebrate her birthday with a flare and fulfill a dream. On her 90th birthday, widower, Mary Armstrong, from East Moseley, Surrey jumped out of the plane at 12,000 ft and plummeted back to earth at 120 miles per hour. Due to her advancing age, she was strapped to an instructor. The Daily Mirror said the grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of nine more, was in a freefall for more than 30 seconds before her parachute finally opened at around 6,000 feet over Ashford, Kent in England.

Mary Armstrong celebrated her 90th birthday by skydiving 12,000 feet to the earth. It is her third charity jump, raising $1,900 for an animal charity. The proceeds of the jump will go to a horse, donkey and mule veterinary charity called The Brooke.

British jump jockey apparently imitated Zinedine Zidane by head-butting his horse, City Affair. Paul O'Neill apologized for the vicious attack on the horse. The incident occurred prior to a race in Stratford, England.

A severed horse's head is left in the swimming pool of a councilwoman in Wawayanda, New York. Lt. Pierce Gallagher says the horse had apparently been dead for "three to four days, probably no more than a week. " Councilwoman Gail Soro and her husband last used the pool Monday night.

Boo has returned. The runaway 4-year-old grizzly bear returned to his enclosure at the Kicking Horse Mountain Resort outside of the Canadian Rockies Saturday. His keepers say more than likely, Boo came back because it's easier to get food at his 22-acre enclosure, and mating season has ended.