An English toy company has manufactured dolls that resemble teddy bears and other plush toys, as road kill. The dolls feature the complete gory image, including eyes popped out, and guts spilled.

American novelist Norman Mailer, who at 84 died due to renal failure just last month, became the recipient of the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which identifies authors responsible for tasteless depictions of sexual acts in novels. The late author was given the award for his work on his literary description of the incestuous physical encounter between Adolf Hitler's parents.

Head Honchos at Google Inc. thought it would be funny to pull an elaborate prank on their customers for April Fools Day telling them they could get free Internet access through their toilet. Google's "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) came complete with a mock press release, FAQs, and a step-by-step online installation manual. The release said access is "free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system. "

An Italian woman got the shock of her life when the doctor she visited for her check-up declined to treat her saying, "But you are dead!" Italian pension agency INPS mistakenly reported Maria Giuliani as dead in January 2006 when another woman by the same name died. However, Giuliani did not lose hope and sued her pension agency for removing her from the databanks of municipal and health computers. She has reportedly won a year-long battle on Thursday to get her name back in the government database.

A researcher using an unusual "pooper scooper" sampling method has discovered that there are at least two distinctive breeding groups of bison at Yellowstone National Park. The scientist's findings are important because many bison that wander from Yellowstone onto private land are culled or destroyed. Scientists say that could impact the balance of the herd if bison from one breeding group are being culled out more than members of another breeding group are. Graduate student Flo Gardipee, who studies fish and wildlife biology at The University of Montana - describes herself as "a professional pooper scooper. "