We all know that dogs wag their tails to express happiness, but a new Italian study now suggests that dogs show pleasure by wagging their tails more towards the right, while negative feelings get a left-swaying wag. An Italian neuroscientist at the University of Trieste, Dr. Giorgio Vallortigara, and two veterinarians from the University of Bari, Marcello Siniscalchi and Angelo Quaranta, closely watched 30 caged family pets of mixed breeds over 25 days, performing 10 tests per day.

A careless error of a computer technician reformatting a disc drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue wiped out data containing $38 billion of state funds. With just one stroke on the computer keyboard, the computer technician, doing routine maintenance work, deleted information for applicants on the oil-funded account, one of Alaska residents biggest perks. Worst, the technician also mistakenly reformatted the back-up drive.

A 25-year-old man from Connecticut landed into trouble when a roommate found he hid a small camera in a bottle of shampoo to watch two of his female roommates in the shower. A court charged Steven Thibodeau on Wednesday with over 15 counts of voyeurism and one count of evidence tampering, which alleges he tried to delete some images. The matter came into picture when one of his male roommates got suspicious over an unused shampoo bottle and decided to check it. He later called police after he found small wires coming out of the shampoo.

In an incident of what can be yet another U. S. Mint goof, a Colorado couple has found a dollar coin without the face of George Washington on it. Although, the coin does have "In God We Trust" inscribed on its edge, it is missing out on the images both on its front and backside. "We're just so excited," Mary Smith told The Associated Press. "I'm just dumbfounded that we actually found something significant. "

A critic of the newest Turner Award recipient said the artist's work was drab. Even winner Tomma Abts, the first women to receive the award, said her paintings start unplanned and in the end signify nothing.