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.

Gillette, WY (AHN) - Hearing that jobs pay better in Wyoming, a Minnesota man traveled 1,500 miles by mule - actually, two of them. After losing his driver's license 10 years ago because of a hit and run, and spending time in jail for nonpayment of child support, Rod Maday had no choice but to ride his mule "into town" to look for work.

The mother of a Cincinnati Ohio teenager, who has been accused of robbing a bank, says that her son needed money for college tuition and other expenses. Nineteen-year-old Andrew Butler and another man were arrested Tuesday about 4. 5 hours after a Valley Central Savings Bank in suburban Reading was robbed. Police recovered an undisclosed amount of cash.

Professor Nilli Lavie of University College London said a test for a person's ability to become distracted can weed out those who are applying for high risk jobs like air traffic controller and bus drivers. Employers are now able to offer tests that are accurate and unable to be doctored. In fact, Lavie said many people think they've done very well on the test when if fact their attention was compromised.

A small Texas town is worried that a cabinet maker who happens to have two wives and two dozen children will soon be their neighbor. Samuel Fischer is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- a denounced offshoot of the Mormon Church. Warren Jeffs, leader of the FCJC, currently awaits trial on charges he married off teenaged brides to older men.