A 200-pound potbellied pig named Romeo is living as a major part of the household of a family in St. Albans, Queens. The part-Vietnamese potbellied, who was bought from a farm in Long Island, was described by the Cummings family to be completely housebroken, and has never brought any complaints from the neighbors. He was reported to consume three pounds of pellet food daily, and is taken for a walk four times a day without a leash.

Several members of a choral group singing Christmas carols for shoppers in a mall in Llandudno almost ended up being jailed after mall authorities summoned the help of local police in trying to stop them - from singing. According to reports, the choral group composed of 29 children with ages ranging from six to 11, were at first asked by to stop by a security guard of the shopping center after receiving complaints from shoppers the children were singing a bit loud.

The constant admonition for kids to eat their veggies probably will not be heard often in the Krishna-Avanti school in northwest London. The school requires enrollees to be vegetarians. The school policy is criticized by Hindus who find the strict requirement favoring the Hare Krishna tradition. The school's leaning toward practices of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, more known as Hare Krishna, is not surprising since the movement's vegan followers are behind the school administration.

The children of late humorist Herb Shriner announced their plan to send his old harmonicas to the U. S. troops in Iraq. Wil and Kin, Shriner's 53-year old twin sons, said that they found the harmonicas, all 400 vintage ones, in their father's warehouse located near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Egyptian security forces arrested a man who committed acts of fraud against at least 900 Egyptians and took over 120 million Egyptian pounds ($22 million) from them, after being on the run for weeks. The accused was arrested in a 2 star hotel in downtown Cairo, were had been hiding for two days. Abdullah Kamel Mohamed, 50 years-old, sold the apartments in his residential building in Giza to over 900 people and took the 120 million pounds from them after having given them false and illegal contracts.