British daily The Guardian has reported the end of the longest speech in British legal history ended Wednesday. Nicholas Stadlen, a top British lawyer for the Bank of England, finally sat down after making the final statements of his 119 day long opening argument in a London courtroom.

A Berlin man who killed a music teacher and stored his victim's body parts to satisfy cannibalistic fantasies was convicted of murder Tuesday and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Ralf M. , 41, confessed to stabbing Joe R. , 33, with a screwdriver during a sexual encounter at his apartment in Neukoelln in southern Berlin.

An Ontario man decides to file a class-action lawsuit against two drug manufacturers, claiming medication he took to control Parkinson's disease turned him into a compulsive gambler. Gerry Schick is asking for millions of dollars in compensation from Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim accusing the companies of "aggressively" marketing the drug Mirapex "by understating risks associated with the use of the product. "

Brandon Fizer, 23, accidentally stuck his hand in a mixing machine and lopped off his right index finger at the knuckle. The fingertip ended up in a frozen pint of custard purchased by Clarence Stowers at Kohl's Frozen Custard in Wilmington. Stowers returned to the store to complain half an hour later and refused to return the digit, destroying all hopes for reattachment.

A Norwegian woman is sentenced to nine months in jail for rape - this is the first conviction of its kind for the Scandinavian court system. Back in January of 2004, a 31-year-old man reported to authorities that he had fallen asleep on the couch at a party and woke-up to find the woman performing oral sex on him. Norwegian law states that all sexual acts with someone who is "unconscious or for other reasons unable to oppose the act" are considered rape.