Last week's freak snowstorm in western New York knocked down several trees and stranded thousands in dark. But Georgianna Verrastro believes that her home was spared by the storm because a higher power was watching over her family that day. As proof she mentioned what happened to a statue of Jesus near her home.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is planning on cutting down costs at Buckingham Palace. The monarch is said to be firing the Palace's night phone operator and diverting calls to Windsor Castle's fire surveillance room instead. The queen employs an operator to work between 10 pm and 8 am to take important phone calls regarding urgent matters of state business with a salary of $25,000 a year.

A stray cat has set up a home in a pigeon's nest up a tree in Norfolk, East England the Daily Mail newspaper reported. Wendy Hobbs, from Reepham, Norfolk said she spotted the cat up a cherry tree some three weeks ago. She told the newspaper that she was about to call the fire brigade to rescue the cat when she noticed that it had set up home in the nest.

There's a Koala baby boom on one Australian island and scientists are hoping to slow that down. Scientists are hoping a new contraceptive dart will slow down the population explosion of koalas on Kangaroo Island. The island's eucalyptus trees are dwindling and the island's 28,000 koalas are eating themselves out of a habitat. The animals eat nearly a pound of leaves every day. So far, the contraceptive darts have proved 100 percent successful.

It is common for words and meanings to be lost in a translation, but a whole city? "Jerusalem. There is no such city!" That is what the municipality of Jerusalem wrote in a sightseeing catalog that comes in an English version, originally published in Hebrew.