In rural Cambodia where doctors and hospitals are scarce, poor villagers are turning to a magic elephant which is believed to cure illnesses ranging from typhoid to high blood pressure. A few times a month, Yey Proheu, a 70-year-old female elephant goes around to villages to offer relief to the sick with mahout, Pang Hy, and his assistants.

Chilean authorities are asking French police for help in apprehending con artists who costs thousands of people their money in a cheese selling scam. People were persuaded to buy a powder which they were told would turn into a cheese once it was mixed with milk. It was said to make skin look younger and be very valuable, costing about $500, and was all the craze in France. It turned out to be a food supplement that sold for about $4.

In what started as a way to keep late night revelers away from a suburban Sydney Park, is now getting on the nerves of nearby residents. The local council in Rockdale, a southern suburb in Sydney, started a six-month trial of high-volume hits by Manilow and Doris Day to chase away car enthusiasts who were gathering on weekend nights at Cook Park Reserve.

An American minister named Darryl R. Peebles found anoter man named Darryl Peebles after doing an Internet search on his name. The other Darryl Peebles lived in the Australian island state of Tasmania. After the American Peebles contacted the Australian Peebles, the two men discovered they had some uncanny similarities. Through e-mails, the men found they had much more than their names in common: both were born in 1979, both have three children with a child born in 1975 and another in 1977, and both had fathers who came from small towns and worked on lathes of some kind.

Ecuador is pulling out all the strings ahead of their World Cup clash against England - this time by reportedly having a witch doctor cast a spell on the team. According to Ananova. com, the South Americans have hired Tzamarenda Naychapi, an Ecuadorian Indian who is known for using magic to control events.