An American Airlines flight was grounded Monday after the passengers smelled sulfur burning. Investigators found that a woman lit the matches to mask bodily gas. Airport spokeswoman Lynne Lowrance said, "About 6:30 this morning, an American Airlines pilot called the FAA tower reporting that passengers were smelling fumes like matches being struck within the cabin. "

A New York-based beauty company has introduced a new range of dyes for pubic hair. And Betty Beauty says sales have been brisk since the product line was introduced. The company, which markets the products as "color for the hair down there," has appeared on television and in magazines such as Vogue to promote the hair dyes.

A cruise packed with attractive women is being offered to eligible bachelors this month in Shanghai -- but only if their bank accounts are big enough. The cruise is being offered to match men making $250,000 or more with women who must be "attractive in every category," said cruise organizer Xu Tianli.

During the 1970s, when South Korea was governed by hardline authoritarian decree, government agents armed with rulers prowled the streets measuring skirt lengths in search of violators of the country's indecency laws. Police could even arrest women for their choice of fashion if it were deemed to risqué. That same indecency law exists today, if only on the books, as police have long surrendered their pursuits of arresting women in miniskirts and daisy-dukes short-shorts. Nevertheless, the South Korean government is in the process of revising the law to match the fashion motifs of the day.

A 26-year-old man who lives in Oregon has created what he believes to be the heaviest rubber-band ball ever. Steve Milton's ball weighs 3,300 pounds and stands nearly five feet tall. It currently takes up half his garage, and Milton says he wants to put at least 1,000 more pounds on it. Milton is keeping the public posted on the ball's ever-growing size on his MySpace page. He's also uploaded videos of the ball crushing stuff. One video shows a forklift dropping it on an old van.