New York City Hall will soon release a branded official city condom to encourage its use. Currently, the city distributes 1. 5 million free condoms monthly in ordinary wrappers. Plans are in place to implement a distinctive package design for the city's official condom, be it a subway themed one with the lines shown in different colors.

Women today are taking extreme measures to look young and opting for anti-wrinkle treatments. However, many beauticians take advantage of this fact and use cheap products on their customers to earn profits. A California beautician was sentenced to 15 years in prison following a death of her client after she injected cooking oil into her client instead of "French polymer" agent that promised to reduce wrinkles. Martha Mata Vasquez, 39, injected Mazola corn oil into the buttocks of clients and charged up to $1,400 for each procedure. The 46-year-old victim Maria Olivia Castillo died in November 2005 of multiple organ failure caused by a fat blockage brought about by a cooking oil injection.

For some, an emergency goes beyond the usual call for help. A broken fingernail at a nightclub, a mouse that swallows medicine, and a woman who needs help getting her drunken boyfriend up to bed are all but a few of the thousands of calls made to the 999 emergency hotline in the U. K. A spokesperson for the North East Ambulance Service says demand rose by 15 percent in the past year due to the bizarre calls that are made almost on a daily basis.

Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan won the silver medal at the Asian Games in the women's 800 meters earlier this month. On Monday, according to reports, Soundarajan's medal is in jeopardy of being taken away because she isn't a woman. Soundarajan took and failed a gender test in Doha, Qatar after the victory.

A Minnesotan teen is dead after working on a pedestrian safety video. Nick Johnson, 16, was working on the video with two students from Yellow Medicine East High School when he was accidentally pinned under a car. Johnson died four days later from his wounds.