In an attempt to help overweight officers get back in shape, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has hired a full-time diet coach to chalk out special diet plans for them. Rana Parker, who joined the force in July, was working as a diet coach at Head Start, the federal aid program for children. Now she will target recruits and help instill in them good eating habits and finding time for balanced meals.

The 1998 movie, "Fight Club', based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, may have seemed far fetched, but it struck a chord with men who say they feel emasculated by the mundaneness of the corporate, high-tech world. ESPN reported that since 1998, a fight club has been meeting once a month in Cornell educated software engineer, Gints Klimani's, garage. Fifteen men, mostly white, middle-aged technology workers meet to beat each other using fists, toilet seats, and cookie sheets. The group improvises weapons, even stabbing each other with dulled knives.

Armed men in masks stole an estimated $6. 3 million USD (30 million DKK) in what authorities say is the second largest bank heist in Danish history. Police say six robbers forcibly entered a cash depot in Glostrup, a suburban area in Copenhagen, using a forklift to smash through the building's wall. According to the International Herald Tribune, the robbers were armed with assault rifles and submachine guns. A number of the depot's employees were in the building when the incident took place, but no one was injured.

Authorities reported that an intoxicated man exploded in an angry rage at a local gas station. The man, 20-year old Tyler Kraft from Timber Lake, South Dakota, allegedly came up to the Conoco gas station carrying a yellow shovel, approached two men and threatened them with his weapon.

Heavily-armed robbers posing as policemen stole cash and a service vehicle from a mobile phone distribution company in Quezon City, east of the Philippine capital of Manila on Monday morning during a "raid" against violators of intellectual property rights. Reports say the eight "policemen," wearing bull caps with "Pulis" (police) and "PNP" (Philippine National Police) markings, introduced themselves to the store owner and said they were conducting a "raid" against sellers of fake mobile phones from China.