On Wednesday, a without-ticket passenger miraculously boarded an air-borne Mexican Airline plane. The incident happened when a 42-year-old woman went into early labor while on a flight from Guadalajara, Mexico to Chicago's O'Hare Airport. It was just an hour before the Mexicana Airlines plane could do its midnight landing, but this baby didn't seem to wait. Fortunately, one of the woman's co-passengers turned out to be an obstetrician-gynecologist, and helped deliver the baby girl.

What makes a sandwich a sandwich? Could one define the nature of a burrito as simply a Mexican sandwich? A Worchester judge presiding over a legal dispute between Panera Bread Co. and Qdoba Mexican Grill answered these tough culinary questions last week. Panera, a bakery and sandwich making food chain, filed suit against the owners of the White City Shopping Mall for allowing a burrito making business to open shop in the same facility. Panera and the mall had signed a lease agreement in 2001 barring rental space from any other sandwich shop. According to Panera, burritos are sandwiches.

Yu Zhenhuan, an aspiring Chinese rock-star with 96-percent of his body covered in hair, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against Beijing's World Carnival Company for posting his photograph without permission on its website. Yu said the unauthorized posting had caused him to suffer from undue psychological damage.

Four new saints were added during a ceremony by the Pope. Pope Benedict XVI bestowed the honor in his first canonization ceremony in nearly a year. Mother Theodore Guerin established a Catholic college for women in Indiana. The first student was enrolled in 1841. Guerin was born in France in 1798 and turned a log cabin into a chapel with five other nuns. By the time she died in 1856, her order was in charge of schools and orphanages in Indiana.

Pope Benedict XVI will canonize a woman who was a nun in Indiana this Sunday. The Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin, who was once banished from her congregation, will be the first U. S. saint the Roman Catholic Church has canonized in six years. The pope will also be canonizing a Mexican bishop and two Italians who founded religious orders.