The anti-government sit-ins in Beirut by pro-Hezbollah supporters have resulted in a marketing coup for the designer of a new perfume named "Resistance. " Although the perfume is being marketed to protesters - as a way to smell fresh no matter how long they have been camped out without a shower in Lebanon's capital city - it is also selling briskly in Lebanon's stores as well as in other countries. Ali Aaqil Khalil, who invented Resistance perfume, is not a member of Hezbollah and the perfume is neither endorsed or opposed by the militant group.

A group of scientists from Nanning in the southern Chinese province of Guanxi, are claiming they can predict earthquakes just by observing the behavior of snakes. The earthquake bureau in Nannning says they monitor snakes on a snake farm using 24-hour Internet video links. Scientists working for the bureau say the snakes can sense a quake from 75 miles away, up to five days before it occurs.

In a bizarre incident a woman mistakenly put her one-month-old grand son into a plastic bin to be scanned along with her baggage at Los Angeles International airport. The baby was noticed by an airport worker who immediately pulled the bin back from the conveyor belt.

Mayor Jorge Telerman of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has installed two Web cameras and several microphones in his office so that his constituents can monitor everything that is going on inside the local chief executive's office in real time. The Web site dubbed "The Mayor's Reality Show," is reported to be a huge success with the public.

The word-trend group Global Language Monitor named the top television buzzwords of the year on Sunday. The two words - ""Truthiness" and "Wikiality" - both come from Stephen Clobert's political satire show "The Colbert Report. "Every year The Global Language Monitor conducts a survey to uncover the TV words that have impacted language the most. Some other top words include "Katrina," referring to continuing stories about the hurricane's devastation; "Katie," referring to Katie Couric's new position as nightly news anchor role at CBS News; and "Dr. McDreamy," a reference to a character on the hit medical show "Grey's Anatomy. "