Graduate student Wei-Ming Kao approaches a heavily guarded truck in a secluded parking lot in an industrial area of New York to pick up his orders -- to "stalk" and "kill" his target. But things are not as ominous as they seem.

A German film-maker notoriously criticized for putting out bad films has chosen to hit back at his detractors in a most unexpected venue - the boxing ring. Film director Uwe Boll took on four of his biggest critics in a boxing match in Vancouver, emerging victorious from the contest in front of a crowd of 600 people.

The mayor of Gallatin, Tennessee was duped by filmmakers who said they wanted to use his office to shoot a scene for a "family friendly" movie. Mayor Don Wright was surprised to learn from the front page of the Nashville Tennessean that the movie's title is "Thong Girl 3. " He tells Reuters, "I had no idea what the movie was about. . . They told me it was about a superhero woman and there was no nudity or offensive stuff in it. Other than that, I really didn't have a clue. "

Spanish police officers congregated to watch a video presentation on promotion methods, were instead shown a clipping from hard-core pornographic film, authorities said Tuesday. Computer technicians blamed the glitch on a virus that got activated as the video was turned on. The incident happened Monday when nearly 120 Madrid city police officers gathered at an auditorium to see the video on operations at an academy where they are to study, the Madrid regional justice and interior ministry said.

Russia's parliament on Wednesday rejected a proposal to send the celebrated U. S. singer and actress Madonna to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008. The motion had been introduced by Alexei Mitrofanov, a member of the Duma for the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, saying the trip would be "a serious event" to organize in the same year as presidential elections in the United States and Russia. Madonna had expressed her desire to go into space and board the ISS, during her first ever Russian concert.