Each time a new Harry Potter book or movie is released, a 78-year-old man from Bradenton, Florida is inundated with interview request calls because he happens to share the same name with J. K. Rowling's fictional character. The retired Defense Department employee from Zaleski, Ohio, doesn't seem to be a fan of the boy wizard, as he hasn't had time to read any of the J. K. Rowling books or see the five hit movies. Potter, who often gets interview requests from the TV networks and autograph requests, says he has not been able to keep his phone off the hook since past few weeks. His wife Jan often jokes with the late night crank callers telling them he (Potter) is "busy, out flying. "

Children in the U. S. could soon be playing with a talking Jesus toy, a bearded Moses, Daniel in the lion's den and other biblical figures, as company One2Believe convinced Wal-Mart to sell Bible-based toys to promote the Christian faith to children. David Socha, founder of One2believe, the company which manufactures the dolls said he is optimistic the demand for "God-honoring" toys will increase as children will be attracted to toys that focuses on Christian teachings and morality.

We arrived in the town of Sta. Ana in Cagayan Valley, the northernmost tip town in the Philippines at 3 a. m. in the morning. The first thing we noticed was the eerie sound of the place, or better yet, the lack of any sound of life. There were no lamp post and all we saw was darkness. The only light available was emanating from the vehicle we were using. We drove for another half an hour and still all we saw was darkness, we didn't see any houses or any other living soul. For someone who has lived in the city all his life, the environment in Sta. Ana was a strange one to me. I came from the capital where the city never sleeps and that has been the case even in some provinces I have visited, this is the only town I have been to where all I heard was the sound of silence even at that hour of the morning.

Nearly a dozen 7-Eleven convenience stores will wear a new face replicating the famed Kwik-E-Marts from "The Simpsons" cartoon. Kwik-E-Mart, which was designed in the show to poke fun at 7-Eleven Inc's more than 6,000 North American stores, features unhealthy snacks like Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees -- a spin off of 7-Eleven's Slurpees.

A life-sized Homer Simpson statue has been recovered and returned to the movie theater from which it was stolen, located in a popular suburban shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. "This case has been solved," Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia's central Petaling Jaya district, told the Associated Press. The culprits, tracked down by local police, were allegedly just overzealous fans of "The Simpsons. "