A sudden baby boom among students at Gloucester High School here has taken town officials by surprise. An investigation has revealed that the 17 high school girls expecting babies are part of an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact. "School officials became suspicious in early October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. After questioning, nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.

About one in every four Canadians are comfortable saying they do not believe in a god, according to the latest Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey. Out of 1,000 respondents polled this month, 23 per cent said they didn't believe in God, while six percent declined to give an opinion. In terms of demographics, the Harris-Decima poll revealed that more women than men believe in God; while Canadians aged 50 and above are far more likely to be believers than those under 25.

Godzilla, the overgrown Japanese lizard, wreaked a lot of havoc in those 1950s sci-fi movies. But even he couldn't match the destructive capability of a much smaller cousin in this southern Florida coastal community. Some 20,000 homes lost power midday Thursday when an iguana shorted out high-voltage equipment operated by Florida Power and Light. Electricity was out for about half an hour. The iguana will be out for a much longer time.

The Pakistani government, through a recommendation from the Senate Standing Committee on Sports, Culture & Youth Affairs, is mulling ending a 40-year-old ban on the public screening of Indian-made feature films. "Bollywood" were banned in 1965 during the war between the two rivals. "We have devised a mechanism for allowing the import of Indian films for a period of one year, after which the arrangements can be reviewed," Committee Chair Sen. Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry told the Press Trust of India.

A photographer from Kent has come up with other uses for his groceries other than eating them - use them as art materials. Using vegetables, meat, fish and dairy products, Carl Warner has come up with amazing pieces of artistic photos, which included a Broccoli Forest, Salmon Sea and Mushroom Field among others.