More than lifting and support, a woman was saved by her bra from a falling bullet during New Year's celebrations. The bra strap on her left shoulder had slowed down the bullet and prevented serious injury. In town to visit family, Debbie Bingham, 46, had gone outside with her daughter and son to celebrate New Year and watch the local fireworks display. At 11:40 p. m. she reported feeling a sharp pain in her left shoulder.

Good news for people who have noisy neighbors. A Japanese court has sentenced a woman to a 20-month prison term after her neighbor accused her of inflicting injury by blasting rock music at her house for 2 1/2 years. Court spokesman Takanao Kawasaki said the woman Miyoko Kawahara, was sentenced Tuesday by the Osaka High Court, thus annulling an initial ruling by a lower court that had given her a one-year prison term.

A British noise pollution group has urged for legal action against some stores that are forcing everyone to listen to the same Christmas music over and over. The UK Noise Association and labor unions called the repeated carols as "torture" to the ears and asked for a change. According to Paul Clarke, spokesman for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, Usdaw, "It's an issue that has been brought to our attention. "

A man who was about to leave an Arkansas music shop was stopped by the its owner after he spotted a guitar-shaped bulge in his clothing. According to AP, Clifton Lovell, the owner of Guitars and Cadillacs, said he confronted Morgan Conaster, who at first denied doing anything wrong. But Conatser then confessed to stuffing an electric guitar down his pants.

Australian scientists have developed a unique musical T-shirt that has the capacity to turn the movement's of the wearer's arms into the music of a guitar. Developed by Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up the wearer's arm motions. It then wirelessly relays them to a computer, which further interprets them as guitar notes.