Author J. K. Rowling's outing of Harry Potter's mentor Albus Dumbledore has caused reactions of different kinds around the world. And a more amusing consequence of the announcement is being experienced by 36-year old Paul Croft, who brandishes a 2-foot tattoo of the newly-exposed wizard on his back.

About one hundred Chinese volunteers posed naked along a rushing river for a photo-shoot to promote environmental issues. A beaming He Yuanbo said his Love Life, Protect Water project only shows how much China had changed throughout the years.

Frustrated that they hadn't shot any deer during the archery deer hunt, two teenagers in Orem, Utah, have admitted to hunting nine cows last month. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officer Paul Davis said in a statement the boys, whose names have not been released, confessed to shooting the cows repeatedly with arrows over a two-week period.

Mumbai's top civic agency is going to post and fine all employees and officials spitting in the halls and stairways. All violators will be reprimanded and their photographs, names and titles posted on bulletin boards and headquarters of the Birhanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which is responsible for the cleanliness and orderliness and upkeep of roads and buildings.

In an attempt to give their baby boy a unique name, an unidentified Chinese couple is planning to name him "@", the symbol used in email addresses. The couple insists that when translated in Manadarin the commonly used Internet 'at' symbol sounds like 'love him. '