A female security guard found herself in the emergency room of the hospital she was guarding, this time as a patient, after she was punched in the face by a woman in Pasay City, south of the capital Manila on Saturday. Fortunately, for the guard, her alert colleagues immediately collared her attacker and 22-year-old Cheryl Languing was turned over to the police who filed appropriate charges against the suspect.

A Malaysian mother is ready to face new challenges following her graduation on Saturday. Cecilia Ong See Kiaw, a 56-year-old retiree is the oldest student who graduated among the 1,562 graduates at the University Malaysia Sarawak, in Malaysia According to Ong, there is no age limit if a person wants to attain and pursue higher education as long as one is persistent.

When Michael Moylan of St. Lucie County, Florida, awoke Monday night with a severe headache, he thought perhaps his wife had elbowed him in his sleep. Worse, he thought, he could be suffering from an aneurysm. He asked his wife to drive him to the emergency room, where the nurse informed him that, in fact, there was a bullet lodged in his head.

A farm dog in eastern China has been nursing three newborn tiger triplets along with her own pups after the tigers' mother rejected them shortly after they were born. The dog, a mixed breed named Huani, has nursed other tigers in the past. Officials at Jinan Paomaling Wild Animal World in Shandong province said it is not uncommon for zoos to use dogs to nurse tigers who are rejected by their mothers.

An effort by a substitute teacher to quiet her chatty students has cost her her job. The officials at Amanda-Clearcreek school district in Fairfield County permanently suspended Ruth Ann Stoneburner after she admitted to using clothespins on the mouths of four students to silence them. In a letter sent to parents this week, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School principal Mike Johnsen said that each of the four boys had confirmed having a spring-type clothespin placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class.