A gray seal was spotted Saturday morning, walking along the streets of eastern Maine, passing in front of several houses and a horse pasture, then wondered onto one of the highways. Suspected to have come from Whiting Bay, the seal reportedly got on Route 189 in Washington County. It then ran into trouble upon getting on the highway, with its body shape preventing it from proper mobility on the asphalt. Drivers who spotted the animal stopped.

A 61-year old sailor sent out an SOS from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to the most unusual place, his local pub in West Sussex. Alan Thompson, 61, said he fell to the deck of his boat and broke his hip and unable to move when he sent the distress signal to the Bull's Head some 3,000 miles away.

A 12-year-old boy reeled in a 551-pound bull shark Tuesday, north of the Palm Beach inlet in Florida. The catch managed to break the state record for the heaviest bull shark caught. After spending half a day out in the water, Aidan Murray Medley, a seventh-grader at Eagle Hill School who was vacationing with his family, found himself wrestling with the fish for 20 minutes, reportedly losing feeling from his body.

On its second voyage a virus outbreak struck passengers on the Queen Victoria. Blame it on bad luck, which is exactly what crew members of the $602 million 90,000 ton vessel, the Queen Victoria, are doing after 78 of their 3,000 passengers were infected by a highly contagious stomach known as norovirus. According to the crew members, during its naming ceremony, the champagne bottle swung by the Duchess of Cornwall against the hull of the Queen Victoria failed to break, which is considered a sign of bad luck in the seafaring world.

Frantic calls from New Hampshire to Canada about strange lights in the sky had police scrambling to look for unidentified flying objects only to find out the fireballs coincided with Monday evening's launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A defense agency spokesman described the launch was for a "national security satellite. "