Australia's Office of Transport Security is installing new generation scanning equipment in airports that could see through the private parts of passengers. The scanners are being pilot tested at the Melbourne Airport. Travelers will pass through scanners for a "virtual strip search" in the next six weeks. Sydney and Adelaide will start their tests next week.

A rampaging donkey was shot and killed by a sheriff's sniper after several tranquilizer darts failed to stop it from running down a highway and acting aggressively to cars. Crockett County Sheriff's Office put in a call for help to the Madison County Sheriff's Office after one of two burros who escaped from a farm on Tuesday crossed into Madison County on Wednesday.

The son of a Democratic Tennessee state representative was indicted on Wednesday for hacking into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account, according to the Justice Department. David Kernell, son of state Rep. Mike Kernell, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, "for intentionally accessing without authorization" Palin's Yahoo e-mail account on Sept. 16.

A jaded husband took revenge on his wife and her lover when she told him she was leaving to be with the other man. Robert Avery McClain, 34, a Los Angeles Deputy, was charged with aggravated mayhem, torture and sodomy after holding the couple at knifepoint in the leasing office where the wife, whose name has not been released, worked.

The mayor of a small Arkansas town fired the entire city council, despite the fact that he lacked the authority to take such action against the six elected aldermen. One alderman is fighting back by circulating a petition to remove the mayor of Turrel, population 900.