The Netherlands's Maastricht University has awarded a British scientist his doctorate for a paper predicting that humans will someday marry robots. In his thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners which earned him his PhD. David Levy wrote stated that the "trends in robotics and shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will eventually be seen as suitable marriage partners. "

A Qatari national has received a $4. 3 million offer to buy his 400-year-old copy of the Holy Koran. Saeed Ali Al Suwaidi, who got the rare handwritten book from a Yemeni Islamic scholar in Makkah, Saudi Arabia last Ramadan, said the offer came from among the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Emirati prospective buyers who approached him.

A 38-year old woman arrested for petty theft almost got additional jail sentence over a vial of cat urine. According to a local paper, Cynthia Hunter was arrested Aug. 15 on a charge of petty theft after she was accused of stealing from a Wal-Mart store.

n a country where most people live on just a dollar or less a day, an 11-year-old boy who gathers discarded plastic bottles for money returned the equivalent of over $400 USD that he found on the road. Gicoven Abarquez is penniless, malnourished and has never owned a pair of shoes. He works the streets of Dagupan City in northern Philippines to help his parents make ends meet. He is one of the thousands of Filipino boys, some barely in their teens, who go to school and also work collecting discarded plastic containers to sell back to recycling centers.

An amorous peacock had an aristocrat fuming mad after it caused a $8,100 damage to his employee's blue Lexus car - by trying to have sex with it. According to a local paper, Baronet Sir Benjamin Slade has put in a claim to insurers to cover the damage to his employee's car.