An 88-year-old man shot dead his 87-year-old wife before shooting himself inside a patient room at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey in an apparent mercy killing-suicide on Friday. The shooter did not die but was seriously wounded and taken to the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, according to police.

It will be a McCartney versus McDonald's battle as the former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney called Wednesday for a boycott of the hamburger chain for using the Beatles' image at a Liverpool outlet. McCartney is a vegetarian for the past three decades, and McDonald's use of the Beatles' photo at its restaurant in his hometown rankled him.

Health officials in a Montana county issued a health advisory after the mother of two elementary school student brought a dead bat into an elementary school for a demonstration and allowed about 90 students to touch it. The mother reportedly found the dead bat in a cat's mouth, thought the bat was interesting, brought it into school and gave presentations on the bat in five classrooms, allowing students to touch the bat and giving them disinfectant wipes for their hands afterward.

Google Inc. has introduced a new feature in its Gmail that will prevent a drunk person from sending stupid or bad e-mails late at night. The optional feature called "Mail Goggles" activates when Gmail users compose e-mail at the program's default launching time of between 10 p. m. of Friday to 4 a. m. on Saturday. Arithmetical quizzes will appear on the screen that should be answered in seconds by the user. Failure to answer the quizzes will cause the e-mail to be put on hold.

A Briton, a Canadian and a New Zealander have made history by becoming the first three people to skydive above Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. A plane taking off from Shyangboche airport brought Neil Jone, Holly Budge and Wendy Smith to 29,500 feet, 2,500 feet above the 27,000-foot Everest. From there, they jumped in their thermal suit, oxygen tank and extra-thick parachutes landing back at the airport 12,350 feet below.