California is holding a garage sale of sorts. The novel move to unload the cash strapped state's unnecessary items begins on Friday with deals galore for savvy shoppers looking to aid the Grizzly bear state.

The event, being held in the capital at a Sacramento warehouse, is being called the Great California Garage Sale, and according to state officials is the largest surplus sale since the state last rolled out its surplus of governmental goods shortly after Schwarzenegger was elected in 2004.

A foundation dedicated to preserving the heritage of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has found two new piano pieces composed by the famous Austrian musical genius.

The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria said the works have been in its possession and will play it before the media in a press conference on August 2.

A Middle Eastern prince has bought a Ł300 million "flying palace".

Saudi Arabia's Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal- has reportedly splashed out on the plane which, when completed in three years time, will be the world's largest private jet.

Johnny Eck, a "half-man" born with no legs, grew into a proficient hand-walker.

In 1940, a Dutch goat was born without front legs and learned to walk upright. So did Faith, a two-legged dog in Oklahoma.

Miami-Dade County police found four bodies, victims of a murder-suicide, inside a south Miami-Dade home on Wednesday morning.

The dead were identified as former tenor and piano teacher Pablo Josue Amador, 54; his wife, Maria, 47; and daughters Rosa and Priscila age 13 and 14. One son, Javier, 16, survived by running out of the house. Another daughter, Beula Beatriz, 20, a student at the University of Miami, also survived.