A court ruling made recently has deemed it illegal for males to scratch their private parts in public. The decision was made at Italy's Court of Appeal, where a man's act of scratching his private parts was described as "an act contrary to decorum and public decency. "

xtramarital affairs and mid-life crisis were the most common cause of marriage breakdown, according to the results of the survey of 100 leading divorce lawyers in England and Wales conducted by chartered accountants Grant Thornton. The survey revealed that 29 percent of divorces last year were due to extramarital affairs (from 32 percent previously) and 14 percent were because of mid-life crisis. In majority or 93 percent of mid-life crises, the man was the one who was undergoing the crisis.

Indian police swooped down on a Delhi suburb Sunday morning and arrested five people, including a doctor, on suspicion of removing kidneys from young men without their consent with the intent of selling them to wealthy patients. Local reports said that the illegal organ transplant trade was being operated in a private hospital in Gurgaon, just outside Delhi, where at least 500 kidneys have already been illegally transplanted.

State mailers with labels bearing the Social Security numbers of recipients were sent again to tens of thousands of people in Wisconsin repeating the same mistake that happened only 13 months ago. EDS Corp. , a Texas-based private vendor contracted to prepare the state mail, discovered on Monday that the mailing labels of benefits brochures sent to 260,000 Medicaid, SeniorCare and BadgerCare members had the recipients' social security numbers printed on it. The firm stopped mailing the brochures to 225,000 other recipients on Tuesday.

It used to be that thousands of Filipinos and foreigners would search the islands, spurred on by myths of Japanese World War II plunder. For decades, fortune seekers have traveled to the archipelago in search of hidden riches stolen by Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita and allegedly hidden across the island nation. However a new edict by Environment Secretary Lito Atienza will place all treasure-hunting activities under the watchful eyes of government regulation to protect the nation's natural and cultural heritage.