A distress signal supposedly send off by a ship was finally traced to a scrapyard in Belfast. According to a spokesman for Ofcom, the agency responsible for monitoring all radio broadcasts and for investigating cases of interference, the beacon was found in a mountain of scrapped fridges and TVs after the mayday was picked up by receivers on the Isle of Man.

The Chinese Confucius Foundation in cooperation with China's two media giants inked a $ 5. 3 million deal on Friday to make a cartoon series highlighting the life and teachings of the popular ancient philosopher, Confucius. The cartoon series, to be composed of 100 episodes in 13-minuter format each, will be aired to mark the 2,560th birth anniversary of Confucius in 2009.

A dentist is facing lawsuit from a former patient who claims she suffered injuries when he started dancing during a tooth extraction. Brandy Fanning, 31, alleges the dentist, Dr. George Trusty based at Syracuse Community Health Center, started dancing to Rose Royce's song Car Wash playing on the radio while drilling Fanning's tooth.

No Halloween street party this time in San Francisco's Castro District. City officials encouraged residents, revelers, and tourists, on radio and television, to stay at home or party somewhere else.

It was in invitation no thief could ever refuse. The organizers of the Basel Shift Festival found this out when a thief ran off with the book titled "Steal this Book. "