A boomerang stolen from a local museum was returned by the same tourist who took it 25 years ago. The artifact was put on display at Mt. Isa's Frank Aston Underground Museum, which is now closed. It was taken by an American tourist whose guilt urged him to return it, complete with an apology.

The adage "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is not true, according to a new book on insults. In the real world, words do have significant effects, says University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) professor of humanities Jerome Neu in his new book, "Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults" (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Scientists in Hungary are lost in quandary after a shark in a local aquarium gave birth to a pup without even having contact with a male shark. Staff of the Nyiregyhaza Centre said they were surprised when the seven-year old White-tipped reef shark gave birth to a pup even though the shark never had a male for a company.

A judge in western Canada's Saskatchewan province on Wednesday granted a Canadian woman's civil suit against her drug dealer for selling her addictive street narcotics that caused her hospitalization due to overdose. Sandra Bergen, the drug addict, won by default after her drug dealer refused to identify the source of the narcotics.

Move over Ace Ventura! The real pet detective is here. After becoming disillusioned with his country's justice system, Tom Watkins quit as a member of the police force and assumed a new role tracking down lost cats and dogs.