Police arrested a 42-year-old woman Tuesday after neighbors complained she was disturbing them with chants around a self-built bonfire nearly 10 feet from her home at midnight. According to police reports, Brenna K. Barney, who was found clad only in a T-shirt and underwear, yelling chants in her backyard while wearing headphones. She even smelled of alcohol and told police the neighbors were infringing on her religious beliefs since she was performing a Wiccan ritual under the new moon.

Heterosexuals have been banned from staying at a gay hotel in Australia after the Victorian state Civil and Administrative Tribunal agreed to give the hotel the right to bar people from entering if the management considers them a threat to the safety and comfort of its patrons. The management of the Peel Hotel complained that the hotel's straight visitors created "a poisonous atmosphere" for its gay clientčle and asked that they be given the right to keep them out. According to BBC, the management said the ban would prevent straight men and women from abusing the hotel's gay customers.

After granting an interview with the New Yorker magazine last summer Ryan Jordan or "Essjay" was exposed. He had posed as a professor to edit material on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, which relies on volunteers to write and edit its content. Those volunteers must be qualified and show proof of their qualifications.

A man who claimed that he was a werewolf is facing a number of charges after being arrested for breaking into a woman's apartment. Robert Marsh, 39, a former inmate told police that he was a werewolf and could change shapes at his will. According to a criminal complaint filed against him, the woman called the police early Thursday and reported that Marsh broke through the deadbolt on her door and grabbed her by the arm. Two men in the home stopped him, it said, according to FDL reporter. com.

In a bid to protect women from the sexual harassment they face while traveling, an Indonesian firm has reportedly launched a bus-service which will accept only female passengers. The service is believed to be the first of its kind in the country that has the world's largest Muslim population. According to a report by the Kompas newspaper, PT Riau Kencana Madani, the company behind the bus-service, has launched the service to provide women with a safe environment and protect them from teasing and harassing by men while on public transport.