A Swedish lesbian couple who were thrown out of a Stockholm restaurant in 2003 for kissing won an appeal Monday against an earlier court ruling that cleared the restaurant owner of sexual discrimination. The Court of Appeals in Stockholm ordered restaurant owner Aziz Cakir to pay 50,000 crowns ($7,100) in damages and to cover the legal costs of Sweden's activist group against sexual discrimination, HomO, which filed the appeal. Cakir asked Anna Fernstrom and Susanne Gustafsson to leave his restaurant after they kissed and later told police he did not let anyone engage in such behavior on his premises regardless of their sexual orientation. Stockholm District Court cleared him of discrimination - a charge that can result in a year in jail - in the first trial against him. The issue being the country's first test of legislation against sexual discrimination in the provision of goods and services. But HomO director Hans Ytterberg said the appeals court found the restaurant failed to prove "these two girls behaved in a way that would justify telling them to stop or telling them to leave the premises. " "The Court of Appeals has made it clear that discriminating on grounds of sexual orientation is a serious violation of people's rights and can cost you dearly. This will hopefully function as an effective deterrent. "

W. J. Brown - All Headline News Police arrested a 17-year-old Sammamish, Washington teen Tuesday they alledge was trying defraud his insurance company. Apparently the suspect didn't really like his aimed at junking his $42,000 2002 BMW M3 that much. . . He really wanted to upgrade to a new 2005 Bentley Continental GT coupe. According to Michael Chiu, a police spokesperson, the teen reported his expensive BMW stolen while working at his job at a restaurant in downtown Bellevue on Monday evening. The car was found by Snoqualmie police the next morning, at an unspecified location, and arrested four men, both young adults and juveniles, who were in the process of stripping the cars parts. The foursome were arrested for first-degree possession of stolen property. After their arrested they implicated the car's owner, who they claim wanted his BMW stolen so he could collect insurance money and buy the Bentley. The teenager was interviewed by police and released to his parents. Investigation details will be forwarded to the King County Prosecutor's Office for investigation of fraud. The Bentley 2005 Bentley Continental GT coupe, that the teen wanted, has a 552-horsepower engine and a top speed of 190 mph, runs about $159,000, nicely equiped.

Six elephants escaped from a South Korean amusement park Wednesday wreaking havoc through the capital's busy streets. "It seems one of them panicked, causing the others to also panic and flee the grounds," one official said. The elephants broke into a restaurant in the eastern part of the city. One elephant ran into an alley, hitting a 52-year-old woman with its trunk. Officials say one elephant was detained at a police station, before all were returned to the park. The elephants escaped from the Children's Grand Park during a circus performance.

Wendy's International Inc. offers $100,000 reward (doubled from its original offer) for information leading to the origin of a human finger found in a bowl of chili from a California Wendy's last month. According to Wendy's President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Mueller, the company's franchises and employees have done nothing wrong, yet are paying a high price for the finger incident - specifically those in the San Jose, CA. area where the finger appeared in a customers chili order. Workers have been either laid-off or had their hours reduced. "Our brand reputation has been affected nationally," Mueller said. "We are determined to find out what really happened in this incident. " There have been no reports of finger or hand accidents in any Wendy's restaurant and all employees passed lie detector tests, Wendy's confirmed in a statement Friday. Anna Ayala, the customer who discovered the finger in her order, dropped her legal claim against the fast-food chain. Official conducted a search of her residence as part of the investigation, but have not released any details.

39-year old Anna Ayala claims to have found part of a human finger in chili she purchased at a Wendy fast food restaurant, but now she is reconsidering her lawsuit against the hamburger chain. Ayala's lawyer says initially his client was upset saying the incident "has caused her great emotional distress and continues to be difficult emotionally. " However, she apparently has had a change of heart. On March 22, Ayala says she discovered a portion of a finger measuring about 1