Officials in the state of Bihar have created a novel idea to both rehabilitate beggars and help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS: pay beggars to sing songs and enact plays to raise awareness of the deadly virus. They want to train many of the estimated 100,000 homeless in the state to put on street plays about AIDS and to sing songs about it in trains and buses and on the sides of busy roads.

According to an Israeli-born psychic Uri Geller, the December 2003 capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was not simply a matter of luck or the work of sophisticated intelligence gathering. Rather, members of a US paranormal program used psychic powers to locate the tiny hole containing the bearded and bedraggled dictator. Geller claims to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War. He said on Monday that his knowledge of the psychic discovery of Saddam is gathered from a high-level source in the secret US paranormal program.

n a modern day version of the Scarlet Letter, Delaware Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden sentenced 69-year-old Russell Teeter to wear a T-shirt with the words: "I am a registered sex offender" in bold letters. After pleading guilty to two counts of indecent exposure, Teeter was also sentenced to 60 days in jail in addition to the unusual t-shirt punishment, which he will have to wear to work for 22 months after he is incarcerated.

Indian censoring authorities want to ban daytime screening of a advertisement promoting 'XXX' strawberry, chocolate and banana flavored condoms. They perceive the catch line "what is your flavor of the night" as offensive. The Chairperson of the censor board of India, Sharmila Tagore expressed his thinking on the ads in strong words to the Times of India newspaper.

A Delaware judge sentenced a man who exposed himself to a 10-year-old girl at his workplace twice to don a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: "I am a registered sex offender. " Russell Teeter, 69, admitted to two counts of indecent exposure. He will also face 60 days in jail.