During a trip to Germany, Kazakhstani minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev says the "mocumentary" Borat, simply doesn't make him laugh. The film, which depicts Kazakhstan as a backwards, antisemitic and misogynistic former Soviet republic, will likely be banned from theaters in the small Asian nation.

aine attorney Thomas Connolly, who days before the 2000 presidential election, released information about President George W. Bush's 1976 drunken driving conviction, was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic. After police in South Portland, Maine received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern attire, a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway, they arrested 49-year-old Thomas Connolly, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was later released on bail.

As Halloween approaches, the members of London Vampyre Group are searching for new recruits to participate in wild parties, trips to Transylvania and bat spotting nights. However, it ruled out coffin-dwelling and blood drinkers. LVG's Mick Smith, 57, told Reuters in an interview in a London pub, "People who think they're un-dead, hundreds of years old, or that you have to drink blood if you're interested in the dark side of things, we can put them right on that. "

Two Irishmen are making mounds of money by shipping soil from "the mother country" to Irish Americans who want it put on their caskets. Pat Burke, 27, and Alan Jenkins, 65, are selling 0. 75 lb. bags for $15 dollars each. Burke and Jenkins have already shipped about 528,000 pounds of soil to New York, and they think that the number of people who want Irish dirt will surely keep rising.

Eyelash transplant surgery is gaining popularity as the new must-have procedure for women and sometimes even men. The procedure uses the same "plug and sew" techniques developed in the hair loss industry. "Longer, thicker lashes are an ubiquitous sign of beauty. Eyelash transplantation does for the eyes what breast augmentation does for the figure," said Dr. Alan Bauman, a leading proponent of eyelash transplants.