A cemetery in Copenhagen has designated an area for homosexuals who wish to be buried with people of the same sexual orientation. The area in Assistens Cemetery is funded by an association called Regnbuen (Rainbow). It rented space in the cemetery that can accommodate up to 45 urns. Each spot costs $526 (2,500 kroner}.

A cracked jug started with a bid of $390 at an auction, fetched $430,000, but could eventually command a whopping tag price of $9. 77 million after experts deemed it was part of the rarest treasures of medieval Egypt. . According to staff at the Lawrence's auction house in Crewkerne, Somerset, the enameled jug, decorated with mythological animals and birds, was initially thought to be from 19th century France, hence the low guide price for the bid.

A song by Sean Paul titled "Temperature," triggers a woman to seizure. Stacey Gayle said that the seizures occur regardless of the volume that the song is played. Gayle noticed the connection between her seizures and the music at a cookout where the song was being played, "then it happened at a restaurant," she said.

The remains of a giant rat, estimated to weigh about a ton, was discovered in Uruguay proving that mammoth rodent once roamed the face of the earth some four million years ago. Archaeologists said they have unearthed the half-meter long skull of the giant prehistoric rat, which by any standard, is bigger than a bull, in a chunk of rock in Rio de La Plata on the coast of Uruguay.

Whereas students used to learn the writings of Dante within the four walls of their classrooms, Italian teenagers now are flocking to nightclubs to hear the 14th century poetry of the literary great. Passages from Dante's works including The Divine Comedy have been set to music by leading Italian disc jockey, Alessio Bertallot which aptly accompanies Italian actress Lucilla Giagnoni's reading.