A Royal Air Force fighter jet on a routine flight has accidentally dropped a 14kg practice bomb on Scotland Monday. The RAF said it has no idea whether the device survived the fall and have yet to locate the bomb. Nevertheless, it is warning the public against touching it.

Frustrated with numerous and repeated technical problems that had grounded its entire international route fleet of two Boeing 757s, officials for Nepal's state-owned airline committed the ritual killing of two goats. Nepal Airline officials hoped that the sacrifice would appease the Hindu Sky God, Akash Bhairab. Ritual animal sacrifice is a common and accepted practice in the Hindu religion.

A Japanese man driving a motorcycle severed his right leg after colliding with a concrete highway divider but did not notice the injury until after driving for a few minutes and two kilometers (1. 24 miles) away from accident site, the local media in Japan reported on Wednesday. The accident happened at Nishi Ward in the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan. According to Japan Today, police said Kazuo Nagata, 54, was driving along the Hamana bypass of National Highway Route 1 at about 6:30 a. m. on Tuesday (9:30 p. m. , Monday, GMT) when he failed to negotiate a left turn and hit the central divider that severed his right leg about 10 centimeters (3. 94 inches) below the knee. Nagata continued driving unaware of the injury and only noticed his missing right leg when he and his friends stopped at an interchange about 1. 24 miles from the scene of the accident.

A taxi cab was tasked to keep a human heart for few hours at its dispatch office after an airline refused to keep it overnight at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. The human heart, which was en route to a tissue processing company in Atlanta, was denied delivery by officials from Aeropoint Delivery Solutions of Marietta, Georgia. The cab company, however, said that it will keep the heart as the ice in the packaging to keep it intact.

A Merritt Island newspaper carrier's close relationship with her customers and her attention to detail saved one man's life. Tonya Brand was on her normal route delivering the daily newspaper when she noticed one of her customers, Jean Plante, had not picked up his paper from the day before.