Mathematicians at the University of California Los Angeles claim that they have found a 13-million-digit prime number long sought by computer users. The Los Angeles Times reported the discovery of the first verified Mersenne prime number with more than 10 million digits qualifies UCLA for a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The discovery is the 46th known Mersenne prime number and the eighth Mersenne prime discovered at UCLA.

Local officials in a town near Pittsburgh are accusing a reverend and his wife of running a swingers sex club in a house of worship. John and Kim Ondrick of Huntingdon Township facilitate nature worship at the Church for Spiritual Humanism, located in a residential area.

The U. S. Coast Guard and Navy have discovered and captured another makeshift submarine transporting cocaine in international waters 400 miles off the Mexico-Guatemala border. Coast Guard officials announced Friday that crews of the Seattle-based U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett boarded the 60-foot semi-submersible vessel Wednesday after it was spotted by a Navy patrol plane and seized at least 200 bales of cocaine wrapped in plastic aboard. The illegal cargo has a street value of $196 million.

Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson will not be running in the federal election citing an importunate nosebleed that started in Beijing last month. AFP reported that the hemorrhage was caused by weakened capillaries in his nose as a result of frequent flights and the air in Beijing during the Olympic Games. .

Britain's Prince Harry spent a staggering Ł5,000 during a two-hour drinking binge in a London nightclub. The 23-year-old royal started the evening with girlfriend Chelsy Davy, but later engaged in a drinking competition when US rocker Cisco Adler arrived at Boujis nightclub.