A legal battle over one man's dead parents is now over thanks to a mechanical failure. A Frenchman who fought a tedious court battle, according to BBC news, to keep his parents' bodies in a deep-freeze has cremated them after the freezer broke down. Remy Martinot's parents were frozen soon after their deaths in the hope of bringing them back to life.

London's much loved signature red Routemaster double-decker buses as a symbol of the famed city are now a thing of the past. The last of the buses went finished route 159 on Friday ending at Oxford Street.

The highest level court in the United Methodist Church has defrocked a lesbian minister for violating the denomination's ban on "self-avowed, practicing homosexual" clergy. A church panel decided in December the Rev. Irene "Beth" Stroud, 35, engaged in practices the church has declared incompatible with Christian teachings. The decision was based on her being in a lesbian partnership.

An activist who opposes illegal immigration acknowledges paying more than a dozen homeless people $10 each to hold signs during a rally earlier this week, but assures they agreed with his message. D. A. King, who spoke at the rally, says Wednesday he paid "14 willing American workers to let their voices be heard about illegal immigration. "