A study by a British think tank has given UK youth the dubious distinction of being the most badly behaved teenagers in all of Europe. The institute looked at the results of a number of studies of adolescents conducted in recent years.

South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday led a parade in salute for the nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants participating in the 48-nation Homeless World Cup football tournament. The week long event is aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.

A hamster escaped from his owner and traveled from Devon to Scotland. Fudge, a pet hamster of Kingsly Moyle, was placed securely in a safety box and taken on vacation with his owner. However the wily pet escaped as Moyle was about to return to his native town in Kingsteignton.

The wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair was questioned by child protection officials when she only pretended to slap one of the boys. The incident happened when Cherie Blair was being photographed with teenager Miles Gandolfi at the U. K. Schools Games sports event in Glasgow, Scotland, when the 17-year-old boy in question jokingly raised his hand behind her head to make a "bunny ears" gesture.

A goldfish at the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh has undergone cosmetic surgery after visitors complained of its ugliness. The fish had an "unsightly" growth on its face and visitors of the museum regularly complained that it looks ugly. According to the Scotsman, the gold fish has undergone the cosmetic surgery to remove a growth from its eye.