A photographer had put out a call for a Gordon Brown lookalike, which she said was urgently needed. The artist was 37-year old Alison Jackson, who has been known to take and publish photographs of mirror images of such figures as Princess Diana, David Beckam, George Bush, and the Queen herself. The notoriety of her photographs stems from the fact that the photos she takes are of the lookalikes in compromising positions.

A man posing as a Catholic priest was apprehended at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a routine body check found the man to be carrying 7 lbs of cocaine under his robes. According to Dutch police, they got suspicious of the man whose identity had been withheld when they spotted him in line at a different gate after initially refusing to undergo a routine body check "for religious reasons. "

A California man explained that the discovery of the legendary Bigfoot was essential to the further advancement of scientific research and discovery. Daniel Perez, the director of the Center Bigfoot Studies, explained that the discovery of the creature would shed light on the scientific community. Because of this, he had traveled across the country, interviewing people who claimed to have seen the elusive primate.

It used to be that thousands of Filipinos and foreigners would search the islands, spurred on by myths of Japanese World War II plunder. For decades, fortune seekers have traveled to the archipelago in search of hidden riches stolen by Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita and allegedly hidden across the island nation. However a new edict by Environment Secretary Lito Atienza will place all treasure-hunting activities under the watchful eyes of government regulation to protect the nation's natural and cultural heritage.

A mother was arrested for supplying nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, to her 13-year-old son and his friends. Maria Antonia Mendez, 28, allegedly gave the gas to the teenagers, who used it to get high. The teens were discovered after skipping school in Lake Elsinore, said Sgt. Evan Petersen of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.