A woman was accused of sexual assault after a mall Santa told officials that she had groped him while sitting on his lap. Police said that the woman suspected was Sandrama Lamy, 33, of Danbury, Connecticut. "The security officer at the mall sand Santa Claus had been sexually assaulted," Detective Lt. Thomas Michael, who was sent to investigate the claim. According to police, Lamy was window shopping with a friend when she decided to get her photograph taken with the mall Santa.

Around fifty Christmas shoppers dreaming of spending a shopping spree Lille, France ended up some 100 miles off from their destination after blunder in satellite navigation send their bus to another Lille in Belgium instead. "It was ridiculous," one passenger described the error. "The coach driver obviously had two Lilles to choose from on his sat-nav and he picked the wrong one.

Brian Rush, 28, did not like the discipline of the seminary but he loved the perks of a priest. Rush, who quit the seminary after a month in 2006, dressed in black, wore a cross and a white strip of cardboard on his neck and went shopping at a local grocery store in Pittston.

Around 20 riot police were summoned to help pacify angry tourists in Macau, China who claimed they were being forced into shopping by being led to shops instead of being shown the country's cultural heritage. The tourists complained their guides were pressuring them to buy foods and other goodies instead of showing them more of the former Portuguese colony's historic sites.

Several members of a choral group singing Christmas carols for shoppers in a mall in Llandudno almost ended up being jailed after mall authorities summoned the help of local police in trying to stop them - from singing. According to reports, the choral group composed of 29 children with ages ranging from six to 11, were at first asked by to stop by a security guard of the shopping center after receiving complaints from shoppers the children were singing a bit loud.