In an attempt to participate in the Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship on Sept. 22, "The Black Widow," the world's best 'lobster eating' woman will make her way to South Portland, Maine. Sonya Thomas is the 100-pound woman from Alexandria, Virginia that consumed 11. 3 pounds of lobster meat in 12 minutes in 2005 in Kennebunk.

Nearly a dozen 7-Eleven convenience stores will wear a new face replicating the famed Kwik-E-Marts from "The Simpsons" cartoon. Kwik-E-Mart, which was designed in the show to poke fun at 7-Eleven Inc's more than 6,000 North American stores, features unhealthy snacks like Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees -- a spin off of 7-Eleven's Slurpees.

A life-sized Homer Simpson statue has been recovered and returned to the movie theater from which it was stolen, located in a popular suburban shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. "This case has been solved," Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia's central Petaling Jaya district, told the Associated Press. The culprits, tracked down by local police, were allegedly just overzealous fans of "The Simpsons. "

Hospitals in East Lancashire, England have issued a directive ordering all hospital staff not to wear socks with characters like Donald Duck or Homer Simpson or they will face disciplinary action. The Trust, the organization that oversees hospitals in the counties of Burnley, Blackburn and Rossendale counties, issued the order.

Sacha Baron Cohen tried to get into the White House while posing as a fake TV reporter from Kazakhstan, but he didn't succeed. Secret Service agents turned away Cohen, who was pretending to be Borat, an anti-semitic journalist. He was there to invite President Bush to a screening of his movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. "