small, single propeller airplane was forced to make in emergency landing on a street in northern Scottsdale due to mechanical problems with the aircraft. Motorists were in for a surprise when the airplane landed on Lone Mountain Road in northern Scottsdale, chosen by the 35-year-old pilot for its lack of traffic and remote location, when he and his 19-year-old student co-pilot were forced to land unexpectedly.

An Oregon town mayor has been kicked out from her post after posing on a fire truck in her black bra and underwear. According to city officials, Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist narrowly lost in Monday's recall election, 142-139, in a town with 500 registered voters. The recall is effective Tuesday.

According to Britain's Ministry of Defense, the number of UFO sightings in the country rose by about 40 percent last year. The Ministry of Defense said that in 2007, it had recorded at least 135 reports of UFO sightings. That is up from the 97 sightings recorded in 2006.

A talkative parrot who was never lost for words, lost his will to talk after straying in the wilds of Cambridgeshire for four days. According to his owner Cedric Tunnell, 66, Harley, an African Grey, loves to call them "Mom" and "Dad", could recite his telephone number and was constantly talking all of the time.

A recently conducted survey revealed that British citizens are becoming more liberal when it comes to sexual activity, with most finding nothing wrong with having premarital sex. With 3,000 respondents, the annually taken British Social Attitudes survey revealed that 70 percent of its randomly-chosen respondents think that there is nothing particularly wrong with engaging in sexual encounters with partners before marriage. The number indicated a significant difference from the 48 percent recorded back in 1984.