Thirty-nine-year-old Debbie Bird claims she is allergic to modern living and says mobile phones, microwaves and cars are banned from her house. Bird said she is sensitive to electromagnetic fields (emf) or "smog" created by computers, microwave ovens, mobile phones and some cars, and that she develops skin rashes and her eyelids swell to three times their normal size if she gets exposed to them.

A 70-year-old man from Britain is suffering from a unique sleep disorder that turns him violent as he sleeps, and he often ends up injuring himself while swearing at the top of his lungs. Derek Rogers of Bedford has broken his nose, fractured his knuckles and three of his ribs, hit his head many times, and lost pints of blood, but when he wakes up he claims he doesn't remember any of it.

The 15-year-old Florida girl whose continuous hiccups got her international attention seems to be in trouble again. Jennifer Mee, who started hiccupping on Jan. 23 close to 50 times a minute and continued through for more than a month, began hiccupping again Thursday morning after a nose bleed that occurred during her second day back at school. "I'm at my wit's end," the girl's mother, Rachel Robidoux, told the St. Petersburg Times.

A 26-year-old obese Chinese man first collapsed and then died last weekend after playing Internet video games non-stop for several hours. The man, who has only been identified Zhang from the city of Jinzhou hailed from China's Liaoning Province. According to the reports in China Daily, Zhang died Saturday after a continuous gaming session. Doctors said his death was caused by "overwork and obesity. "

Scottish stockbroker Leven Brown, aka "El Loco" is planning to establish another feat by becoming the first person to windsurf across the Atlantic, and then turn back to do it again using a more difficult route. Brown was nicknamed El Loco last year, after taking time off from his job as a stockbroker, to row solo from Spain to Tobago for charity.