According to an Israeli-born psychic Uri Geller, the December 2003 capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was not simply a matter of luck or the work of sophisticated intelligence gathering. Rather, members of a US paranormal program used psychic powers to locate the tiny hole containing the bearded and bedraggled dictator. Geller claims to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War. He said on Monday that his knowledge of the psychic discovery of Saddam is gathered from a high-level source in the secret US paranormal program.

The U. S. Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) says they have identified a serviceman who was listed as missing in action (MIA) from the Korean War. Pfc. Francis Crater Jr. , U. S. Army's 32nd Infantry Regiment, of Barberton, Ohio will be returned to his family and buried with full military honors, October 21 in Akron, Ohio.

According to a report by the Sun-Sentinel, a 17-year-old teenage boy was arrested for the alleged theft of vehicle burglaries in Broward County, Florida, as undercover detectives saw him driving around a gas station that had already reported 10 vehicle burglaries over the last few days. The police found several identification cards of other individuals, jewelry and a couple of PDAs in the car that the teenager was driving, which was also reported as stolen.

A balloon, that managed to travel over 2,500 miles from England to Iraq, was discovered by a British soldier while clearing landmines in the warn-torn country. Corporal Pete Allen found the balloon, which was released by 5-year-old Kelvin Bielunski, as part of his schools' competition to raise funds for an infant school in Peterborough, England.

A Japanese man who was left behind in land that was given to the Soviet Union following World War II, has returned to his homeland. Yoshiteru Nakagawa, now 79 years old, was returned to Japan for the first time in 67 years.