In an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record, more than 2,000 people in China's city of Changsha will take part in a singing marathon this weekend. The participants plan on singing continuously for 116 hours from Sunday to Friday to smash the current 100-hour record.

The Underwater Music Festival had a brush with the King of Rock and Roll when an Elvis impersonator was among the snorkelers and divers who swam Looe Key Reef. Neil Goldberg, of Key West, dressed in a white-caped jumpsuit and flashy gold chains, joined several hundred visitors and residents who took the plunge for the six-hour weekend radio broadcast. "We even had a Chihuahua in goggles and a swim vest on one of the dive boats," festival founder Bill Becker told the Associated Press.

Jericho, West Bank (AHN)-The Palestinian man who befriended a 16-year-old Michigan girl through the popular MySpace. com Web site and invited her to join him in Jericho says he is heartbroken by U. S. authorities' decision to send her back home. Abdullah Jimzawi, 20, who is an internet buff who spends at least 10 hours a day on the Internet, says that his love for Katherine Lester, of Gilford, Michigan was pure and they planned to marry. He also decried attempts to portray him as an internet predator.

Stalin-era Hawaiian-styled surf songs, mixed by a Russian DJ are taking over the airways in Eastern Europe, with also thousands of copies flying off the store shelves as well. Gulag Tunes, created by Mikhail Antipov, is a collection of Stalin-era prison songs mixed with Hawaiian surf music, with the cover album showing Stalin draped in a Hawaiian-style garland of skulls.

The Hymnal Plus, a karaoke-like machine that can play almost 3,000 hymns and songs, is becoming all the rage in English churches. The British-made machine can play traditional songs familiar to churchgoers in a conventional fashion. However, for the more fun-loving parishioners, it's also capable of a disco version of "Amazing Grace" and a jazzed-up "The Lord's My Shepard. "