The people of Kerala in India's southwest are famed for turning fish into spicy feasts fit for gods, but last week the heavens turned provider as fish rained down on the village of Manna. When the clouds broke, villagers said they saw small, pencil-thin live fish falling from the sky.

London, UK (AHN)-The biggest gathering of spoon players has set the world record. An estimated 345 people played out the pub favourite "Knees Up Mother Brown" for a panel of adjudicators in Trowbridge, southwest England. The multitude was gathered by the amateur street theatre group Stripey-Jumper.

Police in China have arrested a man while attempting to sell the fur of a cub panda for about $30,000. The animal is considered in China as a national treasure. China's official Xinhua news agency quoted an expert as saying, "The fur is 60 centimeters (24 inches) long and belonged to a panda cub. "

Burbank, IL (AHN)-A 15-year-old southwest suburban Illinois boy and his friends are wondering what they did to make a group of teens beat him, take his prosthetic leg and use it as a weapon on a friend who came to his rescue. D. J. Choate of Burbank and some friends were outside near 79th Street and Nagle Avenue when a group of teens drove past and almost hit him on Monday morning just after midnight.

Chinese officials will be using bananas and sugar to try to lure hungry elephants away from farmlands. According to a Reuters report, three villagers were killed by elephants around nature reserves in Xishuangbanna in the southwest province of Yunnan. Also, 12,000 families have reported that their crops were destroyed last year to elephants.