In what may be the first incident ever recorded, a 53-year-old man from Prosser, Washington claims he was bitten by the decapitated head of a rattlesnake in his house and had to be hospitalized. The incident took place on Monday when Danny Anderson and his son saw the five-foot snake while feeding horses. The pair immediately pinned it with a pipe and cut off its head with a shovel.

A Malaysian witch doctor was detained by local police for questioning about the alleged aliens he buried in the neighborhood cemetery. The man was freed after he explained that banana tree trunks, not aliens, had been buried in a ceremony for "medicinal purposes," district police chief Haliludin Rahim told the press. Apparently the misunderstanding occurred after the gravediggers told some people that they were burying aliens and the rumor then spread out of control.

Authorities in a Chinese town have launched a new open toilet palace which features 1,000 innovatively designed urinals set in Egyptian style facade. While some of the urinals are shaped like a woman's mouth, others resemble the crocodile's mouth and the bust of a woman.

A ritual performed by a local witch doctor in a northern Malaysian village sparked rumors that space aliens had been buried in the neighborhood cemetery. However, the rumors were quashed Sunday when the witch doctor himself revealed the truth to the authorities. The New Straits Times newspaper reports that a group of four people, comprising a man in his 50s, a woman and two youths, buried six unidentified bodies in a single grave. When the grave digger inquired about the bodies, the old man in the group told him that they were aliens.

The obesity epidemic has spread to once slim and trim Japanese men who are using cutting edge technology to battle the bulge. Japanese men have turned to cell phone cameras to help them lose weight by keeping track of how many calories they eat. The scheme is simple. Instead of using a paper and pencil to record what they eat in a day, then look up the calories of that food and add them all up the men just pull out their cell phones and snap a photo of what they are about to stuff in their mouths.