Green Day are proud a child was conceived at their show.

Drummer Tre Cool revealed the group - comprising him, singer Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt - were delighted to hear the parents went on to christen their baby Dookie after the band's 1994 breakthrough album.

What can best be described as group spying has resulted in one of the world's most complete maps of one of the world's most secretive countries, North Korea.

The map, a project of Google Earth, reveals hundreds of sites rarely if ever seen by Westerners. Those include markets, manufacturing plants, prisons, anti-aircraft locations, military bases, and even the seaside homes of political leaders.

A man fell down a 16th floor shaft at a New York construction site and sustained only minor injuries after a tangle of ductwork broke his fall.

George Saguay, a welder, slipped while working about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday on the 16th floor of a construction site, the UPI reported.

CBS announced that Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera on TV, would air its last episode Sept. 18.

After 72 years and more than 15,700 episodes, it appears low ratings rung the death knoll for the series, thought CBS has not offered an official reason for the shows cancellation.

While German cruise line operators are not willing to place the lives of their passengers every time their vessels pass through the Gulf of Aden, a growing number of Filipino seaman are not scared of working in ships that navigate the piracy-prone area, provided the salary is right.

The biggest incentives for Filipino crews, who make up almost one-third of the mariners aboard ocean-going vessels, is the high pay. Somalia-bound ships pay cooks $3,000 monthly, which is probably what a Manila cook will earn in one year.