Men's clothing company Kale Miles announced the availability of a belt with an $18,000 price tag. The staggering cost of what is nothing but a strip of leather comes from the seven- to eight-ounce buckle, made entirely of platinum - a compound that, as of Friday, was determined to be priced at about $1,560 per ounce.

Brian Rush, 28, did not like the discipline of the seminary but he loved the perks of a priest. Rush, who quit the seminary after a month in 2006, dressed in black, wore a cross and a white strip of cardboard on his neck and went shopping at a local grocery store in Pittston.

Afrol News on Thursday ran a satiric comic strip panel on the United Republic of Tanzania. Located in East Africa and bordered by Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and the Indian Ocean, the tiny nation is one of the poorest countries on earth. As is the case in much of Africa, Tanzania has had more than its share of problems, but perhaps not as many problems as Zimbabwe has had.

A U. S. appeals court has upheld a worker's compensation claim for a pole dancer who was injured while performing in a strip club six years ago. Court records show exotic dancer Angela Hobson undergoing a surgery for a herniated disc in her cervical spine (the seven vertebrae at the base of the skull) for the injuries at the Shangri-La West club in Fort Wayne on 20 December 2001.

An Indiana appeals court Tuesday ruled in favor of an exotic dancer who reportedly injured herself while pole dancing at a Ft. Wayne, Indiana strip club. According to court documents, Angela Hobson suffered injuries after performing a pole dance at the Shangri-La West club in December 2001. She said she reported soreness and numbness to her supervisors, which they later denied. Soon after the incident, she required surgery for a herniated disc in her cervical spine.