Almost 50 people reportedly lost their sight after staring at the sky in hopes of catching a glimpse of the rumored image of the Virgin Mary. Officials of India's Kottayam district reported a total of 48 individuals experiencing the condition, after medical examinations determined that their retinas were burned from staring at the sun. The cases had reportedly been constantly coming in since Friday last week.

Two new planets similar to Jupiter and Saturn, were discovered by scientists, revealing an entirely new solar system 5,000 light years away from our own. The scientists, led by astronomy professor Andrzej Udalski, of the Warsaw University observatory, discovered the solar system by first detecting the presence of the star, which they identified to be smaller and much cooler than our own. An overlapping of the star and another much farther one visible from Earth resulted in the 500x magnification of the farther star. Discovered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), the phenomenon was dubbed OGLE-2006-BLG-109.

A woman who deposited an envelope of money in a local ATM was apprehended by police, after realizing that the envelope had inside it a bag of methamphetamine. The unnamed woman, aged 18, was reported to police by an employee of the Kitsap Credit Union who found the bag of meth inside her deposit envelope.

A boomerang stolen from a local museum was returned by the same tourist who took it 25 years ago. The artifact was put on display at Mt. Isa's Frank Aston Underground Museum, which is now closed. It was taken by an American tourist whose guilt urged him to return it, complete with an apology.

Television host Jeremy Clarkson has no one to blame but himself for losing money after publishing his bank account details in his newspaper column. Clarkson, who hosts the show "Top Gear," revealed his account numbers as he tried to downplay an incident involving the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs. But apparently, he was proven wrong after he discovered someone, who presumably read his column, used the details to charge a $986 donation to the charity Diabetes U. K. against his account just days after he published the details of his account at Barclays in his column at The Sun