ngola is staging a beauty contest on April 2 with landmine victims as participants in order to raise awareness of the plight of tens of thousands of people injured by landmines. 'Miss Landmine Survivor' is organized by National Commission for De-mining and Humanitarian Assistance (CNIDAH). "The objective of the contest is to restore self-esteem (in women maimed by the mines) and make them ambassadors for their own cause," said CNIDAH coordinator Madalena Neto.

Police in Bethlehem, New York found the bodies of two suicide victims and a woman who failed to kill herself with drug overdose on New Year's Day. The fatalities are believed to be a 73-year-old man and his mother-in-law in her 80s. Both died from overdose of different prescription medicines. The survivor is believed to be the man's 58-year-old wife. They are believed to be have made a pact to commit suicide on Jan. 1 at their house along Stony Brook Drive.

Fox Executives are about to show America whether or not some adults are smarter than fifth graders. The network will launch a new game show called, "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?" It will feature adults answering questions found in fifth grade textbooks. The show will air later this year.

Three Mexican shark fishermen claim that they survived more than nine months at sea in a small boat by eating raw fish and drinking rain water as they drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean. The fishermen said they left their home town of San Blas on Mexico's Pacific coast last October to fish for sharks. But due to some mechanical problems at the boat and adverse winds they were blown towards the sea.

It could be the worst first date in history. What started out as a nice time with sushi and jet skiing turned into quite an ordeal. Jessica Lucarini, 26, and Michael Eckhoff, 28, were on their first date when their jet ski broke down on an isolated stretch of the Myakka River in southwest Florida.