A birthday party invitation posted on the popular social websites Facebook and Bebo attracted some 400 guests and gatecrashers, who destroyed and robbed the plush celebration venue in Spain. The birthday celebrator, British 16-year-old Jodie Hudson, and her mother Amanda learned too late the disaster the online invitation would cause to their luxurious Marbella vacation villa, which suffered ruined walls, destroyed carpets, and broken banisters, doors and furniture.

The home and auto industries are two of the hardest hit sectors in the U. S. Rising foreclosures mark the housing sector, while closing car manufacturing plants are common in the auto plant. Given the parallel routes these two industries pass through, it is not surprising to hear American couples throwing in a used car as a freebie, just to unload on the market a debt-ridden home.

A 'fish in formaldehyde,' a piece of work by artist Damien Hirst that has been displayed for almost a decade at a fish and chips shop will go under the hammer at an auction at Bonhams. It is expected to fetch as much as 150,000 GBP ($202,000 USD) when Bonhams opens the bidding later this year. The fish was given by Hirst in 1994 to Darren Walker who went to school with his brother Bradley. Now Walker plans to use the money he will derive from the auction of the artwork to clear his mortgage. Walker ran the shop until it closed in 2002. For eight years the fish was mounted on a wall without a label beside the counter.

A device attached to surf boards to repel sharks and protect surfers from getting attacked by the sea predator failed during an actual test off South Africa on Friday when a great white shark ate it. The failure of the Shark Shield's emitted electric field to deter sharks from approaching the board caused the sale of the device manufactured by Australian firm Shark Shield Pty. Ltd. to be suspended.

The owners of a trout farm in Southampton were more than amazed to discover why they losing their fishes after a photographer caught on camera the trout fleeing one by one from the fishpond onto a nearby river. Capturing the fishes' escape with the aid of his camera, wildlife photographer Dennis Bright, 59, describe the scene as incredible.