Spider-Man creator Stan Lee is preparing to unveil the world's first gay superhero in an hour-long TV drama being filmed in the U.S.

The 86-year-old former Marvel Comics boss and creator of the Hulk and the X-Men is said to be working on a project about high school basketball star Thom Creed, who hides his developing superpowers along with his sexuality. Lee developed the idea of a gay character from the award-winning novel Hero by Perry Moore.

A 9-year-old California boy used a choke hold on a pit bull to save a girl the dog was attacking.

Drew Heredia is being hailed as a hero after saving his 12-year-old friend.

Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now an action figure - a 12-inch doll action figure.

Online action figure store herobuilders.com on Tuesday unveiled its latest creation, a 12-inch plastic doll of Palin. The doll comes in three outfits, Sarah the Executive in conservative suit, Sarah the Superhero, a gun-toting superhero clad in a rad black-leahter trench coat, and a slightly sexed-up schoolgirl look.

Popular Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan was the first choice of voters in a Muslim province in southern Philippines, having bested all his 'competitors' in a mock election held Tuesday using computerized machines.

The Commission on Elections on Tuesday conducted a mock elections for the August 11 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, a autonomous province comprised mostly of Muslims in southern Philippines to test-run the new automated poll machines.

Greek archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Mycenaean-era tomb on the island of Lefkada as part of a road-widening project. Since the island was never before thought to have connections to the Mycenaean civilization, it could fuel debate on a major prehistoric puzzle; where the homeland of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus was located.

The tomb is thought to date from between 1580-1100 BC. While the nearby island of Ithaki is generally identified as the hero's kingdom, other theories have proposed Lefkada or neighboring Kefallonia.