Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson wanted an Audi-themed office. So he decided to decorate his room with car parts.

Upon entering his office, visitors will be treated with sofas made out of car seats, rear-view mirrors in walls and gear sticks as coat hangers. Jam Designs, the company commissioned by Sir Alex to renovate the room told the Sun that the Manchester United top honcho could be starting a new trend.

A presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo denies he committed war crimes, and says allegations of cannibalism are being used to slur his name.

Jean-Pierre Bemba is a leading candidate among 32 contenders who will be on the ballot in Sunday's historic elections. He had been named vice-president of the D.R. Congo under a peace deal that ended a war that lasted from 1998-2003.

A Japanese research team is planning to run a campaign on environmental awareness by entering a racecar that runs on cooking oil, used to fry tempura, in the Dakar rally. Hidefumi Onaka, a lecturer at the Osaka Sangyo University, said Toyota's Land Cruiser 100 would be the first racecar to run on bio-diesel in the prestigious sporting event.

Onaka told the Canadian Press, "We want to show what tempura oil can achieve, as a way to raise environmental awareness...We're not doing it just for fun, so we decided to enter an internationally acclaimed event and appeal to the world."

On July 11, Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corp. gave President George W. Bush a pair of red, white and blue patriotic wingtips when he visited their factory in Port Washington.

However, the company is now saying that they will not duplicate the shoes for anyone else.

Sex workers in Vegas are advocating respect for their profession in Sin City. Prostitutes demonstrated on the steps of the courthouse in downtown Las Vegas. Hookers and strippers demanded more legal protection in an effort to decriminalize the "world's oldest profession."

Thirty-six-year-old ex-Army Reservist, Starchild, stood in solidarity with the rallying sex workers in Las Vegas. He emphatically claimed his seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.