A middle school coach was arrested and charged for leading a group of players into manipulating Christmas displays to depict images of a pornographic nature.

John Hayes, 46, while driving around in his pickup truck with middle school varsity football team at the back, allegedly placed a homeowner's reindeer displays in sexual positions. The group also destroyed several Christmas decorations they came across.

Around fifty Christmas shoppers dreaming of spending a shopping spree Lille, France ended up some 100 miles off from their destination after blunder in satellite navigation send their bus to another Lille in Belgium instead.

"It was ridiculous," one passenger described the error. "The coach driver obviously had two Lilles to choose from on his sat-nav and he picked the wrong one.

For those who want to watch the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Chinese officials have a new "cheering coach." Citizens in China's capital are now practicing how to act and react during the summer games.

Some 200 factory workers from Beijing's eastern towns were gathered for a practice cheer session at the national stadium on Monday in the latest lecture on the subject. Factory manager Lu Xiaoping told AFP: "Because of this program, I also think that China's spectators will behave better."

Six cheerleaders of a college football team have been suspended from school after expressing their message to fans by exposing their panties during a game.

The school's vice Principal Ken Goeken personally issued the order suspending the girls for two days for deliberately disobeying their coach and going ahead with their 'special number especially designed for the last day of the football season.

Saying he just wants to help her prepare to achieve her dream of someday swimming across the English Channel, a father tied his daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours Tuesday.

In an interview, Huang Daosheng said her daughter, Huang Li, 10, swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling with the current.