Swedish researchers said that an extra hour of sleep may reduce the likelihood of having a heart attack as most countries, including the United States, shift from daylight saving time to normal standard times.

The extra hour of sleep brought about by shifting of the clocks back an hour may prevent the risk of a heart attack, compared with the heart attack risks during the first week of DST's implementation in spring, which were higher.

German researchers have found that smelling good stuff like flowers and fragrance gives you pleasant emotions in your dreams.

Researchers from the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany analyzed the sleep of 15 female volunteers for 30 nights. The scientists exposed them to high doses of smelly air for 10 seconds before rousing them out of sleep one minute later.

A 31-year-old woman got the shock of her life when she found a meter-long python under her bed.

Canadian Press reported that the snake, a non-venomous python, somehow got into the basement of her apartment.

While there was an unexpected uptick in the February sales of existing homes at 2.9 percent, home foreclosure filings across the U.S. grew by 60 percent and bank seizures more than doubled for the second month of the year. Aside from Americans struggling with the economy, the subprime crisis also hit a vulnerable sector who could do nothing about losing their roof, except whimper.

Homeowners and their pets are being separated by escalating incidents of home foreclosures across America. According to USA Today, thousands of pets are being sent to animal shelters although no exact figures are available due to the lack of accounting standards for recording pets affected by foreclosures.

Danes are up in arms over the manner in which Swedish home furnishing manufacturer IKEA is naming its products. The Danes resent the naming of its lower-end products like doormats and carpets after Danish towns, while christening high-end products after Swedish names.

The Danish resentment arose out of an analysis by two Danish academics who performed a thorough analysis into IKEA's naming system. Klaus Kjoller of the University of Copenhagen told a Danish newspaper, "Doormats and runners, as well as inexpensive wall-to-wall carpeting are third-class, if not seventh-class, items when it comes to home furnishings."