Two thousand people climbed the 2,109 steps of the Sears Tower in Chicago, the country's tallest building, to raise money for cancer research Sunday.

The climbers came out on Sunday, Nov. 9 to take part in the seventh annual Go Vertical Chicago event.

A tourist left behind on a dive trip swam all night, covering nearly 10 kilometers through shark-infested water before reaching land in Taveuni, Fiji Monday.

Thomas Holz, 40, of Berlin, Germany, was out a scuba diving trip with three other tourists at Rainbow Reef, near Viani Bay in Vanua Levu, according to the local Fiji Times newspaper.

While billions of dollars are being talked about as U.S. and European banks collapse under the pressure of the global credit crunch, Zimbabwe is also dealing with stratospheric numbers few calculator screens could accommodate in full.

The African nation's inflation rate again broke another world record as it hit 231 million percent in July, surpassing another global record made by Zimbabwe in June at 11.2 million percent.

A German farmer who lost his two arms in an accident six years ago went public Wednesday with two new arms transplanted to him in the first surgery of its kind.

Karl Merk, 54, showed his arms, which were supported by a special corset attached to his shoulders, at the teaching hospital of the Technical University here. He was with the doctors who performed the 15-hour transplant from July 25 to 26.

Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich is awaiting the delivery of a yacht he bought for $354 million- reportedly the world's largest private yacht capable of fending off pirates.

The 500-foot Eclipse, about two-thirds the size of the German World War II battleship Bismarck, is equipped with a missile detector and radar equipment, and has bullet-proof windows and armor plating to protect the 41 year old Abramovich from pirates.