Manchester United and Real Madrid soccer players get sold for millions of dollars, often enough to run a small country.

But things are a little different in Romania, where star players are being swapped for utilities to run their small country.

A high school principal was suspended from his job for six days after giving a student a wedgie. The school board held a meeting Monday and decided to let him return to school, which he did on Tuesday.

Superintendent Hannibal Anderson said Principal Eric Messerili's behavior warranted "substantial disciplinary action" but not termination.

A Chinese man is suing the Beijing trade bureau for denying him a permit to sell bags of "World Cup air." The man had a plan to sell air from the World Cup and let soccer fans breathe in the air while watching the game.

Li Jie, an entrepreneur, also had plans to sell "2008 Olympic Air." The price would have been about 50 yuan or $6.30. The Chaoyang Industry and Commerce Bureau rejected his application, saying air from special places was not classified as "an industrial category."

On Thursday, the researchers at King's College London said that the length of a girl's ring finger could determine her future sporting potential.

The findings, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, show that women with ring fingers longer than their index fingers are good at running and associated sports such as soccer and tennis which involves running.