Sixty-three-year-old French cook Christian Falco grilled a 1,213 pound camel for 15 hours at a seaside Moroccan town south of Rabat, to earn a spot in the Guinness Book for the world's largest barbecue.

Falco said he did the feat to revive a tradition centuries ago when Moroccan kings offered a roast camel for the people.

A 33-years-old mayor of a Siberian oil town in Russia has ordered his officials to refrain from uttering expressions such as "I don't know," "I can't," and "Look for another job."

Oksana Shestakova spokeswoman for Megion Mayor Alexander Kuzmin said the local chief executive banned these negative phrases and 25 others, to make his administration serve people with more integrity and efficiency.

In a bid to get rid of the growing number of Canada geese in the city park and the nuisance caused by the birds' droppings, officials in Monterey, California have launched an annual campaign which will call on residents to coat the eggs with vegetable oil, suffocating the embryo inside.

The campaign is a part of the 5-year-old federal order aimed at ending the nesting which causes damage and contaminates the parks and private land.

Too lazy to get up from bed in the morning to make yourself a coffee? Now don't bother to do that as scientists have now invented Shower Shock, the world's first caffeinated soap that claims it will give you the same kind of kick as your morning cup of coffee.

This vegetable-based glycerin soap from Think Geek claims to release caffeine that is absorbed into your body and provides the same hit as a couple of cups of coffee. The users blood pressure and pulse rate will increase, making his brain feel more alert and awake.

A careless error of a computer technician reformatting a disc drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue wiped out data containing $38 billion of state funds. With just one stroke on the computer keyboard, the computer technician, doing routine maintenance work, deleted information for applicants on the oil-funded account, one of Alaska residents biggest perks.

Worst, the technician also mistakenly reformatted the back-up drive.