A Philadelphia man got an unpleasant surprise at his dining table when he found out something unusual in his plate full of green beans. Upon looking closely, Earl Hartman said he was shocked to discover the inch-long head on his plate Wednesday night, resting between a chicken breast and buttered noodles.

WCAU-TV quotes Hartman as saying, "When I sat down, I noticed something didn't look right. It didn't look like a green bean."

A Pakistani court has sent a couple to jail for entering into wedlock because the "husband" is a woman. The union was ruled a "same sex marriage," which is a criminal offense in Pakistan. Judge Khwaja Mohammad Sharif at Lahore High Court said in his ruling Tuesday, "It's an illegal and un-Islamic marriage which is not sustainable under the law."

The couple, Shamail Raj and Shehzina Tariq, married last September. However, the bride's father filed a case against the husband suspecting him of being a woman and lead to the arrest of the couple last Saturday.

Thailand on Friday holds the tenth annual Miss Tiffany Universe pageant. The beauty contest which brings on stage the most beautiful transvestites from all over the nation, is one of the country's most watched event with millions of viewers.

Started as a transsexual cabaret in Pattaya, a resort town about 68 miles southeast of Bangkok, the show has evolved into a full fledged national competition, whose winner like any traditional beauty contest is beset with loads of prizes and contracts with advertising firms.

Advocates of breast-feeding in the Philippines will try anew to break their own record set last year, by organizing the biggest simultaneous breast-feeding event on Wednesday.

The Children for Breast-feeding, with its partner, Nurturers of the Earth, has invited mothers to participate in a simultaneous breast-feeding program in at least 40,000 day-care centers all over the Philippines.