Damon Mootoo heard so many horror stories about New York that he refused to ask for directions when he got lost. The man, who was new to the city, remained lost for five days.

Mootoo, 32, was shivering on a sidewalk begging for water when Michael Bharath took notice. He made Mootoo a sandwich and drove him back to his brother's house in South Jamaica, Queens where he was staying.

A U.S. military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail threw light on the softer side of the person deemed responsible for taking the lives of hundreds of people. The nurse said Hussein actually saved bread crusts to feed birds and was a very cooperative person.

Master Sgt. Robert Ellis cared for the disgraced leader from January 2004 until August 2005 at Camp Cropper. Ellis said Hussein also watered weeds in a jail garden and drank coffee while smoking cigars to keep his blood pressure down.

Contradicting his earlier remarks in 2003, President George W Bush has recently admitted to reading newspapers. In 2003, the president declared that he did not read newspapers and just "glanced" at them.

According to New York Times, the President has however casually admitted last week that he had seen something in the paper that very day.

A 40-year-old woman from Bangkok, Thailand has authored a comic book on the life of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra. The deposed leader is depicted as a hero with an unfinished mission to help the poor.

Posatorn Butr-anan said the bloodless coup in September which ousted Thaksin, prompted her to write the book.

Agbar the dog fell from a second-story window while on the hunt for a robbery suspect, but was still able to catch him. The Gilford police were looking for a man who reportedly robbed a car driver at knifepoint Saturday night.

According to police, Michael Mount, 30, pulled a knife on the driver of a car in which he was a passenger, forced her off the road and stole her purse.