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.

The mayor of the western town of Lupeni in Romania is offering the top player of his second division football team in exchange for a gas pipeline, ananova.com reports.

The report said that mayor Cornel Rasmerita, who is also the head of the Minerul football team disclosed that he is willing to sell his key goalkeeper Christian Belgradean to first division team Jiul for something his town needs.

The search for the source of a leaky water pipe led to the discovery of a hidden room at a former hotel in West Virginia that might have been shut for years. The underground room is about 10 feet wide, 18-20 feet long and about 7 feet in height, with wooden cabinets lining one wall and a vintage toilet behind a partition.

The room was discovered by a maintenance worker who was knocking down a wall to locate the faulty pipes in the decades old building.

It's going to be a white Christmas in Baguio City, the summer capital of the Philippines, as some businessmen from South Korea who have made the city their second home, have revealed plans of returning the favor by bringing snow during the holiday season.

Acting city Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr said some Korean entrepreneurs have pledged to invest in snow-blowing machines that would be deployed atop buildings to produce snowflakes that would fall on downtown Baguio.

A woman who was struck by lightning suffered severe burning to her anus as it entered through her mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was at home cleaning her teeth when lightning hit the building.