A tabloid is making good on an offensive article that labeled a police officer who suffered disfiguring burns in a crash while on duty as "ugly."

American Media Inc., owner of the Weekly World News, ran a list of the ''top 10 ugliest people'' in its Feb. 7 issue featuring a post-surgery photo of the disfigured officer and his wife.

A group of British potato farmers are waging war on the world's slackers and their coined title, "couch potato."

The farmers claim the term's position in the dictionary inadvertantly gives potatoes a bad name.

According to a Reuters report, people who solicit prostitutes in Oakland, California, could find their faces plastered on billboards under a new shaming program - civil rights groups call the program bad public policy.

The city started putting up billboards on Wednesday showing men arrested for soliciting sex. Other signs invite prostitutes to quit by calling a help line.

Yukon, the 16-year-old polar bear, had a tooth pulled Thursday at The Seneca Park Zoo.

Veterinarians used a hammer and chisel to remove an infected tooth they believe has given the bear a bad case of bad breath.

Siblings, Arvydas Gaiciunas, 36, and his sister, Diana Gaiciunaite, 29, emerged from inside a huge 12 ton ice cube today after 63 hours and 31 minutes on ice. The two wore only t-shirts and sweatpants for the entire spectacle. They shattered David Blaine's 2002 effort when he spent nearly 62 hours inside a block of ice. Doctors in the Baltic resort of Palanga said the condition of the siblings was "not bad". They were then taken to a local hospital for observation. "They never did this before but they have trained every day and believe they can do it," their proud father said in a statement to the local media.