Greetings cards written by Britain's late Princess Diana have sold for $3,800. The two cards - which belonged to former royal chef Mervyn Wycherley who worked for the royal family for 23 years - were expecting to fetch around $1,500 but a bidding war broke out when they went on sale at auction house Reeman Dansie in Colchester, Essex on Monday.

Auctioneer James Grinter said: "It's a very buoyant market, it has not been affected at all by the credit crunch. People would rather invest their money into something they can keep in their home and enjoy and which will hopefully rise in value."

Thailand will spend $2.9 million to $14.6 million to build a firewall which will monitor and block Websites that insult the Royal Family.

Thai Communications Minister Mun Patanotai said the 100 to 500-million baht firewall was decided after the ministry got more than 1,000 complaints about portals that are considered offensive to the royal family. But he declined to identify the Webpages.

An Illinois woman was arrested for bartending naked at an Alton pub.

Jamie Day had put on a shirt by the time police arrived, but male customers said she had been totally nude and "performing" while handing out drinks at the Pub Room earlier, KMOX news reports.

The Eustis Police Department has fired one of its officers who tasered a teenager for fun during a birthday party he hosted last month.

Dan Nesmith, 22, lost his job after a video of him demonstrating his taser on the back of 15-year-old Taylor Davis surfaced and a subsequent check of the officer's taser gun showed it was fired on the day of the party. The taser gun is equipped with memory that indicates the date when it was fired.

German police responding to a complaint about a noisy party after midnight knocked on the door only to have the noisy guests burst into applause after opening the door and seeing the officers there.

Applauding the police were the birthday girl, who had just turned 30, and her female guests who, it turned out, had all mistakenly thought the police officers were a surprise birthday gift - male strippers in costume.