Iran has woven the world's largest carpet which is the size of a soccer field, the AFP reported on Tuesday.

The AFP reported that the wool carpet measures 5,626 square meters (60,546 square feet). The United Arab Emirates ordered it for $5.8 million to be used in a mosque in its capital Abu Dhabi named after UAE founder and president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan.

Firefighters responding to a call for electrical fire in the garage of a Roseville neighborhood on Thursday discovered what might be a part of an extensive marijuana growing operation. The Roseville Fire department was reported of the small fire coming from the electrical panel on the side of the house by neighbors who thought the house was unoccupied.

According to police, fire crews presented the need to go inside the house as part of routine check for such fires, and as they entered the house they found sophisticated marijuana growing system, including lighting, irrigation lines, timers and a bypassed electrical system which apparently caught fire.

Police in Napier, New Zealand were amused when a middle-aged woman called up crying to report a theft of cannabis plants she had been growing in buckets at her home.

The 45-year-old woman's main grudge was that the plant theft was the fourth from her property in North Island in the past four years. She was emotional and in tears when police reached her home.

In a continent suffering from a massive AIDS epidemic, the president of the small West African nation of Gambia is taking a more non-conventional approach to tackling the disease.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, a 41-year old former army colonel seized control of his country in a 1994 coup, says his treatment is effective in combating the deadly AIDS virus.

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.