While billions of dollars are being talked about as U.S. and European banks collapse under the pressure of the global credit crunch, Zimbabwe is also dealing with stratospheric numbers few calculator screens could accommodate in full.

The African nation's inflation rate again broke another world record as it hit 231 million percent in July, surpassing another global record made by Zimbabwe in June at 11.2 million percent.

Professional divers have located the wreck of the sunken 19th century steamship SS Portland 460 feet deep in Massachusetts' Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and found artifacts but no human remains.

Five divers led by Bob Foster were the first to see the shipwreck nearly 20 years after it was discovered by underwater explorers Arnold Carr and John Fish. At the time, the wreck was not confirmed as that of the Portland, which sunk amid a storm in 1898 while sailing from Boston to Portland, Maine.

An 18-year-old man is accused of plotting his mother's death with three others so he could have access to her money to buy his girlfriend breast implants.

According to the Denver Channel, Nikita Weis hired two young men for a total of $7,000 to kill his mother and dispose of her body. However, when the victim, Hyun Weis, was attacked Thursday in her home with a small souvenir baseball bat, she was able to escape after using the panic button on her key chain to set off her car alarm, causing the assailant to flee.

An 18-year-old man is accused of plotting his mother's death with three others so he could have access to her money to buy his girlfriend breast implants.

According to the Denver Channel, Nikita Weis hired two young men for a total of $7,000 to kill his mother and dispose of her body. However, when the victim, Hyun Weis, was attacked Thursday in her home with a small souvenir baseball bat, she was able to escape after using the panic button on her key chain to set off her car alarm, causing the assailant to flee.

A court in Wisconsin has sentenced a man to six years behind bars for stealing a toddler's piggy bank containing $20.

The court in Sheboygan, Wisconsin sent four-time convicted burglar Ryan Mueller to prison for six years on the charge of felony burglary as a repeat offender.