Los Angeles County is known for having the stinkiest sludge in America. Virginia Tech environmental engineer John Novak says the sludge from that county in California has the "worst odor of any I have ever tested."

"This county can haul its sludge hundreds of miles into the desert, and it still gets complaints," Novak said, according to a press release by Newswise.

Dogs have been known as man's best friends for decades, and Jamie Hanson's 13-year-old dog, Jesse, has lived up to it. A specially trained golden retriever-German shepherd mix, Jesse, not only rescued her owner from fire but also tried to save the fellow pet, a cat, before dying of asphyxiation.

Hanson, who had lost her leg in a car accident three years ago, was sitting in the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch and jumped onto a table, tipping a candle on it thereby lighting the artificial plants on fire.

Dogs have been known as man's best friends for decades, and Jamie Hanson's 13-year-old dog, Jesse, has lived up to it. A specially trained golden retriever-German shepherd mix, Jesse, not only rescued her owner from fire but also tried to save the fellow pet, a cat, before dying of asphyxiation.

Hanson, who had lost her leg in a car accident three years ago, was sitting in the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch and jumped onto a table, tipping a candle on it thereby lighting the artificial plants on fire.

According to a top Canadian military general, Taliban forces in Afghanistan utilize forests of ten-foot tall marijuana plants to evade Canadian troops. The plants provide a nearly impenetrable barrier, and dense camouflage, for Taliban militias, and render thermal devices for detecting movement obsolete.

Marijuana plants, according to General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, absorb energy and heat, which allows Taliban forces to evade thermal detecting devices used by Canadian forces. "It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," the general remarked at a press conference in Ottawa.

A Cuban man, who claims to be 126 years old, making him the world's oldest person, has died Thursday at a hospital.

Benito Martinez claims to have been born in Haiti in 1880 although this was never proven.