A Japanese plane landed on the wrong runway where another plane was to take off in Osaka, Japan while a Taiwanese plane with a faulty speedometer returned to an airport in the country's southern island of Kyushu 30 minutes after takeoff. The two near-accidents did not cause any harm, but authorities are investigating the separate incidents and reviewing airport safety procedures. According to Japan Today, miscommunication between the pilot and air traffic controllers caused the All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 448 with 165 passengers to land on a 3,000-meter runway at Itami Airport in Osaka. At the same time, a Japan Airlines (JAL) Corp. McDonnell Douglas MD-87 passanger plane was to take off from the runway where the ANA plane was landing. But the pilot of the JAL Flight 2441 with 147 passengers and crew saw the incoming ANA plane and decided not to fly.

A group of German builders have obtained funds to begin constructing a pyramid that will serve as a private memorial for "those of all nationalities and religions. " A group, led by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, will build a new pyramid about 10 times as large as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and will be "the largest structure our civilization has ever built. "

We arrived in the town of Sta. Ana in Cagayan Valley, the northernmost tip town in the Philippines at 3 a. m. in the morning. The first thing we noticed was the eerie sound of the place, or better yet, the lack of any sound of life. There were no lamp post and all we saw was darkness. The only light available was emanating from the vehicle we were using. We drove for another half an hour and still all we saw was darkness, we didn't see any houses or any other living soul. For someone who has lived in the city all his life, the environment in Sta. Ana was a strange one to me. I came from the capital where the city never sleeps and that has been the case even in some provinces I have visited, this is the only town I have been to where all I heard was the sound of silence even at that hour of the morning.

The Shanghai Daily reported on Monday that an 87-year-old man woke up during his own funeral service, shocking his mourners. The family and friends were hours into a Buddhist prayer service in Chiayi County, Taiwan, when the "deceased" began breathing heavily.

Taiwanese cable news channels have been replaying footage of a bulky orangutan that escaped from his cage at a Taiwan zoo and terrified restaurant diners by overturning picnic tables. The animal was from the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung where a crocodile recently bit off a veterinarian's arm. The orangutan pushed his way out of his cage before moving in a nearby restaurant courtyard.