The strange exorcism case of Madam Amutha Valli, part-time tutor, former national athlete, will resume six more weeks of hearings in April after a 12-day marathon trial that ended Friday and has gripped Singapore's imagination for over a week. Valli, 51, is seeking compensation from two Redemptorist priests and six church members for an alleged exorcism ritual she claims was forced on her at the Novena church in 2004.

A Malaysian official on Monday warned taxi drivers in the capital Kuala Lumpur to dress properly. Otherwise, drivers caught not wearing the proper attire, will be fined heavily. Taxi drivers in the city are required to wear only white shirts which should be tucked. They are banned from wearing any other color while driving their cabs.

A taxi cab was tasked to keep a human heart for few hours at its dispatch office after an airline refused to keep it overnight at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. The human heart, which was en route to a tissue processing company in Atlanta, was denied delivery by officials from Aeropoint Delivery Solutions of Marietta, Georgia. The cab company, however, said that it will keep the heart as the ice in the packaging to keep it intact.

In a yet another effort to upgrade the city's image before the 2008 Olympic Games, authorities in Beijing have barred women cabbies to not to dye their hair red and their male counterparts from growing their hair long. The bans on the city's taxi drivers are a part wider effort by the authorities who perceive the Olympic Games as an opportunity to display splendid Chinese culture and its residents' positive attitudes. In the recent effort, authorities have listed out as many as 12 not-to-do's for the city's cabbies. These include: greeting passengers without politeness, avoid smoking, spitting, wearing heavy and jewelry and brushing teeth after eating garlic among others.

A female passenger from Beverly Hills skipped out on a taxi fare of $8,200, prompting the driver to approach court. The meter in the taxi of Levon Mikayelyan hit the unbelievable fare after it was hired to drive 2,600 miles from Beverly Hills to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. However, the passenger's family paid him only a measly $800 when he reached their destination.