Litter bins are mysteriously vanishing from the northern village of Kirk Sandalls in London and the council's efforts to replace them have all gone in vain. Residents of this small village say that at least 30 of the village's large metallic litter bins have gone missing over the past year.

Henry County, GA (AHN)-After posting comments about his teacher on the popular Web site, MySpace. com, a Henry County high school student is facing criminal charges.

Michael Maxwell, a teacher of industrial technology at Central High School, has apologized for asking 25-30 students from ninth through 12th grades, to write an imaginary tale about their possible murder victim and method of murder. The April 21 assignment, which Maxwell said was not a formal task, came to the attention of administrators when a parent of one of the students filed a complaint with the school Principal Barton Albright.

Kelly Romenesko, a French teacher at two Roman Catholic schools in Appleton, was fired when she and her husband decided to start a family using in vitro fertilization. The Catholic School system claimed that Romenesko violated a provision of her employment contract saying a teacher has to act in accordance with Catholic doctrine which holds IVF as morally wrong as it replaces the "natural" conjugal union between husband and wife and often results in destruction of embryos.

A teacher at the University of Southern California (USC) is getting some unwanted attention after posting topless pictures of herself online. According to feminist theory lecturer, Diana Blaine, students wanted "more of me after our class time has ended. "