The 2006 update of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary adds mouse potatoes, googling and himbo, among 100 new words. The mouse potato is defined as someone who spends as much time on the computer as a coach potato does on the sofa.

More than 50 public toilet cleaners in Singapore are folding their sleeves to take up an intensive 3-day course that will upgrade their status and provide them with extra skills required to clean the city's toilets. The training is part of a nationwide sanitation campaign that seeks to give the city a facelift.

High schoolers are using a ring tone on their mobiles to receive a text message without the teacher even knowing. The ring tone that can be downloaded from the internet is too high pitched for the adults to hear it.

Australian researchers are in search of country's ugliest sheep so that they could identify the genes that produce high quality wool. Scientists hope that "through the latest DNA-based technology, it's the ugly sheep that will help us make quantum leaps to advance the qualities of Australian merino wool to make it more stretchy, less scratchy, shinier and easier to spin," said Paul Hynd, a researcher from the University of Adelaide.

Baby boomers are trading homes for a life on the road aboard their recreational vehicles (RV). A typical RV owner nowadays has money, a sense of wanderlust and enough technology to run an office or stay in touch with family while on the road, Rachel Parsons, spokeswoman for the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association told the AP.