Bedroom activities are beyond the reach of legislation, at least for now in Germany. The German Parliament learned that lesson after heavy criticism led it to shelf a bill criminalizing ordinary sexual activities between teenagers. The bill proposes lowering the age to 14 from the current 18 which will make a German youth legally liable for a sexual crime. Current national laws on sexual abuse of minors requires the perpetrator to be over 18 and the victim under 16. A new European Union guideline increases the victim's age limit to up to 17, while the German bill makes the perpetrator liable even if he is below 18.

The Board of Registration in Medicine, which is the governing authority issuing licenses to Massachusetts doctors, has reportedly suspended a Boston anesthesiologist from the practice of medicine for dozing off during an operation. In December 2005, Thomas Ho admitted inhaling anesthetic gas while on lunch break on another occasion. The Board also added that following month Ho had taken a prescription drug that caused him to doze off. When he fell asleep he was the only anesthesiologist in the operating room at Children's Hospital Boston.

The producers of an off-Broadway show are giving away free tickets to anyone who can prove their purity. "My First Time" opens July 28 and as a promotional stunt producer Ken Davenport, 34, is letting virgins in for free.

A life-sized Homer Simpson statue has been recovered and returned to the movie theater from which it was stolen, located in a popular suburban shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. "This case has been solved," Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia's central Petaling Jaya district, told the Associated Press. The culprits, tracked down by local police, were allegedly just overzealous fans of "The Simpsons. "

A street performer dressed as Chewbacca was arrested Thursday after butting a tour guide operator in the head in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, according to police. The tour guide said the man in the Chewbacca costume exploded after he asked him to stop bothering two Japanese tourists. The man in the costume, 44-year-old Frederick Evan Young, is one of many street performers who flock to Grauman's Chinese Theater to entertain tourists. Last year the city passed an ordinance to prevent incidents like the one Young is involved in after tourists complained performers would get aggressive and abusive if they didn't pay for pictures.