A Milan teacher was fired from her job after she allegedly used scissors to cut the tongue of a talkative 7-year-old pupil to silence him. As she held a pair of scissors in her hand, the 22-year-old teacher apparently told a boy to "Stick out your tongue so I can cut it. That way you'll stop talking!" She then slashed his tongue so badly that he needed five stitches to close the wound, the Il Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. The child's family, who hail from North Africa have filed suit against the teacher, who has been suspended after last week's incident.

A fireman rescued a cooked hamster from a fiery oven after a woman placed the animal's cage on their cooker and switched it on by mistake. The pet hamster, called Christmas, was brought back to life in a miracle-like situation when his cage burst into flames. When firefighters arrived, Christmas was lying unconscious on his back with his severely burnt legs in the air and tongue hanging out. The firefighter acted promptly and gave Christmas a blast of oxygen and a few sips of the blackcurrant drink, Ribena.

A British man got the surprise of his life when he discovered a Polish immigrant sleeping beside him in his bed instead of his wife. Graham Handley from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire in England told the police that he did not noticed his wife Linda, getting out off the bed to sleep with their eight-year-old son Adam, in another room.

Atlanta, GA (AHN)-A mother accused of cutting off part of her son's tongue with hot scissors avoided a 5-year prison sentence and was sentenced, instead, to 10 years probation. But before going on probation, 33-year-old Samantha J. Davis will serve 60 to 180 days in a detention center.

A Japanese man who was left behind in land that was given to the Soviet Union following World War II, has returned to his homeland. Yoshiteru Nakagawa, now 79 years old, was returned to Japan for the first time in 67 years.