Sandi Sabloff had been suffering from chronic kidney failure for 20 years. But thanks to kidney donor, 23-year old Australian Ashwyn Falkingham, a member of the Jesus Christians group, more years will be added to Sabloff's life after a successful transplant at the Paraskevaidion Surgical Transplant Centre in Nicosia, Cyprus. Sabloff and Falkingham are reported to be recovering well.

A 53-year-old man was bound, gagged and kidnapped after his attackers hijacked his transport truck in Toronto early Thursday morning. He was then forced into an Acura that was driven to a parking lot near highway 401 in Guelph. The victim was left tied up in the front seat of the car.

The 9-1-1 dispatcher in Canada was surprised to receive a call from a man in north of Toronto informing him about two elephants wandering through his neighbourhood early Thursday morning. It was later found that the massive giants, named Bunny and Suzy, had escaped from a circus at about 3 a. m. in Newmarket, a town of 75,000 people near Toronto. The pachyderms, who perform at the Ray Twinney Complex with the Garden Bros. Circus, were strolling around freely munching on trees, shrubs and flowers.

A 7-year-old boy from Michigan has reportedly set an official world record recently by wrapping together enough plastic wrap to create a 281. 5-pound ball. It took eight months for the young Jake Lonsway to create this giant ball. When the official weigh-in took place last week in St. Charles, Michigan, the plastic wrap ball took the record by 31. 5 pounds.

A cat survived a two-hour flight to Toronto and a one-hour car ride inside its owner's suitcase, even though security at St. John Airport had scanned the bag before boarding. The cat, named Ginger, had apparently slipped into owner Mary Martell's suitcase while she was packing and wasn't noticed until Martell got to her Niagara-on-the-Lake hotel.