Officials in the state of Bihar have created a novel idea to both rehabilitate beggars and help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS: pay beggars to sing songs and enact plays to raise awareness of the deadly virus. They want to train many of the estimated 100,000 homeless in the state to put on street plays about AIDS and to sing songs about it in trains and buses and on the sides of busy roads.

A Romanian train conductor is now in hot water and could face disciplinary action after he was found to have stopped his train so he could have a cigarette break. A report by the newspaper Evenimentul Zilei, says the driver stopped the train in the middle of the country and encouraged some passengers to get off the train. The Romanian government has recently banned smoking on trains.

A runner plans to participate in one marathon per day for 50 consecutive days. Dean Karnazes says he's not crazy for committing to run a total of 1,310 miles in less than two months. The 43-year-old is one of the world's best ultramarathoners. He once ran 350 miles without stopping. He also ran a marathon to the South Pole, and ran across the California desert during the summer.

A five-year-old boy in Teighmouth, Devon in England, wanting a real-life "Thomas the Tank" adventure, took a 60-mile train ride to the shock of his parents. It was reported that the boy, identified as Ben Ford, was walking down the road near his home in Teignmouth, Devon ahead of his parents, when he suddenly disappeared.

New Delhi, India (AHN)-In an effort to keep monkeys out of the New Delhi subways, authorities have called in one of the few animals known to scare the creatures - a fierce-looking primate called the langur. The Hindustan Times reports that the decision to hire a langurwallah - a man who trains and controls the langurs - came after a monkey got into a metro car in June.