Not about to run out of ideas, beverage company Jones Soda Co. is giving a new twist to ham this Christmas season - it's in liquid form. The Seattle-based firm launches Sunday is holiday-themed limited-edition flavored soda packs and ham-flavor soda is included in the outrageous roster this year.

After more than 70 years of separation, an 88-year-old British woman is looking forward to a reunion with her younger brother. Olive Winstone of Penarth last saw her brother Sydney Adler when she left home Worcestershire at age 16 in pursuit of a job in an ammunition factory near Haverford west.

A Malaysian witch doctor was detained by local police for questioning about the alleged aliens he buried in the neighborhood cemetery. The man was freed after he explained that banana tree trunks, not aliens, had been buried in a ceremony for "medicinal purposes," district police chief Haliludin Rahim told the press. Apparently the misunderstanding occurred after the gravediggers told some people that they were burying aliens and the rumor then spread out of control.

An 11-year-old Texas boy successfully led police to the arrest of a man suspected of large-scale theft. The little detective, identified only as Simeon, was waiting with younger siblings in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree store in Universal City when the incident tool place. The San Antonio Express-News reported that Simeon spotted a man getting into and out of a pickup, while smashing a window on a Nissan Xterra and stealing items from the car.

Indian police are on a monkey hunt in northern India after a South Korean tourist accused a monkey of stealing his reading glasses. According to Investigating Case Officer Govind Singh, Kim Dang Hoon has already filed a formal complaint stating that the primate intruded into his room.