Japanese Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi has set a new world record in speed eating. At the Boston lobster roll eating challenge, Kobayashi was able to devour 41 rolls in 10 minutes, smashing the previous record of 22 rolls.

A tsunami warning was mistakenly sent to TV and radio stations throughout Alaska. The National Weather Service now says there's no danger of a tsunami anywhere. The erroneous message went out directly from the weather service to Alaska broadcasters. It contained the computer ''header'' that a tsunami warning would carry. But it didn't have any other information in it. And if it had been a real warning, there would have been some actual text that outlined which areas of the state were covered by the warning.

A woman decided to honor the more than 216,000 people who died in last year's tsunami by building a toothpick memorial. "I remember thinking these people are going to become statistics, and I just felt I needed to see something other than a number in a newspaper article," says Nancy Lawson, 56, of Lawrence, Kansas.

Time Magazine has named its Persons of the Year and the three people on this year's cover are honored for being good Samaritans. The magazine says the trio is changing the way people feel about charity. Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" along with Irish rocker Bono for making a difference in different ways. Managing Editor James Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria in Africa, HIV and AIDS and the grinding poverty that kills 8 million people a year. Time also named former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton as "Partners of the Year" for their humanitarian efforts after the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, and the unlikely friendship that developed from that work.

A hoaxer has been found guilty of wasting police time after claiming he lost a daughter in the Asian tsunami, according to BBC news. Philip Bosson, 39, told officers his former wife called him to say their daughter Kayleigh had been killed.