A group of award-winning Czech artists are facing prison terms for hacking into a TV weather broadcast to air footage of a nuclear explosion. All six members of the artist group, Ztohoven have been named in the complaint filed by Czech Television after the group hacked their Panoram program last June and interrupted their airing of peaceful scenes of the local countryside by video clips to make it appear as if a nuclear bomb had been blasted.

A man from Florida has bitten more than what he chewed from a $10 plate of steamed clams he and his wife ordered at a beach bar. He found from the dish a rare purple pearl that is probably worth thousands. George Brock and his wife Leslie turned out to be the lucky diners at Dave's Last Resort & Raw Bar on Friday. The couple from Royal Palm Beach ordered steamed clams containing the gem.

A 7-year old boy announced his plans to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, after watching a news feature of a man who attempted to do the same, but failed. With his gear gathered, he is setting to scale the mountain for approximately five months, with the help of his father. Keats Boyd insisted on his aim, wanting to be "the youngest climber to ever reach the summit. "

An incident caught on a cell phone camera might lead the Caddo School Board to ban cell phone use at schools during the academic day from 7 a. m. until school ends. The idea was born when a student with a cell phone camera took photos of a physical fight between another student and the Huntington High School Principal Jerry Davis. According to The Shreveport Times, the cell phone images caught the media's attention and school board officials had to put Davis on paid administrative leave. KSLA TV 12 reports that Davis was accused of choking the student. In explaining that she wasn't really banning cell phones from schools, School Board Members Dottie Bell said that the student who used his cell phone to photograph the incident highlighted the fact that students are misusing their cell phones during school time. "Students are misusing the phone. They are texting test answers, they are taking pictures while changing clothes, and sending them to You Tube," Bell said. But the Caddo Federation of Teachers objects to banning students from using cell phones during school hours. They say that it would require checking the students. Anyway, both teachers and parents say they favor students having the security of cell phones to communicate in light of the massacres at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech. But school board members say that banning cell phone use would be in line with existing school policy that bans use of electronic devices during school hours without permission from the principal, The Shreveport Times reports. If the student with the cell phone camera had been following that rule, it is doubtful that Davis would be on leave now, because it can be assumed that he wouldn't have given a student permission to photograph him while he was choking another student.

The courtroom battle between the top two Filipino TV networks escalated on Thursday as one channel obtained a judge's order stopping a media research firm from surveying viewers and another channel suing the other for libel. A court in Quezon City ordered AGB Nielsen Media Research Philippines, Inc. to stop gathering and releasing data on nationwide TV ratings for 20 days. ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. sought the order in a suit filed against AGB Nielsen last week.