A 26-year-old man who lives in Oregon has created what he believes to be the heaviest rubber-band ball ever. Steve Milton's ball weighs 3,300 pounds and stands nearly five feet tall. It currently takes up half his garage, and Milton says he wants to put at least 1,000 more pounds on it. Milton is keeping the public posted on the ball's ever-growing size on his MySpace page. He's also uploaded videos of the ball crushing stuff. One video shows a forklift dropping it on an old van.

An agency for pets called Hollywood Paws have been sued by more than a dozen owners of a Rottweiler and other dogs for not making their pooches into stars. They claim that the firm had charged them tens of thousands of dollars but failed to procure film and television auditions for their pets. "I lost a lot of money," said Rachel Armstrong, owner of Goliath the Rottweiler.

A Brazilian man was on trial Friday for distributing pornography out of a condominium in an upscale Orlando neighborhood. Postal inspectors had been investigating the international porno ring since 2003.

A 77-year-old British man who posted his first video on the online home video site YouTube last week has already amassed a huge number of fans. The man, whose name is Peter, posts under the user name geriatric1927 (the year he was born). He talks about how he became addicted to the enormously popular YouTube in his first clip.

The English added fish and chips, Sherlock Holmes and the Oxford English Dictionary to its list of national treasures Tuesday, along with Monty Python, Robin Hood, the Mini and the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers. " A government-funded project called Icons has asked English citizens to create a list of things that capture the essence of English culture. Some icons previously put on the list include cricket, pubs, red double-decker buses, Stonehenge, the FA Cup and the humble cup of tea.