A postcard sent by a Japanese soldier from Burma during World War II has finally been received, 64 years after it was sent. The postcard traveled through Burma, Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii before reaching 80-year-old Shizuo Nagano in southern Kochi prefecture, according to Mukogawa Women's University. A student from the university was instrumental in the postcard reaching its final destination.

A collector, Todd McDevitt, bought a near-mint copy of Detective Comics No. 27, a pre-World War II comic featuring Batman's debut, found recently in an attic. McDevitt would not say how much he paid for the comic or who he bought it from but believes the issue to be worth around $250,000.

lthough smoking is known to cause numerous health problems, including a shortened life-span, one London woman seems to be immune to the perils of cigarettes. Winnie Langley, who turned 100 on Tuesday, celebrated her century-marking birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigarette-a feat most would consider to anathema to a long life. However, not for Ms. Lamgley, who has been smoking since 1914, when she was just seven years old.

Adolf Hitler's personal stock of champagne was won by an anonymous Swedish bidder in a British auction Friday. The bottle of Moet et Chandon champagne dated 1937 was auctioned and purchased for $3,359 at Charterhouse auctioneers in Sherbourne, southwest England.

Workers at a scrap yard in Tampa called police when they thought they discovered a "torpedo. " But experts, who were called in from nearby MacDill Air Force Base quickly identified the object as a Patriot anti-aircraft missile.