Police responding to a call from a Ness County man's home arrived to discover the homeowner's girlfriend sitting on the toilet, and had been on it for two years. Authorities said the woman, 35 years old, was on the toilet fully clothed, with her pants down to mid-thigh.

Without a reservoir dedicated to supplying the expanding Atlanta, Georgia-area with water, residents face shortages. The situation has caused Georgia lawmakers to claim an 1818 survey setting the boundary with Tennessee was faulty. Now Georgia wants to move the state lines to lay claim on the Tennessee River. A resolution to challenge the 1818 survey easily passed the Republican-controlled Georgia Senate and House, but Tennessee lawmakers say they won't cooperate with the effort.

Teachers and officials at a coed British school were shocked to see a class with an all-boy attendance on the first day of school. For the first time since it opened 30 years ago Bassetts Farm, a primary school with a population equally split between girls and boys, suddenly had a class of 20 4-year old boys, an occurrence that is still puzzling people.

Members of a local golf club have found themselves on edge as a two-meter freshwater crocodile decided to settle in the golf course. The crocodile was first spotted in the water hazard at a golf course outside the Townsville area.

A hospital in Finland is in hot water after one of its patients lodged a complaint after finding a mouse head in his plate of steamed vegetables. While the health of the patient in Joensuu, eastern Finland, whose name was withheld, had not been endangered by the dead rat, Sakari Kela, chief administrator at the Northern Karelia Central Hospital said it was "understandable that he lost his appetite. "