According to a renowned psychologist, today, Monday is the gloomiest day of the year. According to Cliff Arnall, an expert in depression, he used a mathematical formula in determining today as Blue Monday.

The world's first playable ice piano has been unveiled at the 20th International Snow-Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin city. According to local reports, the ice piano, which was designed and built by a local landscaping company, can automatically play more than 30 classic piano pieces.

A $10,000 reward was announced by a California family for the safe return of their small dog. Louie, the tiny 5-month old Yorkshire terrier puppy was allegedly stolen at a supermarket parking lot, from Pauline Jolly's car.

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.

Germany's brewing industry suffered its eighth decline in the last nine years. Beer consumption plummeted to a record low of 29. 7 gallons (112. 5 liters) per person for 2007. In the 1980s, Germans guzzled down 41. 2 gallons (156 liters) of beer. However, Brewery Association managing director Peter Hahn attributed the decline in beer consumption to changing demographics and a poor summer.