Accompanied by his dog, a 44-year-old man has embarked upon a journey that has included ridinghis lawn mower for the last two years. Paul Woods travels by day and sleeps in a tent at night and he plans to reach Virginia from Alaska at the speed of 15 mph. The Herald Journal of Logan quotes him as saying. "You've got to be pretty strange and pretty weird to be driving a tractor mower across country. " Recently he took a break in the parking lot of Beaver Mountain ski resort, 107 miles north of Salt Lake City, near the Idaho border.

In London's booming real estate market, any price will be fair enough, even if it costs $335,000 for a 77-square foot apartment. According to the real estate agent handling the sale, it is the location of the tiny dilapidated studio suite that has made it so costly. While the apartment, which was probably a former storage room, has all the basic facilities that a five-room home would provide, the only problem lies in the size, whether it is a cabinet, a sink or a shower.

Dogs have been known as man's best friends for decades, and Matt Carcerano's 16-month-old dog, Bella, has lived up to it. Bella, a mix of poodle and Labrador retriever, saved her master life by timely waking him up and alerting him on a house fire. Carcerano was sound asleep Monday night when Bella tried getting his attention by a mix of "growl, whimper and bark. "

Expectant mothers in Germany were reported to be going to extreme measures to prevent them from giving birth before 2007. According to reports, pregnant women in Germany were preventing the delivery of their babies before 2007 so they could receive the $2,552 per month handouts until the baby's first birthday.