Mysterious chunks of ice fell out of the sky and onto Dubuque, Iowa on Thursday. One 50-pound chunk fell through a woman's roof, others ripped through trees. Authorities say that whether the ice dropped from a passing plane or formed naturally in the atmosphere that either situation was rare. That is good, because the falling ice chunks rattled residents.

A man has filed a case against pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, over their health drink Boost Plus, to seek unspecified damages. He claims their vitamin-enriched beverage gave him a long-lasting erection that would not decrease and which caused him to be hospitalized. Christopher Woods, 29, says he bought the nutrition beverage at a drugstore on June 5, 2004.

No one wants a bored monkey who won't monkey around. So a German zoo hired a clown to clown around for the monkeys and cheer them up. Zoo bosses hired a local entertainer to fool around in front of the chimps, baboons, gorillas and orangutans in zoo cages because a veterinarian said that bored monkeys were more often sick or aggressive monkeys.

A stray cat had his head stuck in a jar after he tried to pull a mouse out of a jam jar in Peterborough, England. A motorist sought police assistance after finding the cat wandering beside a road, with the jar on its head and the mouse a few millimeters from its mouth.

Reggie, a black Labrador retriever, is reported to be doing fine following a surgery to remove the glue he swallowed two weeks ago. Reggie was brought to the operation table on Friday, when an X-ray test showed two large masses in the dog's abdomen. Dr. Mark Reineck, a veterinarian at Fremont Animal Hospital who operated on Reggie, revealed that he was contacted by the owner of the canine after he swallowed nearly a quarter of a bottle of heavy-duty polyurethane adhesive and began vomiting. The adhesive is usually used to bond wood, stone, metal and brick.