A pod of some 50 pilot whales has stranded itself in the Florida Everglades National Park along the Gulf of Mexico. Officials can't say why and already about 10 of the whales have died. Fisherman discovered the pod there on Tuesday.

The men Harrison O'kene worked with on a Nigerian tugboat last May did not get lucky when their boat went down, all died. But Okene did get lucky, he found an air bubble and survived 60 hours at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the sunken ship.

Suzette Hall of Longmont, Colo. decided that providing haircuts while topless would likely be a good money-maker. She may have been right but it was a gig that didn't last so long. Last week Hall was arrested for not having a licence - to cut hair.

Lota - Considered as one of the most outstanding examples of French and British landscape developments in Chile, the Botanical Park of Lota was conceived by the mining magnate Luis Cousiño as a gift of love to his wife Isidora Goyenechea.

Harrisburg - In a country where democracy is hanging on by a sheer thread, a Pennsylvania lawmaker is attempting to ban scented body products in all public schools. Teenage puberty and body odor due to normal body changes may get worse if this ban goes into effect.

The embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is making the news in his country of Canada and elsewhere, especially in the U.S. where he's been the butt of TV show sketches and talk show jokes. Now even a small-town U.S.A. cop has made a Ford reference.

A lesbian couple, Patricia Ewert and Vernita Gray, have become the first same-sex couple in Illinois to marry. The state isn't set to become the 16th U.S. state to allow gay marriage until June 1 but a judge allowed their case as Gray is dying of cancer.

Belfast - This week, Belfast police and counter-terror units deployed roadblocks in an attempt to deter car bombs after the Irish Republican Army’s attack on a shopping center last Sunday, in which no one was injured.

Pop star Justin Bieber landed in Brisbane on Sunday to do seven Australian concerts on his 'Believe' tour. Once a sellout everywhere he went, he was met by news that his tickets aren't moving so well and some are even going for half-price on eBay.

A U.K. consumer website called FreeDeliveryLand released a poll this week that purports to name the Most Heartbreaking Movie of all-time. The winner is the 1997 version of 'Titanic' starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio

Vancouver - Thousands of marijuana activists in the Canadian province of B.C. are trying to change how the drug is policed there. But the petition 'Sensible B.C.' canvassers are gathering appears unlikely to gain enough signatures to get the job done.

Belfast - The BBC's Panorama, a top-notch investigative program, revealed Thursday details of an undercover Military Reaction Force which operated in Northern Ireland in the early 70's, killing suspected terrorists and inevitably unarmed citizens.

There may be a measure of justice on the way for Brenda Moreside. The 44-year-old Moreside was killed in her Alberta home in February of 2005, stabbed to death after calling 911 for help and receiving none. An inquest into her death began Monday.

It's a deed you might find objectionable: Lisa and Cleveland Cox from Liberty Township in Ohio adopted a boy and now, 9 years later, gave him back. They've been charged with child abandonment and are on the run.

The European Central Bank cuts interest rate from 0.50 percent to 0.25 percent. The historically low rate shows E.C.B.’s intentions to save the Euro but may have quickened the abolishment the Euro instead.

Research is starting to show that the food we eat has a huge bearing on the composition of the microbes in the gut, and that these microbes can affect health and immunity.

There could be an investigation into a badly burned puppy, with severe burns on its face, that somehow turned up in a work camp in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The puppy is now in the care of the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS).

Genetic studies into eczema, carried out in mice, have found mutations in the filaggrin gene. Researchers think that this mutation leads to defects in the skin's outer surface.

A Morgan Stanley Co. private wealth fund manager, John C. Kelly, has been charged in a Manhattan court with filming sex encounters with three separate women without their consent. If found guilty of all counts he could land in jail for up to 12 years.

Oklahoma City - A man who escaped from a Maryland prison 33 years ago, and has been running since, found his past catching up to him. Anthony Rackley was being extorted by his business partner, who demanded money under the threat of handing him over to the cops.