The man who stood beside world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and signed gibberish has been found and has apologized. Thamsanqa Jantjie also admits to a troubled past replete with mental problems.

A new website from Finland is a reminder to us all of what smoking can do to our bodies and our health. It's from the Cancer Society of Finland and gives the viewer both visuals and text on how each part of the body is affected by smoking.

Canadian pop-singer Justin Bieber is in the Philippines where he has launched a worldwide campaign to aid victims of last month's typhoon. Bieber went there after completing his massive 15-month 'Believe' tour with 7 shows in Australia.

Research published out of Montreal's McGill University found the diet of the father, like that of mom, may play a big role in a healthy baby. For mothers the previous research looked at sufficient Vitamin B folate;that appears also true for dads.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may have dragged himself down to yet another low when, on a taped interview airing Monday night, he implied a Toronto Star reporter was a pedophile. There's no substance to the allegation but that seemed immaterial to Ford.

Abortion is seen as a taboo practice in most countries, but there is a dividing line between moral and immoral applications of this procedure.

A wall in front of the hotel in Gold Coast, Australia where Justin Bieber and entourage stayed while playing Brisbane won't be cleaned up. The wall has graffiti painted by the Biebs himself and though the Mayor says it should go - the hotel says no.

There are lousy politicians and then there is Rob Anders. To the Canadian Conservative MP it doesn't matter that Nelson Mandela is credited the world over with bringing down apartheid and ending a system that caused widespread suffering among blacks.

The Victoria SPCA claim two dogs they killed last month, Bear and Dozzer, were put down due to behavior. But while they call it euthanizing, and necessary, that's not how it looks from the outside. From the outside it looks unwarranted and uncaring.

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.

South African female praying mantises have invaded New Zealand. This has brought problems for the New Zealand males because the invasive females have a tendency to eat the males after mating.

Sydney - A 17 year old apprentice in Bathurst, Australia, was allegedly subjected to horrifying abuse according to testimony heard before the New South Wales coroner. Incidents have been reported which indicate various forms of assault, verbal and physical.

Only 55 adult Maui's dolphins are known to survive off the coast of New Zealand. A plan has been launched to try and save the few dolphins that are left.

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.

Wellington - The 21-year-old was sentenced to home detention after posing as a 16-year-old boy on Facebook and blackmailing young girls who sent him explicit photos of themselves.

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.

In Australia on his last final of his monster 14-month 'Believe' tour, Justin Bieber has been told by the mayor of Gold Coast to clean up his act. The admonition came after Bieber, with his gang, spray painted a wall near their hotel.

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.