M-a-a-a-rital bliss

On BBC online: A man in Sudan was caught abusing his neighbour's goat in the middle of the night. The village elders decided that as he had used the goat as his wife, he should marry it and pay the neighbour a 50 dollar dowry. Who said there's no humor in sharia? Some way to eternal fame too.

Here's another attempt at eternal fame, also on BBC: Rule of law takes on a curious turns in the Philippines where a judge lost his case in the country's supreme court: he is not supposed to concult three mystic dwarfs in his office. 'In a letter to the court he said: "From obscurity, my name and the three mystic dwarves became immortal."'