Uberazzi - Celebrity gossip, scandals, rumors

A US charity shop has returned $7,500 (GBP5,000) to a man who mistakenly donated the cash with a pair of old shoes. The cash was discovered by a Bulgarian immigrant on her first day at the Goodwill store in Illinois. The family have offered Teodora Petrova a reward for her honesty in turning over the money.

A university frisbee team in England has been ordered to change its Mental Discs nickname to avoid causing offence. Staffordshire University's Ultimate Frisbee Club were to re-brand to avoid offending mental health patients.

A girl of 10 diagnosed herself with Asperger's Syndrome while reading a children's book on autism. Rosie King, from Wakefield, England, whose brother Lenny, six, was diagnosed autistic aged two, was looking at The Little Rain Man so she could understand his condition. Doctors later diagnosed Rosie after a year-long process.

Residents in the Japanese region of Chiba Prefecture are being terrorised by a gigantic tree, which has been cut into the shape of giant lizard monster Godzilla.

An oversize skull with a built-in sauna is turning heads in the Austrian capital. The white walk-in structure - situated near a busy Vienna intersection - is known as the "Wellness Skull" and also boasts a bathtub and shower.

Two rival Best Bum competitions in Australia are about to go cheek to cheek in a battle for supremacy. A festival in the outback of Queensland, Australia has said it is prepared to enter a legal battle to keep one of its treasured tournaments safe from a rival event, hosted by a major international company.

Thieves broke into the Norwegian criminal police's headquarters in Oslo, making off with several computers. According to local media the intruders smashed a window to gain entry into the building. The robbery was discovered three hours later.

Australia's political scene is to get a new party - devoted to sex. The Australian Sex Party, which will be launched in Melbourne on Thursday (20Nov08), believe that politics has become too stuffy and conservative in the country.

An Austrian pumpkin seed oil producer faces possible legal action by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the producer of Viagra, over his "Styriagra" chocolate-coated pumpkin seeds - as they look too similar to the little blue pills.

Australian researchers claim the country's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China.