ODD NEWS....

A donkey from the northeast Egyptian city of Tanta has been sentenced to 24 hours in jail for stealing corn from a field owned by a local agricultural research center, the Al-Ahram weekly said on Thursday. The head of the research center called police after corncobs began vanishing from a field. The police laid a trap for the corn thief and subsequently caught a local donkey red-handed. Local media reported that the donkey's owner, a local farmer, then admitted to training the animal to steal corncobs. A local judge sentenced the donkey to 24 hours in jail and fined the farmer 50 Egyptian pounds ($9.5). This May, a donkey from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas was found guilty of assault and battery and thrown behind bars after he attacked two men.


SANTA TO BECOME U.S.PRESIDENT..
WASHINGTON, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - A man who changed his name to Santa Claus three years ago has successfully registered as a presidential candidate in the U.S. state of West Virginia, local authorities said. A total of 14 people, including an inmate at a Texas prison, have managed to register as write-in presidential candidates in the state, thanks to its simple registration process. "All they have to do is file a form at least 42 days before the election," a local electoral official said. Santa Claus, who sports a long white beard, changed his name from Thomas O'Connor in 2005. The write-in candidates' names will not appear on West Virginia ballots at the November election, but voters can write the name of any officially registered candidate on the ballot paper.


BREAST MILK BETTER THAN COW MILK!
A U.S. animal rights group has sent a letter to a major ice-cream producer suggesting that they replace cow milk with milk from lactating women in their products, the group said on Thursday. "The breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream?" Tracy Reiman, vice-president of the Virginia-based nonprofit organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said in her letter to Ben and Jerry's. The organization cites Storchen, a new restaurant in Switzerland that earlier announced plans to replace at least 75% of the cow milk that it uses in its ice-cream with milk from female breasts. Ben and Jerry's, however, were cautious in their response. "We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to the issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child," the company said in a statement. PETA failed to mention in its letter that the Swiss restaurant abandoned its plans after government inspectors warned of possible legal action, saying that human milk was not on the list of approved dairy products.