Footage of John Lennon smoking cannabis, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon's tea is the focus of a court case starting in Boston next week over whether the video should be made public. The cas
e pits Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, right, against Lawrence, Massachusetts-based World Wide Video, which claims ownership of nine hours of raw footage from 1970.
KATERINA PLEWA New York woman has filed a lawsuit against Limited Brands Inc alleging that the parent company of Victoria's Secret stole her idea for its Very Sexy 100-way strapless convertible bra.
Katerina Plew sued in the US District Court in Lower Manhattan, saying Victoria's Secret infringed her May 2004 patent and knew about the patent since at least April 2006.
Plew, a single mother who works as a legal clerk, said she researched her product by visiting stores and looking through catalogues.
IOAN CIOCEAThe population of Bustuchin, Romania, have taken to wearing army uniforms – after the mayor got them for nothing.
"I read in the paper that the army had thousands of unwanted uniforms that they were planning to burn and I asked if I could have them, as people in this town do not have a lot of money," said Mayor Ioan Ciocea. "I gave every family in the town men's and women's uniforms, and they modified the garments to fit children as well."
TU CHENG-SHENGTaiwan's cabinet will soon lose one of its more colourful members who was notorious for sleeping in parliament, shouting at politicians, picking his nose in public and shoving a journalist.
Tu Cheng-sheng, education minister since 2004, will step down next month along with current president Chen Shui-bian.
"According to Eastern tradition and Taiwan culture, you could say that these actions were hard to accept," said Liu Chin-hsu, secretary-general of the National Teachers' Association.
The cabinet of President-elect Ma Ying-jeou is shaping up as a group of technocrats rather than political firebrands.
Tu, 63, was filmed sleeping at an October 2007 parliament meeting.
OH, REALLYA Florida woman found an 8ft-long alligator prowling in her kitchen.
Sandra Frosti, 69, says the alligator must have pushed its way through the screen door on the back porch and then walked through an open door at her home in Oldsmar, just north of Tampa.
The alligator apparently then strolled through the living room, down a hall and into the kitchen.
A trapper removed the alligator, which was cut by a plate that was knocked to the ground in the chaos.
COMING UPIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make his first official visit to India this week in a sign of the two countries' ambitions to deepen energy ties despite opposition from the United States.
Ahmadinejad is due to talk to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday during a trip to India that has sparked diplomatic barbs between New Delhi and Washington.
Nuclear-armed India, hungry to tap new sources of energy, is looking to Iran as a long-term energy partner.
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