In the listing the woman says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black knickers and an empty condom wrapper "size small" found in her bed after her husband had an affair with another woman.
The seller – identified on eBay only as annaste
lla007 – provides a rather unflattering description of the knickers.
"They are so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or, even better, something for Halloween perhaps." The eBay listing also includes a detailed account of the events leading up to the discovery.
SIERRA LEONEA boys' soccer team from Sierra Leone won silver at a tournament in Sweden, but were hailed as champions in their poor West African homeland – because they all came home.
Sierra Leone is bottom of the UN development rankings and its athletes frequently vanish when travelling abroad for sporting fixtures in order to seek asylum, meaning many western countries now simply refuse to let them in.
"It's rare for a whole team of Sierra Leoneans to go abroad and come back," said Kweku Lisk, legal adviser to their club, FC Johansen.
"It goes to show what Sierra Leone can do when it puts its mind to it. We have managed to stick a feather in the cap for the country," he said.
Freetown's FC Johansen was the first African team to compete in the tournament's 27-year history, thanks to the club's main supporter, the eponymous Swedish Honorary Consul Arne Johansen.
ANTARCTICElephant seals swimming under Antarctic ice and fitted with special sensors are providing scientists with crucial data on ice formation, ocean currents and climate change, said a study released last week.
The seals swimming under winter sea ice have overcome a "blind-spot" for scientists by allowing them to calculate how fast sea ice forms during winter.
Sea ice reflects sunlight back into space, so less sea ice means more energy is absorbed by the earth, causing more warming.
"They have made it possible for us to observe large areas of the ocean under the sea ice in winter for the first time," said co-author Steve Rintoul from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
Conventional oceanographic monitoring from ships, satellites and drifting buoys, cannot provide observations under sea ice.
"Until now, our ability to represent the high-latitude oceans and sea ice in oceanographic and climate models has suffered as a result," said Rintoul, who also works with the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart.
The elephant seals have provided scientists with a 30-fold increase in data recorded in parts of the Southern Ocean, said the study by a team of French, Australian, US and British scientists and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Between 2004 and 2005, the seals swam up to 40 miles a day, supplying scientists with 16,500 ice profiles. They dived to a depth of more than 1,500ft on average and to a maximum depth of nearly a mile.
THE NETHERLANDSPolice say a Dutch man survived his car being struck in quick succession by two trains travelling in opposite directions.
They say the car was crossing the tracks when it was struck by an eastbound train and dragged several dozen yards until it collided with a westbound train.
"It picked him up, so to speak, and the car was left back at the crossing," said police spokeswoman Desiree Brabers.
The accident happened in the town of Dorst, 75 miles south of Amsterdam.
The driver, 59, was taken to hospital in a critical but stable condition.
"I guess you could say he had an angel looking out for him," Brabers said.
She said the cause of the accident was unknown, but it appeared the man drove past a lowered crossing.
UNITED STATESA man who says he doesn't trust paper money has delivered enough coins to cover half the price of a brand new pickup truck.
Employees at a dealership in the Cincinnati suburb of Springdale say 70-year-old James Jones put down 16 coffee tins full of coins Tuesday for a new Chevrolet Silverado.
Salesman David Crisswell says employees spent 90 minutes counting the collection of dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollar coins, which covered half of the $16,000 (£8,000) price of the pickup. Jones and his wife, Betty, wrote a cheque for the other half of the cost.
Jones' son says his father has always preferred to pay with coins. Dennis Jones says he is amazed that his penny-pinching father decided to replace his 1981 pickup, which struck his father when its hand brake failed last year, putting him in hospital.
