RAVES

As part of a U.N. resolution passed in December, bottom trawling, which destroys coral reefs and suffocates marine life, will be banned in the South Pacific.

Research at the University of Miami indicates that selenium supplements may lower levels of HIV in the blood of afflicted patients.

RANTS

A man in India has spent six years mourning his wife's death, while lying in a grave he dug for himself.

A broke British man wants compensation from a hospital, because, after they gave him a diagnosis that he had a short time to live, he proceeded to take lavish vacations and stopped paying bills, only to later find that the diagnosis was incorrect.