-  Have footwear, can't run

A man in Sweden is in custody on suspicion of stealing socks and shoes from disabled women. The man confessed, and police found hundreds of socks and shoes during a search of his house.

- Internet's just plain hungry

A man in Minneapolis has traded 35 boxes of macaroni and cheese he found in a dumpster for a bike. Ben Boughton posted his findings on CraigsList.org and within three days had three offers for the dumped food.

- Visit Canada - no goats

A Swiss driver caught speeding in Ottawa, Canada, says he was just taking advantage of the goat-free roads. The man was pulled over by police for going more than 160 kilometres an hour in a 95kmph zone.

- Mexican food can kill

A man has been arrested for killing a 7-Eleven clerk over a $1.16 taco in Michigan. Apparently Kenyatta Davis argued with Wajed Ali Baig over the price before going to his car, getting a gun and shooting him four times.

- These guys should try cricket

Forty baseball players in Nebraska, in the US Midwest, played the longest game of their lives earlier this month - 84 innings in 30 hours - in an attempt to break the world record. The game began at 10am Saturday and finished Sunday evening.

- Katrina just won't let up

A Hurricane Katrina survivor in New Orleans has got it hard: He's been served a sewage and water bill for more than $1,000 - even though he hasn't lived in the home for more than a year.

Former resident James Stromberg says, understandably, that he never thought he would be billed for a home that he wasn't able to live in.

- Uniquely Welsh with sheep poo

A company in Snowdonia has won an award for making greeting cards and gifts out of sheep droppings.

They collect sheep droppings from the surrounding mountains, sterilise it in pressure cookers and recover the washed and undigested fibres. The recovered fibres are then mixed to form paper and cardboard for the company's range of stationery and gift products. Even the washing water is not wasted - it is distributed to local growers as concentrated fertiliser.

Founders Lawrence Toms and Lez Paylor say they had been keen to develop an idea which would be uniquely Welsh.

- Cockerel named anti-social

A Scottish council is seeking an anti-social-behaviour order against the owner of a cockerel that crows too early and too loudly.

The council wants an order demanding that Kenneth Williamson keep three-year-old Charlie silent between 11pm and 7am. His crowing was recorded as breaching the 30-decibel limit set by the World Health Organisation, reports the Scotsman newspaper.

Neighbour George MacFarlane, 66, says: "This has been going on every day for the past two years, and enough is enough. It is absolutely hellish."

But Williamson, 59, says: "I've had him since he was an egg. I've also had his mum and dad and their mum and dad. We go back generations."

Unfortunately, silencing Charlie may require drastic measures.

Kerr Scott, the council's officer, says: "The vet has informed me there is nothing that can be done to quieten a cockerel, other than wring its neck."

- Keep stones away from this monkey

A Brazilian woman is considering suing a zoo after a monkey threw a stone at her. Regiane Viana, 25, needed hospital treatment after she was hit on the head at Rio de Janeiro Zoo.

She told O Dia newspaper that she had recovered from her injuries but had been shocked by the incident.

A spokesperson for the zoo says: "It was unbelievable, the monkey threw a rock at this woman out of the blue. We've never had this before, but we have to investigate and find out how he learn this trick, soon people will think not even Rio's zoo is safe anymore, even the animals are getting violent!"