Pop artist Britney Spears said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation Sunday that parents should not worry if their kids want to copy her. Spears’ newest album contains sexually explicit lyrics and the performer recently kissed aging singer Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards.

A factory owner climbed onto the roof of his building in Thailand to raise a flag to ward off bad luck but slipped and fell to his death Friday. The man received the magical flag from a Chinese fortune-teller who told him to fly it for good luck.

A South African military pilot who ejected from his aircraft was struck and killed by a truck while parachuting to the ground. The other pilot who ejected was killed after landing in a rocky area.

A woman who discovered half a worm in her baked potato after eating the other half is suing Wendy’s. She is seeking unspecified damages for what she said was “physical pain and mental anguish.”

A Colorodo teenager died Sunday when he reached under a clutch pedal to retrieve a kitten, which caused his friend to lose control of their pickup truck and crash. The driver was also injured in the crash.

50 people have been arrested in Iran after police broke up a crowd that had assembled to watch the rumored execution of a half-woman half-tigress. Drawings of the beast-woman had even been distributed beforehand, which only heightened expectations for the event.

A forty-three-year-old male inmate was discovered this week in a women’s prison in Kentucky after spending the past eight months there. The prisoner’s driver’s license states that that he is female and even longtime friends were surprised by the news that she is actually a he.