NewsAjax footballer drops trophy from bus : Ajax's Maarten Stekelenberg has added his name to the growing list of butter-fingered players capable of winning trophies but seemingly unable to hold on to them.

The Ajax goalkeeper was celebrating the club's Eredivisie win on Sunday, proudly wielding the shield aloft as the team bus travelled through Amsterdam, when he allowed it to slip from his grasp and drop under the wheels of the following bus.

NewsWallaby in Dorset garden : A wallaby has been filmed hopping around a garden in Dorset before it escaped over a neighbouring fence.

Jan Cooper said she was having a coffee when she spotted the marsupial at her home in Blue Waters Drive, Lyme Regis, just after 0700 BST.

She called the RSPCA but the wallaby fled after about 90 minutes.

Newsmost lucrative college majors : The field of psychoanalysis has gotten the Hollywood treatment over the past decade, being featured on a hit TV show, The Sopranos, and two movies starring Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro, Analyze This and Analyze That.

In the same period, the number of college students earning psychology degrees has jumped 22%; the Princeton Review pegs it as the second most popular major today. No doubt students have visions of striking it rich, listening to patients' problems while collecting $100-an-hour fees.

NewsPoodle survives drop from sky : A poodle has survived a drop from the sky after being released from the talons of a bird of prey, apparently. All hail our fluffy new overlord!
The bedraggled miracle pooch shocked staff at a nursing home near Vancouver when she showed up, badly injured but very much alive.

NewsWoman pleads not guilty in 'Granny Bandit' holdups : FONTANA, Calif. – A woman suspected of being the "Granny Bandit" and stealing purses from shoppers at gunpoint in Southern California has pleaded not guilty to four stickups.

The San Bernardino Sun says 50-year-old Dodi Wasbotten of Fontana entered the pleas Monday in San Bernardino County.

A thief dubbed the "Granny Bandit" robbed four women earlier this month outside department stores.

The nickname was based on descriptions of the robber as an older-looking woman, although she concealed her face with sunglasses and a scarf.

NewsMan claims hospital tattooed his bottom : A patient is refused to leave hospital in China after claiming medical staff tattooed his backside during surgery.

Sheng Xianhui, 34, of Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, claims two Chinese characters were tattooed on his right buttock.

He claims the tattoo - which translates as 'Stone Disease' - was given to him by staff at Yunnan Stone Disease Hospital after he had gall stones removed.

The hospital has now called police to try to evict Sheng - but he has welcomed the police involvement and asked them to investigate.

NewsTorquay golf course rearranged after nuns struck by balls : Torquay Golf Club is changing the layout of its grounds as nuns working at nearby Stoodley Knowle independent convent girls' school continue to be struck by rogue golf balls.
It really was a case of breaking the habit when Torquay Golf Club in Devon received a series of complaints from nuns that golf balls have been hitting them.

The club announced plans to rearrange the layout of the golf course amid fears that golf balls hit towards a nearby nunnery may injure one of the 14 nuns living there.