Miami, FL (WFN) -- Funeral services will be held tomorrow (Dec. 4) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to honor stock car racing pioneer Buddy Helms, who died Monday (Dec. 1), just two weeks after the 87-year-old had been honored as the oldest living NASCAR driver.

PORIRUA HARBOUR, N.Z. -- Talk about your seal of disapproval. Police in Porirua Harbour, New Zealand, recently spent hours chasing a slippery seal that jumped aboard a train and bit a commuter. The seal was finally snagged in a bag and taken to calmer waters.

NEW YORK -- When the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York opens its Presidential Suite in January it will be the most expensive hotel room in New York at $12,595 a night. The room includes a full kitchen, formal dinning room, living room, a baby grand piano and panoramic views of Central Park and the Hudson River.

BOGOTA, Columbia -- The Columbian government is fighting the war on drugs with panties and bras. A new program is being initiated that has poor women sewing push-up bras and thongs which will be sold to a French supermarket chain, instead of growing crops of drugs.

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