Toronto, Ontario -- A study by a psychologist at York University in Toronto suggests that women judge the attractiveness of other women more harshly when they're at their most fertile. The psychologist presented heterosexual students with photos of faces and found that when women were in the most fertile phase of their menstrual cycles, they rated the attractiveness of other women lower than when they were not.

MADRID, Spain -- Hell hath no furry like Spanish soccer fans. About 30 fans are suing a referee and the Spanish soccer federation over a mistake because the team Real Madrid was awarded a penalty kick against Valencia. They are asking one euro, or $1.30, per person in damages and demanding a public apology.

VARESE, Italy -- You've heard of barking up the wrong tree -- what about praying at the wrong grave? An Italian family has been offered a free cemetery plot after it was discovered that gravediggers put the wrong body under the headstone bearing their relative's name. Ananova.com reports the unnamed family had been visiting the improperly-marked grave for 15 years before the mistake was revealed.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. -- Officials at a Washington state elementary school could get in trouble for staging a "Fear Factor-"like assembly where students were allegedly forced to eat worms. A local TV station which got a hold of a video of the event reports the tape shows teachers coercing kids to swallow mealworms against their will. KOGO-TV interviewed one sixth-grader who participated in the stunt and claimed teachers were calling her names because she refused to eat one of the squiggly creatures.

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