Dusseldorf, Germany (WFN) -- A Croatian woman has been convicted of phoning in a phony bomb threat to Germany's Dusseldorf airport just so she wouldn't have to go on vacation with her boyfriend. The 28-year-old confessed that she made the fake al Qaeda threat because her parents didn't approve of her beau and she didn't know how to tell the guy she couldn't vacation with him.

BERN, Switzerland -- Talk about confused: An 86-year-old Swiss man who was driving the wrong way on a highway was so convinced he was driving the right direction that he stopped to complain to cops about the other drivers.

LAS VEGAS -- A British man who liquidated all his worldly possessions into $138,000 cash will gamble it all on one spin of the roulette wheel this Sunday in Las Vegas as part of a reality series called "Double or Nothing." If 32-year-old Ashley Revell loses he'll walk away with nothing -- he isn't even being paid for appearing in the show. Revell says he hasn't decided if he'll bet on red or black yet.

BERLIN -- A German-run web cam featuring a family of wild boars is attracting a large amount of internet viewers. The site www.wildtiere-live.de has been dubbed "Pig Brother" and has had 1.5 million hits in two weeks.

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