MILLIONS of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway.

AP - Gorillas on Weight Watchers? Polar bears slurping sugar-free Jell-O shots? Giraffes nibbling alfalfa biscuits? The days of letting visitors throw marshmallows to the animals are mostly history at zoos around the country, replaced by a growing focus on diet and nutrition that parallels the fitness craze in humans.

AP - A businessman claims in a lawsuit that he was injured when a stripper giving him a lap dance swiveled and smacked him in the face with the heel of her shoe.

Reuters - In the case of "United States of America v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins," the shark fins have prevailed.

AP - A Monroe County sheriff's detective on a stakeout to catch an arsonist arrested the suspect as he tried to steal gas from the officer's cruiser. Officers were placed around homes currently under construction after police had gotten two arson complaints within the past week.

AP - Amber Birdsall didn't have a long birthday wish list. All she wanted in exchange for turning 7, she told her inquiring mother a few weeks ago, was for her stepfather, Army Spc. Glenn Johnson, to return home from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he had been assigned since May.

AP - The sale price for a Chattanooga, Tenn., house shaped like a flying saucer is nothing to phone home about.

The Israeli secret service launches a new venture: an internet diary, or blog, written by four agents.

Someone has offered more than $1,000 on eBay for a cornflake that looks like Illinois. What impending economic crisis?

Reuters - A Japanese sailor has set out from Hawaii for Japan, hoping to complete the 7,000 km (4,400 mile) journey using only the power of the waves beneath his boat.

Reuters - An American in Costa Rica was caught smuggling nearly a pound of cocaine (0.4 kg) in his stomach after he went into convulsions on a plane bound for Miami, police said on Friday.

Reuters - California resident Nancy Fiddler has put for sale on eBay a mastodon skeleton that takes up most of her garage. The minimum bid -- $115,000.

Reuters - Igor Volodin believes vodka is no more harmful than chocolate. He is proud to be the first Russian to produce the spirit in a special women's version, designed to be sipped with salad after a workout in the gym.

More than 400 colonies of honey bees escaped from their crates when the truck they were in tipped on a Sacramento highway. Firefighters and police officers were stung as they attempted to contain the bees, which were being shipped to Yakima, Wash., on Highway 99, CNN reported.

Reuters - The U.S. dollar's value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while on vacation in the Netherlands.

If you like the song Danny Boy, then the place you want to be right now is probably a cafe in Michigan.

Sounds a little flaky, but someone has offered more than $50 on eBay for a piece of cereal being touted by two Chesapeake residents as a look-alike to the state of Illinois.

Two sisters from Virginia are selling a single corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois on the online auction site eBay, drawing bids of up to $26 on Sunday.

It's one of the unspoken rules of modern society: if you're going to order coffee at a drive-though, remember to wear pants.

A man lands a massive fish weighing 66kg with his bare hands to win Nigeria's famous Argungu fishing festival.