London, Ontario - Muzzled and unable to bark for help, police say Kiki the husky found another way to alert helpful humans to its desperate plight.

The dog honked a car horn.

Police say the 13-year-old dog was left in deplorable conditions in a moving van, along with two other dogs and two cats.

When police discovered the van Monday in a downtown parking lot, Kiki was honking the horn.

"I think he figured out how to use the horn. Dogs are very smart, they watch us all the time," said Judy Foster, the executive director of the London Humane Society.

Along with Kiki, the humane society seized two husky-Rottweiler crosses, Buddy and Six-toes, each about four or five years old.

Six-toes got his name because he has six toes.

In a new article, four London doctors warn of a professional who is committing malpractice and getting away with it: the tooth fairy. They report on an 8-year-old boy who was sent to an allergist because of his epic runny nose. Regular old medical treatment didn't work, so the next step was a CT scan. The scan showed signs of inflammation in the sinuses.

But it also revealed something more surprising: a tooth in his left ear canal. It turned out that 3 years before, the boy had woken up "extremely distressed" because the tooth fairy had taken the tooth from under his pillow and jammed it in his ear. His parents thought that was pretty unlikely, although the tooth had indeed gone missing. Two doctors that looked in his ear over the years failed to see anything - but the boy was right, it turned out.

An ear, nose, and throat surgeon removed the tooth, the authors report in the often goofy Christmas issue of BMJ. "The patient decided to keep the tooth for posterity rather than taking the risk of attempting a further pecuniary reward," they write. They also point out that there are no standard operating procedures for the tooth fairy, and doctors should be on the lookout for his or her shoddy work.

Some might think this is udderly asinine - but it's true.

Novak Djokovic, the champion Serbian tennis player, has bought the world's entire supply of donkey cheese.

Pule is a Serbian delicacy made with donkey's milk.

It is said to be the world's most expensive cheese, which makes Djokovic's bill all the more exorbitant.

The crumbly, white cheese sells for 1000 euros ($1233) a kilogram, but it's unclear exactly how much the Australian Open winner has bought.

Seattle - Celebrating the new law in Washington state that allows him to freely smoke marijuana within his home, local man Erik Cirrone, 25, told reporters Thursday there is no longer any political or social issue he feels strongly about in any way whatsoever.

"Yeah, the right to smoke marijuana legally was pretty much the only thing even remotely tying me to events going on in the world," said Cirrone, who unreservedly took a drag from a joint before adding that he does not have an impassioned stance, or any stance at all, on topics such as the economy, health care, gay rights, unemployment, Gaza, global warming, or any other major domestic or international matter.

"I used to consider myself pretty political before this law was passed, but now I realize this was actually the one and only political issue I cared about. Don't really give a shit about anything else, frankly."

At press time, Cirrone was smoking pot.

First video ever from Mars. Raw uncut / unedited footage from NASA rover "Curiosity" shooting its first video after landing safely on Mars on August 6 2012. This is considered by many experts as the first tangible proof we have about the existence of extra-terrestrial life forms in our solar system. Filmed by the MAHLI camera.

There are a lot of bad jobs out there, and maybe you're convinced that yours is one of them. But here's a job description that virtually nobody would likely be jealous of: professional fart-smeller.

Some Chinese who practice alternative medicine apparently believe that each person's flatulence has particular nuances - bitter, savory, sweet, fishy - and these undertones can be used to detect diseases by a trained expert with a sharp sense of smell, according to Rocket News 24. An unusually meaty smell, for example, might be interpreted as an indication of intestinal bleeding or tumors.

Oddly enough, some scientific research suggests that using farts as a diagnostic tool isn't as far-fetched as it might sound.

Dogs, for example, have been trained to detect the presence of prostate cancer from smelling patients' urine samples. In another study, dogs were able to identify the stool samples of colorectal cancer patients with 97 percent accuracy.

Savvy politicians know there's much to be gained by giving the people what they want. And at least some Americans want... a Star Wars-style Death Star.

A petition posted to the White House Web site - the administration created a forum that allows people to post petitions and promises a response to those that garner more than 25,000 digital signatures - is seeking the construction of a Death Star by 2016.

Forget sequestration! Let's build a moon-sized space station that the evil Darth Vader would love! The Death Star, Star Wars fans will recall, was the bad guys' big gun capable of blowing entire planets into oblivion (sorry, Princess Leia) with a laser.

"By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense," the petition reads.

Never mind the bit about such things only existing "a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." If we do end up building one, we should beware and do a bit better on the security front than the Galactic Empire did: remember, scrappy bands of rebels actually managed to destroy the Death Star pretty handily - three times*. (UPDATE: I'm changing this to twice, thanks to feedback from Star Wars aficionados, who tell me the third Death Star isn't a part of the accepted "canon" - thanks, and may the force be with you, Loop fans!)

The petition has gotten 495 signatures as of 11:25 a.m Monday.

With the Italian economy in its fourth recession in the last ten years and unemployment soaring, a supermarket has come up with a novel way of hiring. According to Germany's Mittelstands Nachrichten, customers who spend over EUR30 will receive a lottery ticket and the grand prize winners will be given "temporary part-time assistant jobs" at the supermarket. We are not really sure where to go with this - but somewhere in this odd arrangement is a sad reflection of the European society's deterioration...

Turkish private broadcaster, CNBC-e, has been fined $30,000 after airing an anti-religious episode of The Simpsons in which God was shown taking orders from the devil.

­Turkey's Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTUK) issued a fine saying that the show "makes fun of God, encouraging young people to exercise violence by showing the murders as God's orders." "The Simpsons" is especially popular amongst the younger middle classes, the local Hurriyet newspaper reported.

In one of the segments of the episode, titled "Dial D for Diddly, the devout character Ned Flanders portrays serial killer, Dexter Morgan from another TV show, and goes on a killing rampage, an order, he believed, was straight from God.

Later in the controversial episode the devil was asking God to make him a coffee.