Oliver Tree

A survey of British parents has compiled a list of the top 10 questions mothers and fathers hate to hear, ranging from the easy, like would a shark beat a dinosaur in a fight? to the tricky, like why is the sky blue? to the near-impossible, such as how much does the earth weigh?

For this brave individual, an extreme bout of tickling actually causes him to pass out.

Martin Springer, 49, was hauled yesterday from his Los Angeles classroom and arrested on suspicion of fondling two girls over a three-year period.The latest incident follows the arrest of Mark Berndt, 61, a veteran third-grade instructor who was arrested on Monday and charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children. He remained jailed on $23 million bail, officials said.

Officers in Neon, Kentucky allegedly found 22-year-old Andrew Toothman wearing only a pair of boots when they entered the Food World store at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.According to the report Toothman had also written 'sorry' on the shop floor using NyQuil pills.

The hooded figures are pictured carrying candles as they process through Chigwell and Leytonstone in Essex on Jan. 31. The photographs began to circulate the internet on Tuesday and have caused a storm on Twitter and Facebook, with user speculation ranging from a simple hoax to the dreaded KKK.

Writing in her blog rantsfrommommyland.com, Julianna Miner describes the strange and cringe-worthy names her 3-year-old daughter conjures for her innocent looking toys. In the video 'The Island of Lost Toys' Miner shows viewers several examples such as the sweet looking dog called Damnnit or the pretty pink bunny called Crack Rabbit.

Anonymous published a 15 minute transcript from the call, which was between officers from both countries discussing how to prosecute the hacking collective and its members. In a Twitter posting the group gloated, The FBI might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now, after it emerged members of Anonymous had managed to intercept an email between the FBI and British authorities listing a time and password for the sensitive conference call.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is to axe a further 7,300 jobs, it emerged Friday.The cuts, equivalent to 12 percent of the workforce, are expected to deliver $1.6 billion in annual benefits by the end of 2014, but will cost $2.1 billion to implement.

A TV advert that uses a Steve Jobs impersonator dressed in wings and a halo to sell an Android tablet computer has been criticized for its poor taste. In the ad, Taiwanese comedian and impersonator Ah-Ken, dressed in Jobs' trademark black turtle neck sweater and blue jeans, extols the virtues of Action Electronics Co.'s combined tablet PC and multi-language dictionary, which runs on Google's Android.

A 36-year-old personal trainer who had sex with her teenage client for two years, fainted after being sentenced for up to 15 years in prison. Suni Faith Andersen, who earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of forcible sexual abuse, passed out and hit her head on a table after hearing the sentence in a Utah courtroom on Tuesday.

Singer Bono is set to make almost $1 billion in profit when Facebook goes public later this year, it emerged today. Wednesday's $5 billion dollar Facebook IPO is set to make thousands of stock holders a fortune, including the U2 front man who, through his investment vehicle Elevation Partners, bought a one percent stake in the social network for $90 million in 2009.

Aside from the brilliant blue tint, little Nong Yousui claims to be able to see in complete darkness, reportedly completing a test in a pitch-black room as proof. The report was originally shot by Chinese news channel CCTV in 2009, but has only recently gone viral across the Internet.

For 35-year-old David Choe, a decision six years ago to be paid in Facebook shares rather than a few thousand dollars cash is about to land the once homeless graffiti artist a $200 million windfall. A day after Facebook's blockbuster $5 million IPO, Choe's few shares could put him among the thousand or so employees set to become overnight multi-millionaires.

One Californian couple were shocked to discover the taxman does have a human side after all. Accepting the pair's excuse that the adult brain turns to jello those first few months raising a baby, the IRS wrote a letter to inform the couple they were annulling a $2,522 fine.

It has been the stuff of science fiction for decades, but the U.S. military announced on Tuesday it is close to developing a virtual reality contact lens to enhance soldiers' vision on the battlefield. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is working with Washington-based company Innovega to develop a system of contact lenses and small wearable glasses giving soldiers a considerable tactical advantage.

It is hailed as the most important stock market event of the decade. Rumors of Facebook's highly anticipated IPO filing on Wednesday excited stock watchers around the world as the California-based company moves to raise as much as $10 billion - valuing the company at a staggering $100 billion.

A Chicago High School has banned students from sexually explicit dancing, known as 'grinding', ahead of a school event. Administrators at Mundelein High School in Illinois have written to parents ahead of the upcoming 'Turnabout Dance' on February 11, warning students that 'back to front' or 'any other sexually explicit dancing' will not be allowed.

It is the terrifying picture scaring internet users in their thousands. What at first appears to be an innocent picture of a front room masks the spine tingling face of a hidden demon.

Moviegoers suffered seizures and vomiting after watching a shocking new horror film at the Sundance Film Festival last week. Paramedics were rushed to a Utah cinema after one man stumbled from an advanced screening of horror film V/H/S and collapsed in the foyer convulsing.

A hotel guest who stayed at Las Vegas' Luxor hotel died after contracting Legionnaires disease at the resort, it emerged Tuesday. The holidaymaker, who has yet to be identified by health officials, contracted Legionnaires after staying at the resort in December 2011.

Mobile retail app Shopkick on Tuesday, announced it's software drove over $100 million worth of in-store purchases last year. According to company chiefs, consumers armed with Shopkick enabled smartphones spent $110 million at participating retailers over the last 12 months, the location based app's first full year of operation.