Depending on how you look at it, Christmas came a month late or 11 months early for a Georgia family mired in medical debt.

Gregg and Brittiny Peters put all their belongings, other than their house, on eBay, and attracted a $20,000 bid.

But the winning bidders, Donnia and Keith Blair, of Texas, told the couple to take the money – and keep their belongings.

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Mississippi will probably be the next state to unload its pricey jet in these tough economic times.

The state House voted to sell an eight-seat, $3.7 million jet. If the plan gets Senate approval, officials said the jet could end up – where else? – on eBay.

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The Queen’s English is now the Queens English in Britain’s second-largest city.

Birmingham has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they’re confusing and old-fashioned.

The city has been taking a hammer to grammar for years, quietly dropping apostrophes from street signs since the 1950s for such places as “St. Pauls Square” or “Acocks Green.”

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Plans of a would-be thief went into the toilet.

The 21-year-old man – hoping to tunnel into the vault of Banque Populaire in Marseilles, France – instead ended up in the bathroom.

Once he drilled into the lavatory, he tripped an alarm in the wall, and police came immediately to arrest him.

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An Iraqi orphanage has been forced to remove a sculpture made in honor of the journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush.

Fatin al-Nassiri, director of the orphanage in Tikrit, said police told her the statue had to be removed because government property cannot be used for such an overtly political statement.

Journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi threw his shoes during a Dec. 14 press conference in Baghdad.