Tycoons are begging on the streets of Moscow in a game to fight stress. They pay to wear clothes that are stained to give them a foul odor – and are also made up by a makeup artist.

After an hour of role-playing, the men wash, change and retire to an expensive restaurant to celebrate their exploits. Under the rules of the competition, each hands over a token sum of money to the tycoon who begged the most money.

An Indian man is on a mission to spread AIDS awareness by distributing fliers while walking backward all over his country.

D Munniyappan is hoping to eclipse the world record set by Plennie Wingo of Texas, who covered 7,982 miles in a transcontinental reverse walk from Santa Monica, Calif., to Turkey. Munniyappan set off on his mission last January and has already covered a distance of 5,243 miles walking reverse through 11 Indian states.

A tiny Bible college in Kentucky has a major hang-up with its telephone number.

Kentucky Mountain Bible College wants to change its number because the 666 prefix is disturbing to Christians who recognize it as the biblical mark of the beast – or Satan.

The phone company that serves the college said it plans to change the number as soon as possible.

A sign outside an adult-entertainment store in Minnesota offering a “clergy discount” has sparked outrage from its churchgoing neighbors.

The double-sided sign, which stands outside Pure Pleasure in Stewartville, can be seen by people entering and exiting Midwest Baptist Church.

One side of the sign reads: “And God said go out into the world and have great sex. God’s gift to women. Amen and amen.” The other side reads: “Clergy discount. Have good sex. Hallelujah!”

A district judge in Kentucky ordered two teens to do 50 pushups after they appeared before him on speeding charges.

Judge Dan Ballou ordered the young offenders to drop and give him 50 before approving reduced sentences in the two separate cases.

The Lexington judge said he made the teens do the pushups because he thought they could benefit from the public embarrassment.

“Really, I just wanted to make them squirm a little bit,” he said.