Crazy World: 5th-graders rat poison teacher A student's sudden change of heart saved the instructor's life

Fifth-graders try to use rat poison on teacher

US: Three fifth-graders, two boys and a girl, confessed to using rat poison in attempts to harm a teacher.

The elementary school students laced the teacher's coffe and a muffin with the rat poison during two separate incidents, according to New York Daily News.

Fortunately for the teacher, she did not drink the coffee or eat the mufffin.

One of the students involved in the poisoning had a change of heart and he knocked the coffee mug over before the teacher could take a sip.

The three students have been expelled and moved to another school after the poisoning attempts came to light.

Woman climbs out of coffin 6 days later

CHINA: A 95-year-old woman in China terrified her neighbors when she climbed out of the coffin six days after she had supposedly passed away.

More than a fortnight before her 'death', the elderly woman had taken a fall and injured her head. One day, she was found not breathing or moving by one of her neighbours. The neighbor assumed the old woman had passed away even though her body had not turned cold, reports UK daily Mirror.

Since the woman used to stay on her own, her neighbor arranged for her funeral and even got a coffin so others in the neighbourhood could pay their respects. The woman was transferred to her coffin two days after her neighbor discovered her.

The neighbor did not nail the coffin as he had decided to do it just before the funeral.

He went to check on the coffin two days before the funeral only to get the shock of his life. The dead body had disappeared from the coffin. When the neighbors got together to look for the body, they found the 'dead woman' sitting on a stool in her kitchen and cooking food.

She told her neighbors that she had just woken up from a long sleep and was famished and hence she was cooking some food for herself.

Smartphones are better than sex and chocolate: survey

BRITAIN: Smartphones are indeed dearer to Brits than sex and chocolate.

About 63 per cent of British population are ready to give up chocolate and 33 per cent would gladly give up sex, rather than give up their favourite gadget, reveals The Sun. The numbers were revealed by Vodafone's Vittorio Colao ay a press conference recently.

Girl, 18 commits suicide over severe acne issues

BRITAIN: An exceptional student who attended a grammar school in Britain recently committed suicide. The 18-year-old was suffering from depression after developing severe acne on her face and upper body.

The girl started suffering from the problem when she turned 14. She was prescribed medication for her condition but the same pills have been responsible for a number of cases of depression and suicide, reports Daily Mail.

This was not her first attempt at suicide. She had tried ending her life in August 2009 the day before her AS-level results were due.

She was kept under observation by mental health services but she took the drastic step again and this time she succeeded. The court was told that those who were supposed to look after her, let her down.

Her body was found in April 2010, seven months after her last appointment with a psychiatrist. Her sessions were discontinued because the health expert went on leave and no one else was ready to take her case.

The brilliant student could have been saved if she was was given better care, a psychiatrist told the court.