<B>Check-out woman hits self on head, claims robbery</B>

A German supermarket check-out worker stashed the day?s takings into her shoes and hit herself over the head, pretending she had been held up and attacked by a robber, Bavarian police said on Thursday. The 26 year-old woman told police she was alone in the south German store when a masked man forced her at gun-point to fill his pockets and several bags with money from the shop?s cash box before knocking her unconscious with a blow to her head. Police became suspicious after medical examinations revealed the woman?s head injury didn?t match up to her description of the attack. The woman then confessed she had hit herself on the head with a blunt object and stolen the money to pay off debts.

<B>Man learns he?s dead, thanks to blind ex-wife</B>

A Russian taxi driver got a rude shock when he discovered his blind ex-wife, who thought he had died in an explosion, had him buried in a Moscow cemetery, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Oleg Lunkov learned of his apparent death when he applied for a passport and was told he died in a bomb blast on Moscow?s metro on February 6. His ex-wife thought he was on the train, but being blind, she got her mother to identify the remains. I thought, ?I hope they didn?t bury me on my birthday,? Lunkov told the Moscow Times after visiting his grave in southeastern Moscow. ?But it turns out they did.?

The grave has been exhumed by police investigating his wife for possible fraud. Lunkov?s name still appears on prosecutors? official list of the 38 people who died in the explosion.