<B> Italy. Husband commits suicide, then wife wakes from coma. </B> An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into a coma, but just hours after he killed himself the woman woke up, Italian media reported on Saturday. Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife?s bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home. Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him.

<B> OKLAHOMA. Former judge charged with indecent exposure. </B> A former state judge, who allegedly used a sex toy called a penis pump in court, was charged with three felony counts of indecent exposure by Oklahoma authorities on Thursday. Former Judge Donald Thompson, 58, pleaded not guilty in the Creek County District Court in the northeastern Oklahoma town of Sapulpa. If convicted, Thompson could face up to 10 years in prison for each count. At the courthouse on Thursday, Thompson was taken to a backroom where he provided a DNA sample to authorities. Last year, a court reporter was fired after she said she saw the judge masturbate and use the penis pump during hearings. Other witnesses claimed they saw him use the pump in court.

<B> PRAGUE. This has to be Homer Simpson... </B> A Czech man is being taken to court after he hid in a restaurant washroom until the employees had left and then hooked up beer kegs directly to his mouth. Cleaning staff found him drunk and lying on the floor of the bar at the restaurant in the city of Brno, about 200 km east of Prague, the CTK news agency reported on Thursday. The man will be charged with damaging property because he caused 8,000 crown ($340) damage to the beer cooling box.