– Only about twenty Siberian white cranes remain in the wild. If they don’t migrate soon, it could be bad for them. To encourage them to migrate to their winter habitat, Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to lead them in a hang glider. This is not an Onion headline.

The stunt-prone Russian president will personally pilot a motorized hang glider during a stopover in the far north of the country this week on his way to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in Vladivostok.

There are only 20 Siberian white cranes left in the world. Putin will lead a group of the birds on the first leg of their 5,000-kilometer migration, and, if all goes to plan, they will spend the winter in central Asia.

– The FBI has accused a clerk for a federal district court of leaking sealed indictment information to Armenian street gangs.

– Proving the adage that there can be too much of a good thing, a nurse in England suffered an injury in a fall eleven years ago that caused “a medical condition in which she is constantly aroused.” As it turns out, having more than one hundred orgasms a day for more than a decade can be quite debilitating:

Even the slightest pelvic movement – on a train, in a car, doing domestic chores – can trigger a climax, but the sheer volume has left her tired, in pain and unable to have a normal relationship.

That sounds very bad.

– A college sophomore in Ohio allegedly threatened to slap a cop “across the face with his penis” when the cop confronted him about suspected public urination. He was reportedly drunk which, at least when I was in college, seemed to excuse nearly any sort of boorish behavior (at least in the mind of the drunk person.) (h/t to Bob for this one)

Photo credit: ‘Schneekranich Grus leucogeranus 090501 We 147’ by BS Thurner Hof (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.