One for sorrow, two for joy

Over to the land of fairy tales and North Korean State news agency KCNA have announced that on the very day their Great Leader Kim Jong Il passed way, "out of nowhere a flock of magpies suddenly appeared hovering over a statue of his late father, Kim Il Sung, clattering as if they were telling him of the sad news"

The same news agency also reported last week that a family of bears believed to be mother and cubs, normally hibernating at this time of the year like all good bears should be, had in fact been seen crying woefully by a roadside mourning the Great Leaders' passing.