* Protest leaders in Bangkok--who are opposed to the 2006 military coup that ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on grounds of corruption, and are urging Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve the country's parliament--have vowed to collect blood from tens of thousands of their fellow anti-government activists and pour it onto Thai government headquarters as a symbolic sacrifice to drive home the magnitude of their desire for new elections. About 100,000 "Red Shirt" protesters converged on Bangkok on Sunday; when Vejjajiva did not agree to their demands, protest leaders said they would collect 1 million cubic centimeters (264 gallons, or 1,000 liters) of protesters' blood to spill at Government House by Tuesday evening. The Red Cross has decried the idea as wasteful and unhygienic.
* In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a bonobo mother ate some of her dead two-year-old daughter's corpse. Another female bonobo later stole and ate the corpse. This was the first recorded case of bonobo cannibalism. "Among apes, such behaviour is extremely rare, only being reported before among orangutans, and never by bonobos, our closest relative alongside chimps. Though uncommon, the behaviour may not be aberrant, says the scientist who witnessed it. But it does further challenge a widely perceived notion that bonobos are an especially 'peaceful' ape species." (BBC Earth News)
* The official state beverage of New York is milk.
* Rielle Hunter, mistress to former Senator John Edwards and mother of a daughter with Edwards, agreed to a tell-all interview and accompanying photo spread in GQ magazine. Upon seeing the lewd results of the photo shoot, she told Barbara Walters that she found the photos "repulsive" and that she "cried for two hours." Hunter says that her first words to Edwards were, "You're so hot," and that the two wound up in his hotel room hours later.
* At a Gloucestershire wildfowl sanctuary, researchers were stunned when two swans--an animal long romanticized for its tendency to "mate for life"--divorced. The two swans returned to the sanctuary after an annual migration to arctic Russia, each with a new partner.