TODAY takes a look at Republican Gov. Jan Brewer?s awkward and uncomfortable appearance during her opening statement at a political debate. (Today Show)

This latest example of all-too-human behavior, originally posted on LiveLeaks, became the subject of international outrage this week, hot on the heels of the "Cat Bin Lady of Britain."

Sex is banned in space.

Alan Poindexter, a NASA commander who was speaking while on a visit to Tokyo, revealed getting it on is a big no-no for astronauts visiting the International Space Station.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army has stepped in to help its soldiers find love.

While members of the 2.3 million-person army previously relied on internet dating while they were stationed in remote posts, this has now been banned after commanders became worried the single soldiers would let confidential information slip.

A man from China is to swim 750 miles to promote the benefits of a low-carbon lifestyle.

Bao Zhengbin, 56, of the country's Wuhan Hubei province will swim approximately 25 miles each day, travelling along the Changjiang River to visit Shanghai's World Expo.

A group of mice have been taught how to surf by an Australian boat builder.

Shane Wilmott, 39, has been teaching the creatures to ride the waves for 25 years and has now built miniature replicas of life-sized surf boards for the rodents to practice on.

A Canadian woman won't face charges after flashing her breasts at a young boy in a bid to settle a noise dispute.

Marika De Florio says she decided to go topless because the five-year-old lad was driving her crazy with his noise outside her home and hoped it would mean his grandparents would bring him inside.

A US diner has started serving lion burgers as part of a World Cup treat.

The soccer tournament is currently being held in South Africa so the Il Vinaio restaurant in Arizona has paid tribute to it by serving the tasty treat along with its homemade fries and corn on the cob.

A tree shaped like the female sex organ that also helps people to win loads of cash.

A recent story from a Thai newspaper told the supposed tale of this tree, shaped like spread legs complete with a vagina in the middle, and how it helped locals win big on the lottery.

A lot of media organizations fell for it, and I can't blame them.

After all, if it was true, it would have been just one Elvis sighting away from being the ultimate weird news story. I would have flown to Thailand myself to visit the tree, and pose for a series of comical (if not very original) photos with it.

But my friend David Moye is skeptical... and put Richard Rubacher, an expatriate writer living in Bangkok, on the case.

And Rubacher says it just ain't so... which turns this story into the weird news equivalent of a fake orgasm.

Read the whole story at AOL News.

Uncredited photo from the Phuket Gazette

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But camel-mania doesn't end with chocolates... now, all your favorite household products can come in one hump, or two.

I've seen everything from camel milk to camel milk yogurt and even camel milk soap -- and that brings me to the funniest, humpiest headlines this week at Fark.com:

Camel milk expected on European shelves next year. Promoters claim it makes great sheiks

Tiger Woods divorce settlement becomes the most expensive 18 holes he's ever played

Two-foot-long alligator found hiding under NYC car. It was apparently subletting it for $1500 a month

Estimates show that there would be fewer jobs and larger deficits under the Republicans' plan. Republicans say that's impossible, they don't have a plan

Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day. I cut down trees, I rob some banks, I go to the lavatory. On Friday I'm arrested, and charged with a felon

Photo © Al Nassma Chocolate LLC

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Somehow, the kids -- ages 8, 9 and 10 -- are in good condition... but mother Alison Alsbrooks Scurry was arrested and charged with three counts of unlawful conduct toward a child.

"She basically stated that the situation became one where she was overwhelmed as a single parent trying to work and kind of do it all," Melissa Addison of the Sumter County Sheriff's Office told WISTV.

That's not just parenting... that's Bad Parenting.

It's also worthy of the Weird Crime Mug Shot Hall of Shame.

Photo © Sumter County Sheriff's Department

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The stars of bodypainting festivals aren't just the artists who create living works on naked women... they're the nude models who cover their bodies in paint, turning themselves into fantastic creations.

And they want you to look.

The 2010 Daegu International Bodypainting Festival just wrapped up in Korea, and I've added some of my favorite images -- from petal-covered breasts to a bizarre clown across a woman's belly -- to my favorite gallery: World Bodypainting Festivals.

Don't worry. It's art.

Photo © Getty Images

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But Roger Clemens is facing some high heat courtesy of the U.S. Congress and Department of Justice.

This photo was taken during his arraignment on Monday on perjury and obstruction of Congress charges... but it looks like he had enough time to keep his highlights going, or whatever those specks on his hair are called.

During the short proceedings, Clemens spoke just four words: "Not guilty, your honor."

And then he signed some autographs, and took off for a round of golf.

If convicted, he wouldn't be the first World Series hero to fall down to a zero -- baseball's biggest stage has also been home to some of the sport's most notorious criminals.

See Jim Leyritz, Kenny Rogers, Joba Chamberlain and more in my gallery, World Series Mug Shot Hall of Shame.

Photo © U.S. Department of Justice

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