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Family sues over used condom in hotel room

LAS VEGAS, July 21 (UPI) -- A Scottish couple claims their 5-year-old daughter found a used condom in the made-up bed in her Las Vegas hotel room.

Gerald and Jacqueline Kilcoyne have filed a lawsuit against Caesar's Palace, the Web site The Smoking Gun reports. In court papers, the Kilcoynes say that their daughter, Caitlin, not only found the rubber but put it in her mouth.

The couple want the casino resort to pay for medical tests and treatment for Caitlin after the July 2004 incident. The Kilcoynes' complaint says that the whole family suffered "shock, horror, fear, anxiety and distress."

Mutual insults no crime, court says

ROME, July 21 (UPI) -- The highest court in Italy has ruled that cursing someone back is no crime.

The Court of Cassation ruled in favor of a woman who called someone a "bastard, fool, a cretin and a drug addict," ruling that both parties had been tossing insults. In a similar case in March, the court ruled that a woman who used a racial epithet to a co-worker had been retaliating for insults about her family.

In the new case, the judges ordered the man who brought the case to pay about $630 in costs.

"There was justification for the crime," the judges said.

FAA says ice ball may be airplane related

ROSCOE, Ill., July 21 (UPI) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has said a basketball-sized chunk of ice that crashed through the roof of a Roscoe, Ill., home may have come from a plane.

FAA investigators examined the ice, which had crashed Wednesday into the home of Rick and Mary Lindstedt, and took pictures of the hole it created, the Rockford (Ill.) Register-Star reported Thursday.

Although the ice was clear, the FAA said, and not the blue color of water from a plane's waste system, the ice might still have come from a plane.

"If it came from a plane, there could have been some sort of leak that froze while the plane was flying at high altitude," Elizabeth Isham Cory, a spokeswoman in the FAA's Chicago office, told the newspaper. "And then when it descended, the ice melted and fell off."

However, some FAA officials said the ice could have been a "megacryometeor," an ice ball that experts believe is formed as a result of global warming. The occurrence has been reported in Spain and Ohio, the Register-Star reported.

Rare, stolen monkey found alive and well

LONDON, July 21 (UPI) -- Sponge Bob, the rare Bolivian squirrel monkey reportedly stolen from a Chessington, England, zoo, is back home safe and unharmed.

The 2-year-old monkey was taken from the Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey in an apparently well-planned raid Sunday night.

He was found playing with children in a housing estate in South London on Wednesday, the Times of London said.

Brixton police returned him to the zoo where he spent the morning with a vet, police said, "a bit stressed but OK."