Google has become a household name. It's a noun �C the most popular search engine on the Internet �C and it's a verb �C "Just Google it." Now in China it's also a popular brand of toilet paper!

Whether or not it's actually named after the popular search engine created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page is clearly up for debate, one can't deny just how humorous the packaging is.

While clearly not a bonafide Google product, it's only a matter of time before Google takes over the world and introduces us to the Google Bidet, Google Spontaneous Combustion Engine, and Google Tennis Shoes.

In the end, the image of 'google toilet paper' is a clear indicator of just how popular the term has become and how far reaching the influence of the word Google really is.

So if you are searching for toilet paper you can now 'google' it!

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With the Year of the Tiger fast approaching, tiger items are hot sellers, and the Changsha Zoo in Hunan Province is cashing by offering genuine tiger whiskers as lucky tokens to ward off evil, "especially for drivers and children" according to a zoo blackboard notice.

The whiskers are not cut or plucked from the beasts, said a zoo employee, but are collected after being shed.

Fifteen-centimeter whiskers are being sold for 100 yuan (around $14.00 US dollars) while shorter, thinner ones range from 50 to 30 yuan.

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A Beijing woman has survived falling from the 18th floor of a block of flats after landing on a bush and bouncing into a snowdrift.

The woman was hanging out washing on her balcony early one morning when she slipped and fell, reports the 'Beijing Times'.

Doctors say she only survived the estimated 200ft fall because it was broken by the bush, the snow and her padded jacket.

She was found lying in five inches of snow by a man who was out walking his dog and who raised the alarm.

Amazed doctors at Peking University Third Hospital treated her for multiple fractures but say she will survive.

Prof Zhang says she would have been falling at more than 60mph by the time she hit the bush.

"It would have been devastating if she had hit the ground direct. Thanks to the bush, the snow and her jacket, her fall was cushioned," he said.

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A newly trained hypnotist accidentally put himself into a trance for five hours while practising in front of a mirror.

Helmut Kichmeier, 27, was found by wife, Joanna, staring into thin air in their north London home, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Mr Kichmeier, whose stage name is Hannibal Helmurto, had learned to put himself into a trance to help him swallow swords on stage.

He had been taught the skill by hypnotherapist Dr Ray Roberts to assist in a new act for the Circus of Horrors show.

But as he practiced the skill in front of the mirror at 10am he set himself into a deep sleep until 3pm, when he was found by his wife.

It was only after she phoned Dr Roberts and put the receiver to Mr Kichmeier's head that he was able to be talked out of the trance.

Mrs Kichmeier says her husband looked just like a zombie when she came into the room to find him.

She said: "I tried to ask him what was wrong but he didn't answer and it was then I looked at the sofa behind him and saw a book named 'Hypnosis Medicine of the Mind'.