Police are now looking for two inmates who chipped their way out through an 18-inch hole of the high-security Union County jail in New Jersey, leaving behind a "Happy Holidays" note complete with a smiley. Jose Espinosa, 20, and Otis Blunt, 32, who are considered armed and dangerous, used a long metal wire to scrape away mortar around the cinder block between their cells and in the outer wall in Espinosa's cell, police said.

South Korean scientists said that after altering genes and cloning the cats, they made the cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays. The experiment may be counted as one of the big steps towards using the genetic technology for the modification of human genes to cure diseases, according to the Science and Technology Ministry.

Police arrested seven people on Tuesday for selling metal bracelets they falsely claimed said improved blood flow. According to Japan Today, among those arrested were the 60-year-old president of a Tokyo-based health appliances company selling the bracelets and his six former employees.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center say that the function of the frequently discarded appendix is to produce and protects good germs for your gut. This theory is explained in an online edition of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. According to the study, there are massive amounts of bacteria in the human digestive system. Most of it is good and helps digest food. But sometimes this bacteria dies off or is purged from the intestines. When the diseases such as cholera or dysentery cause bacterial purging, the bacteria in the appendix are safely harbored. According to the researchers, the appendix's job is to "reboot" the digestive system when that happens.

A 25-year-old British women in Austria has given birth to a set of identical triplets, something that only happens in one out of 200 million births. Mae Christina Astley gave birth to three girls she called Amy, Kim and Zoe by Caesarean in western Austria Monday.