More than 51 million drivers are expected to hit the roads this holiday season, a 1. 7 percent increase from last year. And although gasoline prices are up, transportation analysts expect record traffic on the nation's highways and airports as Christmas approaches. In many states, like Massachusetts, police will crack down on holiday drunks behind the wheel.

University of Missouri-Columbia mathematics professor Steve Hofmann is receiving significant recognition for completing a 40-year math problem. "It was one of the biggest open problems in my field and everybody thought it was too hard and wouldn't be solved. I had toyed with it for years and then put in three years of very serious work before hitting the key breakthrough. "

The authoritarian president of Turkmenistan has ordered a ban on lip synching performances across the tightly controlled Central Asian nation, citing "a negative effect on the development of singing and musical art," his office says Tuesday. President Saparmurat has outlawed opera and ballet and railed against long hair and gold teeth in the past, reports The Associated Press.

Ernest Demar Boyd, 32, has been charged with breaking into a woman's house and falling asleep in her bed. The robber/burglar broke into the home of the Arnold, Pennsylvania woman and fell asleep on her bed.