According to an estimate of the National Phobics Society, more than four million people suffer from 'toilet phobia' in Britain. National Phobics Society has has launched a campaign to create awareness of this phobia. It revealed that the problem remains 'secret' due to the stigma attached to it.

Police are searching for an unknown man accused of telling women they have a tick on them to get them to strip. Police say the man goes to businesses where women from the ages of 17 to 30 are working alone, such as tanning salons and small retail establishments, to carry out the scheme. According to Waukesha Police Sgt. John Konkol, he has told women at at least seven businesses that they have a tick on their clothes and should take them off to find it.

A Bosnian convict escaped from an Austrian prison by wrapping himself in a large parcel and posted himself to freedom. Authorities identify the escaped prisoner as Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36 who was convicted for seven years for robbery. He was detained in the Karlau prison, near Graz in Austria.

A three-year-old boy named Jack Neal reportedly used his mother's computer to buy a Ł9,000 ($17,067. 34) car on Internet auction site eBay. The boy's parents discovered their son's successful bid when they received a message from eBay about the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro. His mother Rachel Neal, 36, told the Sun, "We couldn't understand what was happening. Neither of us had bought anything. So we checked and saw it was a Barbie-pink car which we'd bought for Ł8,999. We flew into a panic. "

A group is calling on California State University (CSU) system students to design a 30-second commercial to help defeat Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, calling him "a total disaster. " According to the site, FlunkArnold. com, you must be a CSU student to enter an anti-Arnold video or website.