Authorities said Monday that a 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed because he was still not ready to go back to school after the Christmas vacation. "I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school. I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun," the boy Diego told AFP.

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.

Vienna is slated to host what is considered to be the world's first "divorce fair' on October 27-28, with couples who want to opt out of their marriages able to meet with lawyers, consult with experts, and tackle how to best end their respective relationships. So far, some 20 exhibitors, including lawyers, mediators, life-crisis experts, private detective firms, and DNA laboratory representatives offering paternity tests have all signed up for the two-day event.

Christmas won't be the same for one Concord, New Hampshire family that has been ordered to bury the mummified baby the family has passed down to relatives for 90 years. Relatives have kept the dead baby on top of a bureau and honored Baby John at holidays with cards and gifts. One year the stillborn infant was given, appropriately enough, a dried pet fish, relatives say.

Two Jewish congregants who work in advertising and marketing came out with an idea to auction on EBay two lifetime front-row seats to services at a synagogue in time for the Jewish high holidays. The initial bidding starts at $1. 8 million. The winning bidder will have the privilege of getting up front with the rabbi. Their family name will be engraved on Seats 1 and 2 of Row 1, Section DD, at Temple Emanu-El. In addition to that, the winning bidder will get two free parking slots, two custom-made prayer shawls and yarmulkes and a big tax write-off. Also, the lucky winner can pass the seats on to his or her children and grandchildren.