In a yet another effort to upgrade the city's image before the 2008 Olympic Games, authorities in Beijing have barred women cabbies to not to dye their hair red and their male counterparts from growing their hair long. The bans on the city's taxi drivers are a part wider effort by the authorities who perceive the Olympic Games as an opportunity to display splendid Chinese culture and its residents' positive attitudes. In the recent effort, authorities have listed out as many as 12 not-to-do's for the city's cabbies. These include: greeting passengers without politeness, avoid smoking, spitting, wearing heavy and jewelry and brushing teeth after eating garlic among others.

Police in Dandre Turk's jail cell in Canton, Ohio discovered a diamond ring worth $30,000 from a toilet after they suspected a man of swallowing it. Four men from 18 to 22 years of age from Detroit were charged Wednesday for robbery in a jewelry store near Canton. The police had to keep a close watch on their movements after they believed one of them could have swallowed the two-carat diamond ring.

Fans of the supposedly infinite number "pi" are celebrating international pi day as they express their love for the string of trillions of digits. The day to celebrate the number event falls appropriately on March 14 or 3. 14, the approximated value of "pi. " Furthermore, the time for the event has been derived from the third and fourth digits after the decimal in the value of pi, i. e. , 1:59 p. m. As per the saying that celebrations can't go without any food and fun, the pi-themed foods and rap performances will be add to the geekiness of the event.

A diamond worth $25,000 was found stuck in a shower drain at a California prison. A prisoner there is suspected of stealing the two carat colorless diamond two years ago. Bret Allen Langford, 39, is accused of asking the owner of a jewelry store to show him the diamond in April 2005 and then sped away. Police arrested Langford, but never found the diamond.

A two-carat diamond has been found nearly two years after a man nabbed it from a jewelry store. The catch: the colorless stone which is estimated to be worth $25,000 has been found stuck in the shower drain at the same prison where the man accused of stealing it was serving his sentence. Bret Allen Langford, 39, was arrested in April 2005 for stealing the diamond at a Jewelry Express store. The diamond had never been recovered, until this week, when an investigator representing Langford told jail officials to search the jailhouse drains.