Do you want to increase your chances of winning the lottery in Britain? Then you should strongly consider moving in the southern part of the country. Figures released by the U. K. lottery showed that areas in the south have the highest percentage of winning.

Villagers in the remote town of Koh Sireh in Thailand believe that a banana tree is capable of predicting the winning numbers in lottery. People from as far as Phattalung, Phang Nga and Krabi, Thailand have been trooping to the village to pay visit and respect to the banana tree. Some were hoping to be given the winning numbers of the lottery, while some are paying respect, claiming that the tree gave them fortune by giving them winning numbers.

New Jersey police got a call from a frantic man stuck in a garbage truck Thursday. Police reached him just as the truck was about to compact its load. The man said he was looking for returnable bottles in garbage cans when he accidentally fell asleep in one of them. The truck picked him up and he awoke amongst the trash.

A couple from Shieffield, England who won nearly $15 million from lottery, have been advised not to be too generous with their money. According to a report by BBC, the couple, Ray and Barbara Wragg, won a total of $14. 99 million on the lottery in 2000 and have decided to give away some $11. 8 million from their fortune.

A Romanian woman is threatening to sue a local priest after receiving the remains of her dead father by post after a cemetery was sold to developers. A report by ananova. com says Aurelia Cenusa from Severin, Romania was informed of the clergy in her father's hometown of Darvari, some 300 miles away, that the graveyard where her father was buried, has been sold and his body exhumed.