The Terror-Free Oil Initiative plans to open a Terror-Free gas station in February to help stop American money from going to terrorism, the group says. The first terror-free gas station is planned to open in Omaha, Neb. on Feb. 1 with a grand opening to follow on Feb. 12.

Women today are taking extreme measures to look young and opting for anti-wrinkle treatments. However, many beauticians take advantage of this fact and use cheap products on their customers to earn profits. A California beautician was sentenced to 15 years in prison following a death of her client after she injected cooking oil into her client instead of "French polymer" agent that promised to reduce wrinkles. Martha Mata Vasquez, 39, injected Mazola corn oil into the buttocks of clients and charged up to $1,400 for each procedure. The 46-year-old victim Maria Olivia Castillo died in November 2005 of multiple organ failure caused by a fat blockage brought about by a cooking oil injection.

In a strange case of jailbreak, a Lithuanian prisoner in an Arctic Norway jail literally slipped out of custody by stripping naked, smearing his body with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars. According to Svein-Erik Jacobsen, operation leader for the Oest-Finnmark Police District, "He slipped through the bars on Christmas Eve. " The strange method used for jailbreak was a subject of national news in Norway on Wednesday.

Traveling salesman Peter Gilbert from Wisconsin, has donated his car to the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford after clocking up a million miles. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Gilbert bought the Saab 900 SPG 17 years ago immediately after his divorce. Since then, the loyal and reliable car has been with him and had notched up 1,001,385 miles and survived eight deer collisions.

A factory in China has been shut down and its manager arrested after it was found to have been selling lard to the public, made from grease that came from garbage, among other things. Ying Fuming, a manager at the Fanchang Grease Factory in Taizhou, was arrested after he used grease from such inedible things as swill, sewage, pesticides and recycled industrial oil to make lard for human consumption.