A mechanic says he was driving a Porsche back to its owner when he swerved to avoid a truck and smashed head-first into a telephone pole. Mechanic Chris Numme says he destroyed the $500,000 limited edition Porsche Carrera GT after doing minor body work on the vehicle.

Jaguar's chief designer Ian Callum has revealed that British actress Kate Winslet's body is the inspiration of Jaguar's new sports car, XK. Winslet told talk host show Jay Leno that he had "Decided that I, for whatever reason, was his ideal woman. So I guess he was inspired by the shape of my body, which is kind of flattering. "

The United Kingdom's Deed Poll Service has said that a 23-year-old James Bond Fan has a 69-word name, which is the longest in the country. David Fearn has changed his name, to all 21 official 007 film titles.

Krzysztof Kononowicz, the 43-year-old Polish man who is running for mayor of the city of Bialystok is becoming an internet superstar. A video of Kononowicz's political ad has reached 3 million hits on YouTube. com, eclipsing the clip of Britney Spears divorcing her husband via text message.

According to a Japanese newspaper, a young man entered a noodle bar in the western Japanese city of Osaka on Wednesday, ordered noodles, slurped them down, and then held the restaurant up with a knife demanding a local waitress hand over all the cash from the register. After obtaining the loot, the robber paid the waitress for his meal and even waited long enough to receive his change before leaving. The suspect is still at large. The police have not specified whether the assailant left the waitress a generous tip.