An Australian prisoner underwent a crash diet and successfully wiggled himself out of jail. He was nabbed again three days later. Robert Cole, 37, did not eat and consumed laxatives to shed around 30 pounds. He was able to squeeze through a hole that he fashioned with a butter knife and flee from a hospital in a Sydney maximum security prison.

An Australian man who lives under a Sydney flight path was recently shocked by a bolt from the blue. The incident happened when a 6-inch stainless steel bolt from an airliner flying past his home, crashed through his roof. Hearing the bang, an astounded Angelo Margiotta called the fire brigade and a firefighter found the bolt that had smashed two roof tiles and was lodged in the ceiling.

A former Miss Universe title holder who previously accepted an invitation from a teenage boy for a date for his school dance only to call it off later, finally made up for her misdeed by visiting the spurned boy in his school. Jennifer Hawkins, a former Australian beauty queen-turned TV presenter, initially agreed to be 17-year-old Daniel Dibley's partner to the end-of-year dance at Bathurst High School, west of Sydney.

Some parents made a fuss after their children saw a nude sculpture during a school-approved field trip. Now an award-winning teacher has been terminated. Attorney for Sydney McGee, an art teacher at Fisher Elementary School for 28 years, said not only did the principal urge her to take 89 fifth graders to the Dallas museum she also collected parent permission slips for the students.

One Australian teenager finds out that dreams can come true. Daniel Dibley, 17, wrote to Miss Universe 2004 when he needed a partner for the school dance in the Australian country town of Bathurst, west of Sydney.