Some passengers reeling from add-on fees being charged on commercial flights for things such as pillows, water and extra bags might feel like the air lines have them coming and going and that was before budget air line Ryanair proposed charging to use toilets on its planes.

Ryanair is Europe's largest budget air line and last week it announced it was eliminating check-in desks to cut costs, people have to check-in online.

More Britons continued to rely on technology to lose weight as the United Kingdom went on with its battle against obesity. Date from the National Health Service said stomach stapling and other surgical procedures went up in 2008 by 40 percent.

While it permitted overweight Britons to shed pounds, it drained NHS budget. Last year, 2,724 stomach stapling or bariatric surgeries were performed on obese Britons, mostly women, and paid by taxpayers. The previous year the number of U.K. residents who went through the same procedure totaled 1,951.

An airplane of Philippine budget carrier Cebu Pacific got stuck in the runway of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Wednesday morning, delaying or cancelling domestic and international flights.

Candice Lyog, spokesperson for Cebu Pacific, said the A320 aircraft was on its way to General Santos, in southern Philippines, when its rear left wheel sank about five-inches deep into a still soft asphalt portion of the runway.

A San Francisco assemblyman introduced legislation to make California the first state in the nation to tax and regulate recreational marijuana in the same way as alcohol.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano says it is time to reap state revenue from what is arguably the biggest cash crop in California to help stem the burgeoning budget crisis.

As the budget tightens for many U.S. households, more Americans are dropping the landline in favor of cellphones. The proof of this is a report from the Bureau of Labor which said that in 2007, for the first time, spending for mobile units exceeded that for landlines.

According to data from the bureau, 55 percent of all consumer telephone expenditures two years ago were for mobile phone, and landlines got a 43 percent share. A measly 2 percent went to phone cards and pagers.