A Staten Island teenager received $1200 as a reward for returning an envelope filled with money. Yousry Desooky, found almost $12,000 in cash in the men's room of La Fiesta Restaurant in West New York, New Jersey with a note "For Tahir: $11,875" written on the outside.

A 13-year-old teenager has reportedly discovered a 2. 93-carat diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. Nicole Ruhter's diamond is a tea-colored broken pyramid shaped with several imperfections, but the to-be-eighth grader is happy to have found one. "I was kind of praying to God. I was saying, 'I don't care if it's worth whatever it's worth, I don't care if it's a tiny little sliver of something, I just want something,'" she told the AP of her find. "Ten minutes later, I just found it. "

A 17-year-old Japanese high school student turned himself over to authorities along with the head of who he claims to be his mother. The teen admitted to killing his mother while she was sleeping during the eve of her 47th birthday. The Japanese teenager brought the police to his house located in Aizuwakamatsu city and showed a beheaded body in his apartment. He added, "It didn't matter who I killed. "

Nicole Matisse is 19 years old and by the time she is 20 she would have already completed her bachelor's. Although it is not uncommon to earn a graduation degree at that age, it is the time period - just one year - that Matisse would need to achieve it. After entering as a junior in the University of Michigan last fall with 19 credits in her hand, Matisse earned 27 more by winter and is set to take 34 more by summer.

A 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl won $25,000 after typing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" on her cell phone in less time than 200 other competitors in a text-messaging competition. Morgan Pozgar typed the Disney classic's "biggest word I ever heard" in only 15 seconds, beating out the former national text-messaging champ, 21-year-old Eli Tirosh of Los Angeles. Morgan, who estimated she sends more than 8,000 text messages every month, described her phone as "pretty worn in," according to UPI.