About 700,000 people in Australia told police they should not be fined for speeding because they were not driving the car at the time. Hundreds of them also listed dead people as the actual drivers. After launching an investigation, police found that hundreds of people named the same dead man from West Sydney or they blamed drivers from out of state for speeding in their vehicles to avoid fines.

Prince Charles recently responded to a child's request of growing more trees on his street. The royal honored the schoolboy's plea for help by arranging for more trees to be planted in his neighborhood and at his nearby school. Harvey Cobb, seven, wrote to the royal to complain about the lack of foliage in his street after his head teacher Val Watkins asked her students to write to a famous person about an environmental issue.

If your last name is Jones, you missed out on the biggest gala ever held in your honor yesterday. Over 1,200 Joneses gathered Friday in Cardiff to break the world record for the largest assembly of people with the same name. Gaggles of Joneses flocked to the Wales Millennium Centre for the event, dubbed "Jones, Jones, Jones".

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.

Vanda Jones, who keeps on forgetting the birthdays of her five children, has decided to have the dates permanently tattooed on her arm. The housewife, from Penygroes, near Caernarfon, said, "Whenever I took my kids to the health clinic, I could never remember their birthdays off the top of my head, so I had their initials and date of birth tattooed on my arms.