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.

A mother of five in Wales who has a hard time keeping herself posted on her kids' birthdays has decided on the best way to remind herself of her kids' natal days. She's decided to have the dates tattooed on her arm. Vanda Jones, 49, beamingly said she now knows exactly when to buy presents and cards for Alwen, 18, Grace, 16, Rhian, 14, Lowri, 13, and 12-year-old Vernon.

Fourteen year-old Carl Griffiths of Trimsaran, near Llanelli, Wales can no longer play rugby because his feet have grown so big that he can't find boots to fit in. Griffiths, who has beaten leukemia, said the chemotherapy and steroid treatment used to battle the disease has caused his feet to grow by as large as 17 inches.

A 57-year-old man from Wrexham, North Wales said he has the most boring job in Britain but he loves it. According to the Daily Mirror, Keith Jackson's job is to spend his whole day to watch a paint dry. He stares at the painted floor's surface for hours, and occasionally prodding it with his finger to see how fast it is drying.