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Vonnie Daykin in Nottinghamshire, U.K., has reported a pothole that appeared a couple years ago to the city, but they say it's not big enough to fix. So she celebrated its second birthday, with cake.

For 21 years the king of the Netherlands has been leading a double life. He told De Telegraaf he occasionally takes a break from his royal duties to pilot a small plane for a Dutch airline.

In Japan over the weekend, little ones dressed in sumo outfits were held up on a stage by sumo wrestlers. The infrants' cries are supposed to drive out demons and protect them from troubles.

A man in Australia gave his girlfriend a necklace with an engagement ring hidden inside. After he proposed, she said "yes" and called him an "idiot" for not realizing she could have lost the ring.

Israel's Labor Party moved its election date because it coincided with a Britney Spears concert in Tel Aviv. They said they feared extra traffic and a lack of enough security guards for both events.

The Rhode Island Department of Revenue mistakenly mailed out duplicate tax refund checks. The extra checks went to about 500 people and total more than $360,000. But only one of each can be cashed.

Scientists named a silky ant species from Venezuela: Sericomyrmex Radioheadi. The website Phys.org reports the scientists wanted to honor members of the band Radiohead for their conservation work.

A Massachusetts man representing himself in court is accused of robbing a convenience store. His defense is that he's a clown and was joking around. The judge denied his request to juggle in court.

Also: Australia will deny passports to pedophiles; a Portland, Ore. man will appear in court today on murder and harassment charges in a train attack; and the Scripps National Spelling Bee opens.

The incident happened over the weekend at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The man left behind a backpack with some papers inside. The incident is being investigated.