Tours at a 163-year-old home-turned-museum are sometimes disrupted by a grumpy groundhog. The furry critter’s digging has foiled some of the Saginaw Valley Historic Preservation Society’s attempts to refurbish the house on the city’s east side.
“We put in a walkway, and part of that collapsed due to Grumpy’s efforts,” preservationist Thomas Mudd told The Saginaw [...]

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His lottery ticket was a $1,000 winner, but police have seized it saying it was bought with proceeds from an illegal drug sale.  Michael David, who had been staying at an Ellsworth motel, sold four 10-milligram methadone pills for $15 each last week, Police Chief John Deleo said. He then went to a convenience store [...]

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His lottery ticket was a $1,000 winner, but police have seized it saying it was bought with proceeds from an illegal drug sale.  Michael David, who had been staying at an Ellsworth motel, sold four 10-milligram methadone pills for $15 each last week, Police Chief John Deleo said. He then went to a convenience store [...]

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British condom maker Futura Medical Plc said on Thursday that results of a study showed its new condom helped men have firmer and bigger erections, as well as a longer-lasting sexual experience.
Shares in the company, which specializes in sexual healthcare and pain relief, rose 14.5 percent to 59.25 pence on hopes the condom, which will [...]

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The house is for sale well below its assessed value, has four bedrooms and sits on more than a half acre of land. It’s also got lots of vultures, and that’s made it a tough sell.
The trees around the Hopkinton house are a year-round nesting ground for turkey and black vultures. The previous owners blamed [...]

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A Belgian postman who lightened his mailbag by holding back thousands of letters and packages at home for up to five years now faces dismissal.
“What was strange in this case was that he kept them all in his flat and that, while he opened a lot, he appears to have left the contents in the [...]

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Police called to investigate a supermarket theft were surprised to discover the culprit had left his contact details with a shop assistant.
The 30-year-old thief, who was born in Liverpool, England, passed a note to the assistant which read in German: “Call the police, I’ve just stolen,” a spokesman for the police in the town of [...]

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In Spokane Washington,  they made a list, but they should have checked it twice.  In a December newsletter to the families of elementary school students, Spokane Public
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Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. “We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen,” said Melissa McIntire, 23. “There’s a lot of relief involved.” The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is [...]

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Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. “We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen,” said Melissa McIntire, 23. “There’s a lot of relief involved.” The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is [...]

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Say it loud. She’s Chinese and she’s proud.
A 67-year-old Hong Kong politician responded to accusations of being unpatriotic by lip-synching to Cantopop star Scott Hui’s “Proud to be Chinese” in a rap music video on Youtube.
Anson Chan, a prominent pro-Democracy reformer, was criticized for suggesting that she and other contenders for a legislative seat hold [...]

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All campaigns make boo-boos, but rarely the fixin’s for a good BBQ!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/didereaux/
this is the sorta stuff that comes from renting old TV series from NetFlix! heheh
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The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands.
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records search by the newspaper found seven additional [...]

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The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands.
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records search by the newspaper found seven additional [...]

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The German army sent a draft notice to a four-week-old baby named Lucio, ordering him to report for duty within the next 10 days, before realising it had blundered.
A spokesman for the army said the notice had been sent erroneously because a clerk typed in the wrong date of birth for the boy from Aubstadt, [...]

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The secret to the white house have been revealed. Here’s how New York Senator Hillary R. Clinton will plans to fight the republicans off like a real man.  She’s got my vote.
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The man thought the patient would enjoy seeing his stallion, said Lani Yukimura, a spokeswoman at the hospital. He and the horse entered the hospital earlier this month and rode an elevator up to the third floor, where they were met and stopped by security personnel,
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Chie Imai, furrier to Japan’s royal family, wants more young women to wear the real thing, for the sake of their skin.
“Fake fur is bad for your health,” Imai told Reuters after showing vividly colored coats made of mink, lynx and other furs in Tokyo this week for the 30th anniversary of her fashion house.
“Real [...]

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Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating.
“When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey Club, which is the only place in [...]

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A dozen middle-age and elderly men were game enough for a Dutch gym’s invitation to work out nude. But they were vastly outnumbered by the dozens of journalists watching them lift, row and cycle in the buff.

Fitworld owner Patrick de Man allowed the media in for the first session of “Naked Sunday” after receiving inquiries [...]

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Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating.
“When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey Club, which is the only place in [...]

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Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police? That’s the message women are flashing on their cell phones with a popular program designed to ward off wandering hands in Japan’s congested commuter trains.
“Anti-Groping Appli” by games developer Takahashi was released in late 2005, but has only recently climbed up popularity rankings, reaching [...]

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Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police? That’s the message women are flashing on their cell phones with a popular program designed to ward off wandering hands in Japan’s congested commuter trains.
“Anti-Groping Appli” by games developer Takahashi was released in late 2005, but has only recently climbed up popularity rankings, reaching [...]

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Think global warming will raise the oceans enough to submerge Cape Hatteras? Want to bet on it?
An online gambling service has started taking bets on global warming, including whether it can submerge some of the East Coast’s top vacation spots.
The odds that Virginia’s Cape Henry will be under water by 2015 — 200-to-1 at BetUs.com. [...]

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A man in Australia who was selling his “life” over the Internet — including his home, job and the chance to meet his friends — said Sunday he had sold the lot for 399,000 dollars (383,230 US).
British-born Ian Usher, 44, decided to sell his house in the western city of Perth along with his car, [...]

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Suburban New York police say a drunken driver had a suspended license and had marijuana in her car. Oh, they also say she didn’t have any pants on.
Yonkers police say 22-year-old Long Island resident Angelica Buchanan was found Saturday standing bottomless in a street near her car. They say she was so drunk she had [...]

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A baby Jesus statue here is getting a Global Positioning System for Christmas. The statue, part of a nativity scene, will be equipped with the device after the previous statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down.
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A marine mammal rehabilitation facility opened a dolphin “chat line” of sorts Saturday, hoping to teach a deaf dolphin’s unborn calf to communicate.
Castaway, as the stranded Atlantic bottlenose dolphin is named, has been recovering at the Marine Mammal Conservancy since Jan. 30. A battery of tests has confirmed she is deaf.
Dolphins need to hear echoes [...]

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Once again, Hillary Rodham Clinton leads in a poll. This time, she was top choice when people were asked which major 2008 presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume.
Asked about costume choices, 37 percent in an Associated Press-Ipsos survey this month chose New York Sen. Clinton, the front-runner among Democratic presidential contenders. Fourteen percent [...]

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A man in Australia who was selling his “life” over the Internet — including his home, job and the chance to meet his friends — said Sunday he had sold the lot for 399,000 dollars (383,230 US).
British-born Ian Usher, 44, decided to sell his house in the western city of Perth along with his car, [...]

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China state television has started shooting a 40-part television series about U.S.-born kungfu icon Bruce Lee, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
“The Legend of Bruce Lee,” with a budget of just $6.4 million, started production at the weekend in the southern province of Guangdong.
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Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.
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Earlier this summer, Betty Kratzke noticed that something was disturbing the ground near the flowers that line her driveway. Solving the mystery this week proved to be a snap — when baby snapping turtles started crawling around her yard.
“They just keep popping up out of the hole,” said Cliff Hanson, Kratzke’s brother-in-law.
The turtles had recently [...]

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Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.
Twice in her life Southey was surprised with a wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve, both times to Francis Southey.
Her future husband planned their original wedding for Christmas Eve 1942 while he was stationed in Sherman, Texas, awaiting orders to ship off to Europe during [...]

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Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.
The city of more than 1.5 million people was also found to be among the least stylish, least active, least friendly and least worldly, according to the “America’s Favorite Cities” survey by Travel & [...]

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Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.
Twice in her life Southey was surprised with a wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve, both times to Francis Southey.
Her future husband planned their original wedding for Christmas Eve 1942 while he was stationed in Sherman, Texas, awaiting orders to ship off to Europe during [...]

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A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
The Segbroek police station in The Hague borrowed the idea of putting compass marks on ceilings from an Amsterdam hotel, the Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported on Friday.
Muslims pray five times a day, [...]

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Sarajevo artists raised a monument to canned beef on Friday in a gesture ridiculing donors for providing such an unpopular food as humanitarian aid during the Bosnian capital’s 1992-95 siege.
“The Monument to the International Community” from the “Grateful Citizens of Sarajevo” reads an inscription at the marble foundation of the 1-metre-high golden can of beef.
Bosnians [...]

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A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance Bitch.
The third word in the sign is widely visible at North 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue North, one of the main intersections in the Wallingford neighborhood business west of Interstate 5 and [...]

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Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.
Twice in her life Southey was surprised with a wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve, both times to Francis Southey.
Her future husband planned their original wedding for Christmas Eve 1942 while he was stationed in Sherman, Texas, awaiting orders to ship off to Europe during [...]

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One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very Sexy nightie. ‘Tie me up,’ she purred, ‘and you can do anything you want.’ So he tied her up and went golfing.
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Matt White, a journeyman pitcher trying to make the Los Angeles Dodgers, could become baseball’s first billionaire player.
It has nothing to do with his arm. He owns a rock quarry in western Massachusetts.
White, who has appeared in seven big league games in nine professional seasons, paid $50,000 three years ago to buy 50 acres of [...]

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All of that Florida sun must be getting to Maine snowbird Roland Fortin. The 91-year-old has laid down a challenge to box fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who’s 92. Fortin, former “cut man” for retired boxing champ Joey Gamache, said the idea for the four-round bout was hatched at the Tropical Gym in Pompano Beach, where [...]

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Violet Fojut, 88, isn’t happy that the bingo games she and fellow senior citizens have participated in at the Cream City Cafeteria in the Southridge Mall won’t be held any more.
“It was always packed. Every table was always packed,” he said Tuesday after learning that police had told officials of Boston Store, in which the [...]

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Texas legislators have made it easier for blind hunters to capture their prey.
A bill passed by the state house Thursday will allow legally blind hunters to use laser sight devices when hunting with a sighted companion.
Scores of blind hunters already prowl the Texas backcountry outfitted with scopes that let their friends help them aim.
“It shocks [...]

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An American astronaut became the first person to run the Boston Marathon in space on Monday, completing the 26.2 miles (42.16 km) on a treadmill in the orbiting International Space Station.
Suni Williams, who was an official entrant in the race, took four hours 23 minutes 46 seconds, said John Yembrick, a spokesman for the National [...]

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An angry soccer mom who left her teenage daughter alongside an interstate was ticketed for neglect, Lincoln police said Tuesday. Police spokeswoman Katherine Finnell confirmed this account from police reports:
The 42-year-old Lincoln mom was miffed about her daughter’s poor play on Saturday.
On their drive home the girl flubbed the lines her mom had drilled into [...]

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After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance — something he’s already done three times before.
After nine weeks, Martin Strel arrived near the city of Belem, the capital of the jungle state of Para, [...]

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An 81-year-old German woman driving to a cemetery in her electric wheelchair decided to take a shortcut and drove the wrong way down a highway.
The wheelchair had been traveling at about four miles per hour. Vehicles on German motorways must clock at least 37 miles per hour, and there is no upper speed limit [...]

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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, announced plans on Tuesday for a lottery which would send its winner into space in a bid to spread the dream of extraterrestrial travel beyond the super-wealthy.
Aldrin, who followed U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong onto the moon in July 1969, said the lottery would be run [...]

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A man in Australia who was selling his “life” over the Internet — including his home, job and the chance to meet his friends — said Sunday he had sold the lot for 399,000 dollars (383,230 US).
British-born Ian Usher, 44, decided to sell his house in the western city of Perth along with his car, [...]

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A man living in a graveyard in a rubbish-strewn, rundown Kabul district is the unlikely hero behind the scenes of one of Hollywood’s most eagerly anticipated movies this year.
Noor Agha is widely acknowledged as the best kite-maker in Afghanistan, where flying and dueling with kites is the closest thing the war-torn country has to a [...]

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The world’s first rhino calf born through artificial insemination thrilled scores of children and journalists in her press debut at Budapest Zoo on Thursday.
Layla, a two-and-a-half-month old Southern White Rhino who is Hungary’s answer to celebrity German polar bear cub Knut, at first appeared intimidated by the crowd at her naming ceremony, but later sniffed [...]

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As ministers in Congo’s first democratic government in four decades settled into their new offices on Thursday, there was one notable absentee.
In a very brief political career, Trade Minister Andre Kasongo Ilunga has become the country’s most notorious cabinet member, thanks to a controversy stemming not from corruption or abuse of power, but from whether [...]

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Egypt’s chief archaeologist displayed on Tuesday the latest discoveries from the Sakkara cemetery south of Cairo and said many more treasures clearly lay hidden beneath the sands.
The new finds, outlined in statements over the past week, also show that Sakkara remained a necropolis, from the Greek “City of the Dead”, for Egypt’s elite long after [...]

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South African police said on Thursday they had impounded 11 old cars after receiving complaints that giant rats nesting in the vehicles were attacking pedestrians.
“We’ve had to deal with vicious dogs before but not with rats,” Wayne Minnaar, chief superintendent of the Johannesburg police, told SAPA news agency after police discovered 25 large rats living [...]

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Uganda scrapped an adultery law on Thursday that campaigners said discriminated against women.
Uganda’s Constitutional Court ordered the changes to the Penal Code, under which it was legal for a married man to have an affair with an unmarried woman but against the law for a married woman to have an affair with an unmarried man.
“Section [...]

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Anti-bullying advocates are beating up on the name chosen for the new professional basketball team in Syracuse, N.Y. The Syracuse Bullies will play in the American Basketball Association beginning this fall.
People who run anti-bullying programs are crying foul over the Bullies name. They say when children attend the games, they’ll get the wrong idea that [...]

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A man in Australia who was selling his “life” over the Internet — including his home, job and the chance to meet his friends — said Sunday he had sold the lot for 399,000 dollars (383,230 US).
British-born Ian Usher, 44, decided to sell his house in the western city of Perth along with his car, [...]

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water — well, it is, actually.
A mystery triggered this week by the bizarre discovery of the carcass of a 3-foot-long shark in a freshwater river in northern Austria ended Saturday when a man confessed he had put it there as a joke.
The prankster, [...]

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Love was in the air at several Dhaka universities on Wednesday as students held concerts and cuddled at rare events to celebrate Valentine’s Day in majority Muslim Bangladesh.
Up to 10,000 students at Dhaka University, the country’s biggest, attended an open air concert despite pouring rain. Some even stole off to hug and kiss on campus [...]

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Sarajevo artists raised a monument to canned beef on Friday in a gesture ridiculing donors for providing such an unpopular food as humanitarian aid during the Bosnian capital’s 1992-95 siege.
“The Monument to the International Community” from the “Grateful Citizens of Sarajevo” reads an inscription at the marble foundation of the 1-metre-high golden can of beef.
Bosnians [...]

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The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands.
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records search by the newspaper found seven additional [...]

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A group of U.S. tourists, including a former Marine, killed a Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun on them in a Caribbean port, a local police official said on Thursday.
The cruise ship passengers told police they jumped on Wagner Segura, 20, to defend themselves when he pointed a .38 [...]

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The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands.
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records search by the newspaper found seven additional [...]

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Say it loud. She’s Chinese and she’s proud.
A 67-year-old Hong Kong politician responded to accusations of being unpatriotic by lip-synching to Cantopop star Scott Hui’s “Proud to be Chinese” in a rap music video on Youtube.
Anson Chan, a prominent pro-Democracy reformer, was criticized for suggesting that she and other contenders for a legislative seat hold [...]

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A Chinese woman is suing her former employer after falling victim to the company policy of firing staff who contradict their boss three times, local media reported on Thursday.
HWA-1 Enterprise Co Ltd, a light industrial manufacturer based in China’s southeastern port city of Xiamen, sacked a woman surnamed Ni for refusing to pay fines [...]

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Small packets of sugar bearing the likeness of Adolf Hitler and carrying Holocaust jokes have been found in some cafes in Croatia, prompting an investigation, the office of the state prosecutor said Monday.
“The local district attorney in (the eastern town of) Pozega has opened an investigation and is currently looking at the matter,” said Martina [...]

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 PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech couple who decided to take a DNA test to squash persistent pub gossip and prove that their 10-month-old baby was their own got a nasty surprise.
The couple, from the southeastern town of Trebic, had some doubts about the child as her hair was blonde and they both had dark hair. [...]

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The Baltic state of Estonia plans to become the world’s first country to allow voting in a national parliamentary election via the Internet next month — with a little help from the forest king.
E-voting will be introduced for a parliamentary election on March 4, for the first time after it was used in more limited [...]

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Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.
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Police patrolling the red-light district of the Belgian capital have been ordered to stop visiting brothels and drinking in bars when on duty.
A letter sent to officers in Brussels’ northern police district, and published in a Belgian daily Tuesday, urged them to set a good example and earn the public’s respect.
“These officers think their [...]

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A good butler knows just how to rouse one after a boozy night and now anyone can wake feeling pampered to the indulgent tones of the consummate valet.
The Voco clock