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| Star Wars Lego sucking girl becomes YouTube hit |
| Metro.co.uk | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:56:00 GMT |
| A short time ago, in a country not far, far away... a ten-year-old girl became an overnight TV star with her bizarre skill involving Star Wars Lego. |
| New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters) |
| West Australian | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:32:00 GMT |
| WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported. Avie Woodbury from |
| Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters) |
| West Australian | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:32:00 GMT |
| Reuters © Enlarge photo VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday. The airline was forced to delay a |
| "Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters) |
| West Australian | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:32:00 GMT |
| SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb. The Asian elephant mother delivered the male baby in the early hours of |
| Strange fruit: Dutch police discover half-ton of cocaine stashed in plastic pineapples |
| Q 107 | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:14:00 GMT |
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| Crime doesn't pay much: Police say robber scored $6 from holding up 11 people at US market |
| Q 107 | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:13:00 GMT |
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| Calgary Zoo's newest male tiger shows signs of bonding with female tiger |
| Q 107 | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:13:00 GMT |
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| Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU |
| Reuters UK | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:00 GMT |
| Some two dozen guests, surrounded on all sides by media, crammed into a small room off the main parliamentary restaurant to hear speeches backing the annual hunt off Canada's East Coast, which the EU says is inhumane. "This support begins on the plates |
| World's largest house of cards record broken |
| Metro.co.uk | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:54:00 GMT |
| Bryan Berg gave a (very gentle) sigh of relief when he finally completed the world’s largest ‘house of cards’. Bryan Berg poses with his creation after breaking his own Guinness World Record for the largest house of free-tanding playing cards in |
| Swedish cops investigate penis prank |
| CNEWS | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:53:00 GMT |
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| Two held for corpse theft of ex-president |
| East African Standard | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:06:00 GMT |
| A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday. The men, an Indian migrant and a Greek Cypriot, are |
| Blind boxer knocks out sighted opponent |
| ITN | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:00 GMT |
| Sujet Salee is carving out a career in Thai Boxing, despite being blind. |
| Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse |
| Yahoo! Canada | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:33:00 GMT |
| NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday. The men, a 31-year-old |
| Woman gives birth to baby she didn't realise she was pregnant with |
| Metro.co.uk | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:55:00 GMT |
| A woman in Kentucky who didn't even know she was pregnant unexpectedly gave birth to her son before picking up her other son from school and visiting the child's grandma before finally deciding to go to hospital. |
| Man attacked for trying to buy drugs with Monopoly money |
| Metro.co.uk | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:55:00 GMT |
| A Kansas man told police officers that he had been beaten and left with a head wound after he tried to buy drugs using Monopoly money. |
| Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters) |
| Yahoo! News | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:33:00 GMT |
| Reuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday. |
| leader's corpse (Reuters) |
| West Australian | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:26:00 GMT |
| (Corrects to say cash was for help in body snatching, paragraph 2) |
| Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters) |
| West Australian | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:26:00 GMT |
| NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday. The men, a 31-year-old |
| Women dance in street to find Mr Right |
| Ananova | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:14:00 GMT |
| A group of masked women caused controversy in China by dancing in the street in their underwear in a bid to find husbands. The eight young women said they were coming under intense pressure from their families to settle down before "it was too late". |
| Giant python loose on housing estate |
| Ananova | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:13:00 GMT |
| Police have issued a warning about an escaped giant Burmese python which is loose on a housing estate in Northampton. The green snake, believed to be "several feet long", was seen by a passer-by in the undergrowth in Lingswood, reports the Daily |
| Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse |
| Reuters | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:13:00 GMT |
| NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday. The men, a 31-year-old |
| Lost Graffiti of the Templars |
| Fortean Times | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:19:00 GMT |
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| Cyprus holds two for corpse theft of ex-leader |
| Reuters UK | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:02:00 GMT |
| The men, a 31-year-old migrant from India and a 48-year-old Greek Cypriot, are suspected of being behind the bizarre crime, for which one of them received just 200 euros (180 pounds) in cash for revealing where the body could be found. Police said they |
| Daniel Angerer creates breast milk cheese for New York restaurant |
| Metro.co.uk | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:55:00 GMT |
| Daniel Angerer, head chef at Klee Brasserie in New York, has created breast milk cheese for experimental customers from his wife's excess produce. Related Tags: This isn't just any cheese... it's breast milk cheese. Daniel Angerer’s lactating wife has |
| Woman 'about to turn 130' |
| ITN | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:19:00 GMT |
| Birth documents claim a woman in Georgia was born in 1880. Related Stories Woman drives car to the edge Plastic surgery to look like Jessica Alba Is this the world's oldest paperboy? Toddler with incredible memory Skydiving gran celebrates Women's day |
| Japan baby-robot teaches parenting skills |
| Yahoo! Canada | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:47:00 GMT |
| Module body TSUKUBA, Japan (AFP) - It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly baby-bot looks unearthly |
| Calgary Zoo's newest male tiger shows signs of bonding with female tiger |
| Yahoo! Canada | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:47:00 GMT |
| CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo's new male tiger appears to like his new roommate. Baikal came to Calgary from the Bronx Zoo in January as part of the Siberian Tiger Species Survival Plan. Officials hope that Baikal will mate with a female tiger named Katja |
| Drug Testing Added To Iditarod Race |
| WSOC-TV | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:29:00 GMT |
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Every human competitor now running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will be tested for alcohol and illegal drugs on the trail for the first time in the history of the 1,100-mile race -- a change defending champion Lance Mackey |
| Aliens vs. Predator |
| Fortean Times | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:21:00 GMT |
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| Chef warned over breast milk cheese |
| Ananova | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:47:00 GMT |
| A New York restauranteur has been warned by city health officials after he offered customers cheese made from his wife's breast milk. Daniel Angerer, co-owner with wife, Lori, of Klee Brasserie in Manhattan, decided to experiment after their freezer ran |
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