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6th January
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Transportation Safety board of Canada Chair Wendy Tadros (C), Senior Marine Investigator Captain Pierre Murray and Director of Marine Investigations Captain Yvette Myers (L) take questions during a news conference in Vancouver British Columbia, March 12, 2008. The Safety Board on Wednesday released its findings into the March 22, 2006 sinking of the BC Ferry Queen of the North. REUTERS/Lyle StaffordReuters - A conversation between two former lovers navigating a Canadian ferry may have contributed to the ship's fatal sinking, according to an investigation released on Wednesday.
AP - Yakima police took notice when 11 Hondas were stolen in a two-week period. Now they are investigating nine Honda thefts that occurred in a period of about 24 hours. The cars were taken Monday and Tuesday, and police say most were early to mid-1990s models.
AP - Most days, Moko the bottlenosed dolphin swims playfully with humans at a New Zealand beach. But this week, it seems, Moko found his mojo. Witnesses described Wednesday how they saw the dolphin swim up to two stranded whales and guide them to safety.
A woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage control handlers found the skeleton of her brother sealed in a plastic bag ...
A woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage control handlers found the skeleton of her brother sealed in a plastic bag in her luggage, police said Wednesday.
A logo is seen on clothes hangers in a Marks & Spencer store in the City of London May 22, 2007. An accountant who tried to sue Marks & Spencer after he slipped on a grape and injured himself lost his case on Wednesday and was ordered to pay legal costs. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleReuters - An accountant who tried to sue Marks & Spencer after he slipped on a grape and injured himself lost his case on Wednesday and was ordered to pay legal costs.
New research finds that ant colonies are not models of social co-operation, but full of corruption and selfishness.
A woman in Kansas is found to have been sitting on her boyfriend's toilet for two years. You might want to leave that a bit before you use it.
Investigators are searching for whomever poured deer urine into an air conditioning unit
Life jackets are made for people, not dogs
It's official. No one else has made a bigger crab cake
Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut.
Officials in suburban Denver, Colorado, are planning to do away with grades for in the coming school year, but that doesn't mean students don't have to work hard.
Reuters - Two Italian women carrying luggage containing the remains of a man who died in Brazil 11 years ago were stopped by Munich airport police during a stopover on their journey from Sao Paulo to Naples.
A worker clears snow in downtown Toronto February 1, 2008. Although Canada is one of the snowiest countries in the world, a series of violent 'snow rage' incidents reveal that even the locals have their limits. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)Reuters - Although Canada is one of the snowiest countries in the world, a series of violent "snow rage" incidents reveal that even the locals have their limits.
An inmate takes a break at a state maximum security jail in Padova, December 17, 2007. A court in Sicily has ruled that an accused Mafioso can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail. (Dario Pignatelli/Reuters)Reuters - A court in Sicily has ruled that an accused Mafioso can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail.
A man washes his feet before entering a mosque in Istanbul, November 24, 2003. A Chinese bride burned her new husband to death after he got into bed after a drunken argument without washing his feet, state media reported on Wednesday. (Peter Andrews/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese bride burned her new husband to death after he got into bed after a drunken argument without washing his feet, state media reported on Wednesday.
Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut.
AP - Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut.
A worker clears snow in downtown Toronto February 1, 2008. REUTERS/Mark BlinchReuters - Although Canada is one of the snowiest countries in the world, a series of violent "snow rage" incidents reveal that even the locals have their limits.


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