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6th January
Last updated 36 minutes ago
AP - Three zebras from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus briefly escaped from their downtown venue, but were quickly corralled by their trainer and two handlers.
AP - Instead of a wedding ring, one Scottsbluff bride found herself in handcuffs. Scotts Bluff County deputies arrested 31-year-old Dianne Carnes on Tuesday afternoon, just after her courthouse wedding was to have started.
A row is reported over an alleged lack of toilet facilities at the venue for Nato's summit in Romania next month.
Reuters - A cash machine became a big hit this week after it started paying out twice as much money as it should.
Reuters - Sometimes it pays to have your own wheels.
Things to do while driving, a sad photo, and an excellent piece of hacking history.
Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a cartoon robot cat
Lloyd's of London is insuring the nose of winemaker Ilja Gort for $8 million
Everything people put on their Facebook entries is not always true
A man who pretended to be a CEO complaining about his fast-food order in a taco scam is headed for jail
A woman presents an urn with the design of a soccer ball at the Reuters - Vienna's leading funeral company, steeped in tradition, is moving with the times: the bereaved can have their loved one back in a cremation urn in the shape of a football.
The world's super-rich are shelling out big bucks for the latest limited-edition deluxe offering: Champagne that costs $6,300 a bottle. Or, $79,000 for a case of 12.
A woman walks in a food department in a supermarket in Nice southern France, February 25, 2008. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)Reuters - A shoplifter looking to make a quick getaway from a Dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left police a crucial piece of evidence -- his 12-year-old son.
A refuse container in downtown Vancouver British Columbia is full July 23, 2007. (Andy Clark/Reuters)Reuters - Canada will probe how blueprints for the new headquarters of an elite military counter-terrorism unit ended up in a pile of garbage, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Thursday.
Reuters - Take a second look at that signed Picasso print you bought on eBay.
Reuters - Grinning Chinese peasants, urinating men, hamburgers and fried chicken -- with Taiwan's presidential election Saturday, both candidates are blanketing newspapers with increasingly creative, even odd, adverts.
A girl enjoys bungee jumping during an adventure sports event in New Delhi January 7, 2007. A growing number of older Britons are indulging in risky holiday behaviour, the Foreign Office warned on Friday. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - A growing number of older Britons are indulging in risky holiday behaviour, the Foreign Office warned on Friday.
The Great Illinois Corn Flake disappeared from eBay for a while, but fear not, lovers of state-shaped cereal - it's still available. According to Melissa McIntire, one of the Chesapeake sisters selling the item, the auction site pulled their flake Tuesday because it violated a food policy.
The Doctor would feel right at home in a tiny commercial building just on the market - called Tardis House.
By Mike Holtzclaw, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Mar. 20--The auction is decidedly flaky, but the piece of cereal could be described only as stately.


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