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9th September
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O no -- Maine Democrats are accusing a potential Republican state legislative candidate of ripping off President Barack Obama's Web site. State Republicans say it's a case of pettiness, the Bangor Daily News reported Thursday. The Maine Democratic Party said Wednesday presumptive Republican candidate Les Otten's Web site was awfully similar to Obama's, with graphics built around the letter O. Republicans just don't get it, Arden Manning, state Democratic party executive director, said in a statement.
What is Andy Murray's weird press-up for?
A Canadian funeral home in southwestern Ontario is taking a community-friendly trend further by offering free coffee to commuters at a drive-through window. For the next nine weeks between 7 and 9 a.m.
They were looking for a bit of La Dolce Vita but what two Japanese tourists got in a restaurant in Rome left a bad taste in their mouths.
It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out.
It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out.
A Canadian newspaper in Vancouver is hunting for a woman who lived in a bad part of town and who is entitled to a $360,000 family inheritance. The Vancouver Sun was asked by a Toronto lawyer representing a German bank to locate Lucia Leiser, whose father died 10 years ago. The lawyer found a 2007 Sun article quoting a woman named Lucia Leiser-Maika along with a photo of her.
Reuters - The British military is mystified after what was first announced as a major haul of opium poppy seeds amounted to nothing more than a hill of beans.
Reuters - "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs lost his long-running bid for early jail release on Wednesday after the British government said he should not be allowed out on parole because he was "wholly unrepentant."
British artist Anthony Gormley (C) poses for photographers with people from different walks of life during a photocall for the Reuters - A housewife from Sleaford in Lincolnshire will be the first of thousands of people to stand for one hour on top of a plinth in London's Trafalgar Square as part of a 100-day "live sculpture" exercise.
An Air New Zealand passenger jet taxis past an idle Ansett plane at Sydney's airport September 17, 2001. REUTERS/Mark BakerReuters - Air New Zealand has hit on a novel way to make sure even the most jaded flyers keep their eyes glued on its flight safety briefing.
Reuters - A housewife from Sleaford in Lincolnshire will be the first of thousands of people to stand for one hour on top of a plinth in London's Trafalgar Square as part of a 100-day "live sculpture" exercise.
There's something horrible lurking in the sewers, captured in a video that's been nauseating the internet. But what are they?
The owners of a family-run fishmongers in Leeds market get a surprise visit from the Prime Minister.
A house in Ohio repeatedly set on fire by firefighters for training exercises catches fire for real.
Reuters - Europe's highest court on Thursday upheld the right of Dutch and Italian brewers to sell their 'Bavaria' beer in Italy, rejecting a bid by a company making a rival beer with the equivalent name in German to stop them.
A passenger on a plane in America has been arrested after he stripped naked during the flight.
They look like firm friends but it will take Berry the chihuahua a while to forgive Leroy the clumsy horse.
Two midget wrestlers have been found dead in their hotel after being drugged to death by female robbers.
Students and staff at a school in Dorset spend eight months producing a full-length feature film based on a Thomas Hardy novel.


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