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9th March
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Naples celebrates official EU recognition for the Italian city's most famous culinary creation: the pizza.
Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses won't
Police said Wednesday that a women viewing a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man that was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities.
Xiaoqing gives an interview to Reuters in the Time Plastic surgery clinic in Shanghai February 4, 2010. The 21-year-old, who would only give her name as Xiaoqing, is seeking extensive plastic surgery to look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba, mainly because she hopes to win back her boyfriend who she said always wished she looked more like the Hollywood star. The hospital has agreed to do it for free to showcase their surgery skills. REUTERS/Nir EliasReuters - A Chinese woman is seeking extensive plastic surgery to look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba, mainly because she hopes to win back her boyfriend who she said always wished she looked more like the Hollywood star.
Reuters - A traditional Emirati restaurant in Dubai has added a new entree to its menu billed as a fat-free choice for carnivorous but health-conscious diners: the Camel Burger.
A deputy arrested on a drunken driving charge wound up in a dog house before he was taken to the big house
Insects, a popular delicacy in many parts of the world, are getting a culinary makeover in one Central American city, where scientists are ?growing? insects that will be tailored for human consumption.
A New Yorker faces a $135 traffic fine for using a mannequin as her "plus one" in the high-occupancy vehicle lane of the Long Island Expressway.
Keepers at a Scottish safari park were alerted to rhino birth by a webcam viewer from Cyprus who called them to say the animal's waters had broken, it emerges.
Two pandas born in the US are due to be flown to China to be re-settled - where they face a new diet and language.
A Butte restaurant was burglarized three times in four days, but the last time, the would-be thieves left empty handed. The first break-in and burglary of Casagranda's restaurant happened sometime overnight Friday and was reported at 10 a.m. Saturday. Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff John Walsh said the suspect or suspects forced a door open and took the contents of the tip ...
An Australian man is facing charges after his attempts to kiss a police sniffer dog led to a row in which he was pepper sprayed and arrested.
Officials at an American jail have intercepted an illicit cantaloupe sent to inmates - and discovered that it was full of drugs.
A Slovenian man who saved his three dogs from being put down after they were accused of attacking humans has been found mauled to death by the same dogs.
Enraged by protesters likening him to a "big and stupid" water buffalo, Indonesia's president has ordered the beasts and other animals banned at street rallies, a decision some Indonesians said shows their leader can't handle criticism. The ban, issued... Email this Article Add to del.icio.us Add to digg Add to Facebook
A sleepy Yorkshire village has fallen foul of a crazed pheasant, which has harassed residents and local dogs, and chased prams and cars.
A new book remembers the talented rabbit whose heats of balancing things on his head made him an early web star.
A Jefferson County jury has awarded a former stripper $100,000 in a lawsuit in which she claimed the club that employed her failed to stop her from driving home after her on-the-job drinking. Patsy Hamaker of Bessemer was injured in a wreck after leaving work at The Furnace on Oct. 17, 2007. She said she can no longer dance because ...
A Tennessee sheriff's deputy arrested on a drunken driving charge wound up in a dog house before he was taken to the big house. The Kingsport Times-News reported the details of a Tennessee Highway Patrol arrest report, which said 47-year-old Samuel Monroe Bledsoe was kicking the windows of a trooper's cruiser on his way to a hospital for a blood ...
The tipoff was the sunglasses. A New Yorker faces a $135 traffic fine for using a mannequin as her plus-one in the high-occupancy lane of the Long Island Expressway. An alert sheriff's deputy on Long Island became suspicious when he saw the "passenger" wearing sunglasses and using the visor. The only problem: The sky was overcast.


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