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31st July
Last updated 16 minutes ago
A cargo plane door opened in flight over Montana and likely turned two bags into air mail
An argument between two female flight attendants forced the cancellation of an Atlanta-bound flight at an airport in upstate New York.
Police said the mother of an elementary school student drank a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor before brandishing a sword in her child's school. The woman, 32, apparently intended to confront the parents of another child who had been in a spitting match with... Email this Article Add to del.icio.us Add to digg Add to Facebook
Residents in a Belgian town are being offered pairs of chickens as part of a campaign to reduce household waste.
A businessman who claimed he was fined by police for blowing his nose while driving has the case dropped.
Reuters - A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari's motorcade drive by.
Score one for the love handles. Samantha Lynn Frazier says her love handles saved her life
Citizens of New York were shocked when a 140-year-old hot dog was found on Coney Island recently, but it has turned out to be all a hoax, reports say.
A new road in Derby is to be named after Lara Croft, the digitally-enhanced star of the Tomb Raider Computer games, after a residents vote.
Reuters - A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt.
Reuters - A German robber held up the same bank in Hamburg twice within 24 hours just a week after being released from jail -- for the same crime.
Reuters - A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.
Britain's worst names have been revealed in a new survey which has disclosed both the embarrassing and plain weird names.
A couple pledge their skeletons to a visitor attraction because they do not want to inflict funerals on family.
Miami police say a man smashed the front door of a restaurant, fumbled around a bit, then got into a tug-of-war fight with a cash register.
Don't cuss for an entire week. That's what one California lawmaker is proposing.
If there was ever a question over the safety of breast implants then this will prove critics wrong, as a woman's silicone D cup's saved her life from gunshot.
Court rules that horror-movie style zombies have the right to free speech after a group of protesters dressed as zombies were arrested by Minnesota police.
An Indianapolis woman faces a theft charge for allegedly coaxing her 5-year-old daughter into stealing a woman's purse at a restaurant. According to a probable cause affidavit, a 24-year-old woman admitted asking her daughter to steal the purse Feb. 14 at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. The woman allegedly told officers she pointed out the purse she wanted her daughter ...
Skewered by a one-metre-long iron rod - boy of 12, Kalim Ali, miraculously survives.


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