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31st July
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A man caught while wearing his female neighbor's underwear this summer has pleaded guilty to burglary
A Washington state blood center is offering donors a deal: Give a pint of blood, get a pint of beer
Reuters - The extramarital affair conducted by Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister, has inspired an internet campaign to push "Mrs Robinson," the song from the film "The Graduate," to the top of the British pop charts.
Reuters - Arctic terns can fly more than 80,000 km (49,700 miles) a year, beating past estimates of the seabirds' record migrations and equivalent to three round trips to the Moon over a lifetime, a study showed on Monday.
Reuters - A growing number of consumers worldwide used their mobile telephones to help them shop early in the holiday season with usage particularly high among young adults seeking coupons, according to a survey.
Which weird picture is the weirdest? You decide, in a public battle to see which weird picture will go on to fight another day...
No pants? No problem -- at least for a day on the New York City subway
A man who got 10 years in prison over an $80 slab of meat says it was under his shirt, but he wasn't stealing it
Roxxxy is sexy -- at least to Douglas Hines. He says his company has developed "the world's first sex robot"
A southwestern Pennsylvania man who can't believe he received so few votes in a local judge's race is taking his appeal of the results to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If you spotted a number of people without their trousers on Sunday, it was part of the worldwide No Pants On The Subway Day.
The face of the Messiah is still doing the rounds, appearing on an iron, in a bruise, on a car window - and now on a naan bread in a curryhouse in Surrey.
In what is probably yet another sign of the oncoming apocalypse, a calf with two faces has been born in America. Just when you thought cows couldn't get any prettier.
Chris Evans debuts on BBC Radio 2's breakfast show, having taken over from Sir Terry Wogan.
Hundreds of New Yorkers have been riding the city's subway trains in their underwear. They stripped down to their undies on Sunday for the ninth annual No Pants Subway Ride.


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