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31st July
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RSPCA staff in Oldham discover a dog they thought was deaf could only understand Polish.
Ohio family adopt a deer who lives in their home, shares their bed, uses the swimming pool and turns lights on and off.
One wedding gift for a Spokane couple won't come in the form of a card with money or a nicely wrapped present but rather 150,000 cans
A violent thug arrived at court ready to be jailed ? complete with a stereo system to keep him entertained in his prison cell.
Not even the police are immune from those offers of free money from African countries that are really scams
A musical about Barack Obama's "Yes we can" election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton.
A hippo swims in an artificial lake in a farm in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, December 21, 2006. REUTERS/Daniel MunozReuters - Montenegro's only hippopotamus escaped from the mountainous Adriatic nation's zoo during floods this week, officials said Wednesday.
Reuters - Canada's second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers.
?It's like a little pet,? says Florida resident Prena Thomas.
US firm offers software with new character that allows sarcasm to be properly conveyed in writing.
Maryland highway officials have a bridge in Cecil County they want to sell you. The State Highway Administration said the Maryland Route 545 bridge over Little Elk Creek in Childs is available to be purchased and reused at a new location. The state is willing to sell the bridge to a city or county government, historic preservation group, nonprofit, corporation ...
A woman has been charged with trashing a McDonald's restaurant in Missouri because she was unhappy with her cheeseburger. Police said they received many tips after releasing video of the Dec. 27 incident.
A student at a northeastern Pennsylvania Roman Catholic college has apologized for urinating on a public nativity scene. The student, 22, said Monday he "was being a drunken idiot" a day earlier when he urinated on the nativity scene in Wilkes-Barre's public square.
A Massachusetts delivery driver growing his hair out for charity said he has been told by his employer to cut it. Brad Siscoe, a contractor employee who makes deliveries for FedEx Ground, said Monday his employer wants him to cut his "hockey" hair, put it in a ponytail or tuck it under a hat.
One Broward County couple decided to tie the knot where they first met: Whole Foods Market . Jack Frankel, 75, and 67-year-old Fina Nikolos met in May at the supermarket store in Coral Springs. It had been raining when Frankel noticed a beautiful woman pass him. Nikolos offered to walk him to his car with an umbrella. He later thanked ...
Residents in a Knoxville's wealthy Sequoyah Hills neighborhood are alarmed that a man wants to convert his home into a duplex and run a music studio and fertility service out of it. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported David Perkins is asking the Metropolitan Planning Commission to allow the change, saying he wants to operate businesses that would involve music lessons ...
A woman has been charged with trashing a McDonald's restaurant in Missouri because she was unhappy with her cheeseburger.


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