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31st July
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The Walla Walla Police Department can keep $401,000 officers found in a vacant house
Police say a car dealer who repossessed a San Jose woman's Honda Accord left with something a bit more valuable: her 2-year-old son
Police in California say a car dealer who repossessed a San Jose woman's Honda Accord left with something a bit more valuable: her 2-year-old son.
Argentina's national football team coach Diego Maradona wearing diamond earrings a few days before Italian authorities seized a gold pair to pay off part of his huge tax bill.(AFP/Juan Mabromata)Reuters - The earring that was confiscated from Diego Maradona as part payment of his tax arrears in Italy has been sold to an anonymous woman at auction for 25,000 euros ($36,000), a spokesman for the agency organizing the sale said Thursday.
Reuters - Some of the first wild boar to roam free in England for 300 years have been raiding rubbish bins, attacking dogs and digging up green spaces in villages scattered around England's first national forest park.
A townhouse dubbed New York City's skinniest house has sold for $2.1 million.
Sultan Kosen, recently officially crowned the tallest man in the world, has met the man who currently holds the title of the world's smallest man - He Pingping.
Some British bobbies have been reprimanded after they used their riot shields as makeshift sleds during the country's cold snap
An undercover drug buy led North Carolina detectives to an underground marijuana garden in a buried school bus.
Image Caption: Despite its cuddly look, the male duck-billed platypus has stingers on its hind limbs that can deliver a painful venom. Scientists are unraveling its chemical composition. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Image Caption: Despite its cuddly look, the male duck-billed platypus has stingers on its hind limbs that can deliver a painful venom. Scientists are unraveling its chemical composition. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
A town house dubbed New York City's skinniest house has sold for $2.1 million
An undercover drug buy led North Carolina detectives to an underground marijuana garden in a buried school bus
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.
An undercover drug buy led North Carolina detectives to an underground marijuana garden in a buried school bus.
A school in America has banned school-sponsored dance events because the students won't stop doing sexy dances.
A home less than ten feet wide, which has been dubbed New York City's skinniest house, has sold for $2.1 million (£1.3million).
A town house dubbed New York City's skinniest house has sold for $2.1 million. The red, 9 1/2 foot wide, 42 foot long brick building in Greenwich Village was built in 1873 on land used as an alley between homes. The town house was listed for sale last August at $2.7 million. The two bedroom, two bath home last sold ...
Police are hunting an intruder who broke into a woman's Colorado apartment, and stole only ten dollars - but beheaded one of her tropical fish.
Wu Kang is applying to Guinness World Records to be recognised as the world's smallest man, but doctors could give him a growth hormone?


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