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31st July
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Pub customers are going nuts for their local's latest special ? squirrel pie and mash.
A judge watches Mohammed Ali Zinhom do 46 push-ups in 49 seconds on just two fingers.
A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War's most infamous battles
Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.
Canadian Minister of Defence Peter MacKay gives a piece of seal meat to the Chief of Defence Staff General W.J. Natynczyk (L) during a community event in Iqaluit, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic August 22, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Andy ClarkReuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
A Michigan man sent to prison for 15 years is getting a new trial after the judge failed to do a routine procedure -- ask the jury to take an oath.
Here's one Wisconsin grandmother who makes time for her grandson.
Which weird picture is the weirdest? You decide, in a public battle to see which weird picture will go on to fight another day...
Shaving your bikini line is certainly and original excuse for a crash, but how do you think a vicar ended up with a potato up his bottom, or a dwarf got his penis stuck in a hoover? Click here to find out.
Scotland's rotten weather has resulted in some of its population having ginger hair, says Edinburgh University genetics student Emily Pritchard.
The charge: assault on a police officer. The weapon: breast milk
An underground Cold War nuclear bunker set in the picturesque English countryside has been sold on the auction site eBay.
A woman in Germany phoned police because she heard 'suspicious noises' in her flat - only to discover that the cause of the noises was in fact a vibrator.
A £40,000 car which had belonged to Glasgow criminals is now being used by the police in the fight against serious crime.
A car crash in Florida is being blamed on the fact that the driver was attempting to shave her pubic hair while at the wheel.
A thirsty four-year-old boy had to be rescued by firefighters after getting his hand stuck in a vending machine for more than an hour in New Zealand.
A woman in Kentucky is facing assault charges after allegedly squirting a stream of breast milk at a jailer.
One of our closest primate relatives, the bonobo, voluntarily shares food, scientists report.
A decommissioned nuclear bunker in a field in Derbyshire has sold for £20,600 in an online eBay auction.


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