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31st July
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A short time ago, in a country not far, far away... a ten-year-old girl became an overnight TV star with her bizarre skill involving Star Wars Lego.
Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town
They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did _ but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6. A Sheriff's Department statement says the woman was armed with a semi-... Email this Article Add to del.icio.us Add to digg Add to Facebook
They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did -- but not much.
Appetizers featuring seal meat are displayed during an event to mark the first time seal meat is served in the parliamentary restaurant on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Chris WattieReuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.
Taronga Zoo veterinarians give treatment to a newborn elephant calf as its mother Porntip (R) stands next to it in Sydney March 10, 2010. An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb. REUTERS/Taronga Zoo/Bobby-Jo Vial/HandoutReuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.
US architect breaks world house of cards record - taking 44 days and using 4,051 decks of cards to create a replica of a Las Vegas-style strip in the world's biggest casino.
Canada's Sidney Crosby celebrates after scoring the game winning goal against the U.S. during overtime in their men's ice hockey gold medal game at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Todd KorolReuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.
Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.
They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did -- but not much
Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell from the sky on to the driveway of a Somerset house.
The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and Playboy playmate.
They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did -- but not much.
A Kansas man told police officers that he had been beaten and left with a head wound after he tried to buy drugs using Monopoly money.
A woman in Kentucky who didn't even know she was pregnant unexpectedly gave birth to her son before picking up her other son from school and visiting the child's grandma before finally deciding to go to hospital.
It's not an ingredient you are used to using. But a Chelsea chef is using breast milk to make cheese.
Bank of America apologised to a woman after one of its contractors allegedly trashed her house and took her parrot while wrongly repossessing her home.
Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Ezequiel ScagnettiReuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.
A pair of embracing students from Greater Manchester break the world record for the longest hug.
Daniel Angerer, head chef at Klee Brasserie in New York, has created breast milk cheese for experimental customers from his wife's excess produce. lac


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