Brothel made to remove Saudi, Iran flags
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
 Reuters - A brothel in Cologne was forced to black
out the flags of Saudi Arabia and Iran from a huge World Cup
soccer-themed advertising banner after angry Muslims complained
and threatened violence.
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(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - It's a patient's worst
nightmare -- to wake up from surgery to find that the surgeon
has operated on the wrong organ or limb. It happens, but
thankfully not often, according to a new report.
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Axe-wielding men abduct dad from wedding
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - Three Zimbabwe men prevented their
father from committing bigamy by abducting him from his own
wedding, the state-owned Sunday Mail reported.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
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Turk official arrested for chewing gum at ceremony
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - An official in Turkey's ruling party has
been arrested for chewing gum while laying a wreath at a
monument to the country's revered founder Kemal Ataturk, the
state Anatolian news agency said on Monday.
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Turk Is Chewed Out Over Chewing Gum
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
AP - The leader of a local branch of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted party was charged with insulting Turkey's founding leader on Monday for chewing gum while he laid a wreath during a ceremony, the Anatolia news agency reported.
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Scientists Probe New Uses For Tongues
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, military researchers in Florida hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish.
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China's Army Rejects Snorers
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
AP - No drug users, no tattoos, and no heavy snorers.
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Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.
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Czech coalition party turns liberal in vote quest
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - A small party in the Czech coalition
government has swapped its centre-right image for toleration of
graffiti and marijuana in a late bid to win more votes in the
June 2-3 parliamentary election.
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Brothel made to remove S.Arabia, Iran flags
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - A brothel in Cologne was forced to black
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Lamb sacrifice in vain
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - The sacrifice of a lamb by Bulgarian
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Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
AP - Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.
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'Dorkbot' Groups Find Following Among Technophiles
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
A new craze in technophilia is attracting people to "Dorkbot" meetings, a loose forum for the exchange of creative technological ideas from New York to Tokyo.
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Iran to Let Women Go to Soccer Games
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
AP - Iranian women will be allowed to attend soccer matches for first time since the country's 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's president said in a decree posted on his Web site Monday.
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Calif. Man Swallowed By Ground Under His Home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
It was like a scene from a horror film: A 27-year-old man plummeted into a gaping hole that suddenly opened beneath a house in rural Placer County, Calif., trapping him beneath foundation rubble and killing him.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
A mummified baby that's belonged to a New Hampshire family for decades is being investigated by the state attorney general's office after a child relative told another child her uncle was a killer and had a dead bady.
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Woman nabbed driving corpse across country
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - A 53-year-old German woman who was
driving her dead mother across country to save on mortuary
transportation costs was fined by police for disturbing a dead
person's peace.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Princes William and Harry have been nicknamed Posh and Taff by fellow Sandhurst cadets, it has been revealed.William was dubbed Posh - like Posh Spice Victoria Beckham - because of his plummy accent.
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Cleaning 'The New Therapy' For Women
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Cleaning the house helps women feel in control of their lives, new research suggests.Despite spending longer in the workplace, nearly half the respondents (46%) described themselves as "cleanaholics".
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Clinic Delivers Botox To Your Door
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
You may not be able to get them out for an emergency but one enterprising doctors' practice will do house calls - to offer Botox treatment.A range of cosmetic treatments in the home has been made available in central London by a group of five doctors.
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Today In History - April 24, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Today is Monday, April 24th, the 114th day of 2006. There are 251 days left in the year.
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China's army bans snorers, tattoo-wearers
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
Reuters - China's army recruits can look forward
to a better night's sleep thanks to a new regulation banning
chronic snorers from joining up.
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Celebrations For Queen Elizabeth Conclude
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
Surrounded by family, friends and hundred of guests, Queen Elizabeth II attended a service of thanksgiving at Windsor Castle on Sunday at the end of five days of festivities marking her 80th birthday.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
A British couple has given a new twist to the idea of running away together by competing in the London marathon in their wedding clothes and getting married halfway around the course.
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'W' Gets Its Own Place In Swedish Language
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
The letter 'W' has entered the mainstream of the Swedish language, getting its own section for the first time in the country's most respected dictionary.
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Oregon Man Survives 12 Nails To The Head
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.
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Carpenter Charged With Working In The Buff
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
A carpenter who keeps his clothes clean by working in the nude was arrested after a client returned home early and found him building bookcases in the buff.
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Man Recovered From Raft Puzzles Swedes
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
Swedish authorities Saturday were investigating how a man calling himself a "stateless American" ended up floating on a raft of oil barrels and wood planks in the waters between Denmark and Norway.
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Researchers Probe Ghost Sightings On Ship
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer.
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Air Force One Subject Of Internet Hoax
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.
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Carpenter Charged With Working in the Buff
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
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Get outta here! Cruise baby name puzzles Israelis
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
Reuters - Suri, the name chosen by Hollywood
couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their newborn daughter,
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
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Fabulous bling, comrade: London hosts Russia's rich
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
Reuters - Dust off your bling and your Dolce and
Gabbana: the Russians are coming to London -- and they are
bringing their roubles.
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Researchers Probe Ghost Sightings on Ship
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,23
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Lost Costa Rica minister found with tapir bite
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
Reuters - Search parties found Costa
Rica's missing energy and environment minister on Saturday
suffering from a nasty bite by a wild tapir, after he got lost
in a jungle reserve two days earlier.
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Man Recovered From Raft Puzzles Swedes
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
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House Blasted By 3,000 Gallons Of Sewage
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
Utility workers trying to blast out a grease clog from a sewer line forced 3,000 gallons of raw sewage into a couple's home, forcing them to abandon their house while hoping that the city makes good on a promise to clean up and repair the damage.
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Farmers unearth bomb amongst potatoes
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
Army bomb disposal experts are flying to Tasmania this morning after a live mortar bomb was unearthed in a paddock.
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Dutch PM admits to being "a bit boring"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
 Reuters - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter
Balkenende has admitted to being "maybe a bit boring", news
agency ANP reported on Saturday.
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Singing Berlusconi's out but not down
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has acknowledged defeat with a song, instead of the customary phone call to the victor.
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Cruise baby name has many meanings, expert says
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
 Reuters - It's a Nubian tribe, the word for
"rose" in Persian, the "sun" in Sanskrit and, oh yes, it's also
an obscure variation on the Hebrew name Sarah and refers to
form of an Alpaca's wool.
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Modern building rises in heart of ancient Rome
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
 Reuters - After years of controversy, Rome on Friday
unveiled the first modern building to rise in its ancient
centre since dictator Benito Mussolini ruled Italy more than
half a century ago.
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Oregon Man Survives 12 Nails To The Head
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.
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Cat Nurses Rejected Pug Puppy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
A pug puppy rejected by his mother has found a new, more welcoming family a cat and her three kittens.
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Texas Woman, 76, Faces Heroin Charges
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,22
A 76-year-old woman accused of producing and selling heroin from her home has been arrested. Esther Gomez had allegedly been selling black-tar heroin out of her home for years, according to Bexar County Sheriff's Lt. Darrell Sanders.
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