Civic Pride: Mel's Dad Is New Mayor
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,17
The father of England footballer Theo Walcott's girlfriend became the butt of a few jokes when he was invested as a mayor.John Slade, the father of 17-year-old Melanie, became the 784th mayor of Southampton in a ceremony at the city's Guild Hall.
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Ga. Governor, Teens Party After Prom
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,15
Georgia's governor, Sonny Perdue, has earned some cool with the kids: He hosted five busloads of high school students over at his place for an after-prom party featuring more dancing, food from sponsors, and a wall of videogames.
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BBC: Internet 'Expert' Just A Cabbie
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,15
The BBC has admitted it was taken for a ride by a cabbie. The network has apologized to its viewers for a studio mix-up that resulted in a cab driver appearing on live television as an expert on Internet music downloads.
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Groomer Launches Doggie Web Radio
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday May,12
A Thai entrepreneur has launched an Internet radio station to put dogs in a better mood. During classes, he turns on music for the dogs because "the music puts the dogs in a good mood and they're more willing to let the groomers handle them," he said.
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Employers offered World Cup sickies insurance
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,09
A Dutch insurer is offering employers in the country the chance to insure themselves against the sudden rise in staff sick days expected during next month's soccer World Cup.
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Broadway Lawyers Relent On Stopping School Play
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,09
Disappointment turned into joy at a Bronx high school Tuesday, as New York students learned that they will be able to stage the musical "Chicago" after all despite being close to a current Broadway production.
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Jessica Lynch Ends First Year Of College
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,08
Three years after her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue in the early days of the Iraq war made her an instant celebrity, Jessica Lynch yearns for the ordinary
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Best Bush Moment Was Catching Fish
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,08
George W Bush says his best moment as president was the time he caught a 7.5lb largemouth bass.During more than five years in office, Mr Bush has been to some of the world's most impressive cities, met with world leaders and entertained celebrities.
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Bush's Best Moment Was Catching Fish
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday May,07
George W Bush says his best moment as president was the time he caught a 7.5lb largemouth bass.During more than five years in office, Mr Bush has been to some of the world's most impressive cities, met with world leaders and entertained celebrities.
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Poll: 4 In 10 Play Electronic Games
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday May,07
Millions of people in this country don't automatically reach for the television remote control when they want to be entertained. They turn to electronic games for diversion.
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National Spelling Bee Goes Prime Time
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,03
Move over "American Idol." For the first time in its 79-year history, the National Spelling Bee -- the original "reality TV" -- will go prime time for next month's drama-filled finals. Thanks to recent movies, books and even a Broadway play, young spellers are suddenly hot.
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Streakers face bigger fines in Germany
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,29
Streakers in Germany not only risk sunburn to sensitive parts of their anatomy if they dart on to the pitch to interrupt soccer matches, but also face increased fines following a ruling by a state court.
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Eye The Anaconda Survives Music Store Fire
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,27
Firefighters expected to find only charred debris when they poked through the burned out hulk of a music store. Instead, they stumbled upon a slithering, 6-foot anaconda.
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Eye the Anaconda Survives Music Store Fire
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,26
AP - Firefighters expected to find only charred debris when they poked through the burned out hulk of a music store. Instead, they stumbled upon a slithering, 6-foot anaconda.
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Copperfield's Magic Foils Robbery
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,26
David Copperfield has magically escaped getting robbed. When confronted by four muggers in Florida, the illusionist turned his pockets inside out to show nothing there - hiding his wallet, passport and cell phone with sleight of hand.
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Critics pour scorn, cliches on NY vampire musical
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,26
Reuters - The third vampire musical to try its
luck on Broadway in four years drew all the familiar puns in
scathing reviews Thursday that said "Lestat" was "bloody
awful," "sucked of life" and the "kiss of death."
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Life imitates art as thief returns baby
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,24
A thief in South Africa safely returned a seven-week-old baby he discovered in a car he had stolen, in a real-life incident that could have come out of the local Oscar-winning movie Tsotsi.
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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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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
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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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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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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"Mrs Noisy" gets year in prison
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
Reuters - A woman who made herself a minor
celebrity in Japan by constantly screaming insults at
passers-by and blaring out music while beating bedding on her
balcony, was sentenced to a year in jail Friday for causing
physical harm.
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Rocking round-the-clock lands Japanese woman in prison
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,21
A Japanese woman was sentenced to one year in prison for bombarding her neighbours with loud music day and night for two and a half years.
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Ala. Students Expelled for Showing Porno
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
AP - Three eighth-graders have been expelled from Bay Minette Middle School for showing a pornographic movie in their classroom while the teacher's back was turned.
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Football Fans Urged To Sing In German
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
English football fans are being urged to learn the German versions of well-known football chants ahead of this year's World Cup.It comes as the official England supporters' club calls on fans not to sing potentially offensive war-related songs at this summer's tournament, such as the Dambusters theme.
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England fans urged to chant in German
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
Reuters - England fans are being encouraged to
learn the German versions of well known football chants before
the World Cup.
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English Fans Get World Cup Language Tips
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 AP - The British government is giving English soccer fans attending the World Cup in Germany some helpful hints, including translations of phrases like, "Can I have a beer, please?"
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Steaua boss asks God for help against Middlesbrough
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 Reuters - Steaua Bucharest's owner travelled to
Greece this week to ask God to help his club win the UEFA Cup.
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Club forces players to take lie detector tests
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Players at a Romanian first division soccer club will be forced to take lie detector tests after losing two matches.
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Gottfried Tops Unsexiest Men List
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of the AFLAC duck, has been named the Unsexiest Man in the World from a mix of entertainers, sports stars, even terrorists. Osama bin Laden is number eight on the list.
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Australian Cheerleaders Told To Cover Up
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
Australian cheerleaders have been banned from baring midriffs by officials of the sport who fear displays of skin may encourage eating disorders.
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Australian Cheerleaders Told to Cover Up
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
AP - Australian cheerleaders have been banned from baring midriffs by officials of the sport who fear displays of skin may encourage eating disorders.
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"Olympic" pigs put through their paces
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
 Reuters - Hundreds of Russians gathered for the
first day of the annual "pig Olympics" on Saturday, cheering a
field of 12 piglets who competed in three events: pig-racing,
pig-swimming and "pigball".
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MTA Employee Who Retired At 100 Has Died In Sleep
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,14
Arthur Winston, the longtime Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee who retired last month at age 100, died in his sleep, his family and the MTA announced Friday.
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Thieves steal ancient cannon from barracks
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
Reuters - Police are hunting for thieves who stole
a 200-year-old cannon from outside a military barracks in
Gosport.
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Corleone names street for Mafia boss' arrest
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
 Reuters - The Sicilian hill town made
famous by the Godfather films is naming a street "April 11" to
commemorate the day when police captured the head of the Mafia,
Bernardo Provenzano, after four decades on the run.
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Japanese 'New World' Stinks
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
A theater audience in Japan will be sniffing their noses literally at a Colin Farrell's Hollywood adventure film when it opens in Tokyo later this month.
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Swedish Court: No Commericals During Films
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a TV station violated the artistic integrity of two filmmakers by interrupting their movies with commercial breaks.
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Movie-Goers Getting Smells to Match Scenes
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - A theater audience in Japan will be sniffing their noses — literally — at a new Hollywood adventure film when it opens here later this month.
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Indian court orders reopening of Mumbai dance bars
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - An Indian court Wednesday struck down a
ban on dance bars in Mumbai, saying that the closure of the
popular adult-entertainment joints which left thousands of
young women jobless was "unconstitutional."
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Naive no more, actress Mol takes on pinup Page
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
 Reuters - Call it a tale of two women: both
young and pretty and naive about a business that can chew up
starlets and spit them out fast.
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Court: Ads Violate Filmmakers' Integrity
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a TV station violated the artistic integrity of two filmmakers by interrupting their movies with commercial breaks.
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Cheers, boos as Cheney opens U.S. baseball game
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,11
 Reuters - A loud mixture of cheers and boos
greeted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday as he threw
out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals
baseball game.
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"'Mr. Switzerland" to entice women during World Cup
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,11
Reuters - For women bored at the thought of this
summer's World Cup soccer finals in Germany, neighbor
Switzerland is offering an alternative packed with beefcake.
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'Brokeback' Banned In Massachusetts Prison
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,10
A controversy is brewing over a screening of the Oscar winning film "Brokeback Mountain" at a Massachusetts prison.
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`Tarzan' Chimp Celebrates 74th Birthday
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,10
AP - Cheeta the chimp, star of a dozen "Tarzan" movies in the 1930s and 1940s, celebrated his 74th birthday with sugar-free cake.
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Die-hard soccer fans take zeal to grave
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,10
Reuters - Many fans of
Argentina's most popular soccer team, Boca Juniors, pledge
eternal devotion to the club. And with new Boca caskets on
sale, they can put their money where their mouths are.
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Die-hard fans take passion to the grave
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,07
Fans of Argentina's most popular football team are being given the chance to buy their own coffins decorated in the club's colours.
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MIT Students Nab Caltech's Cannon
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,07
Pranksters dressed as movers made off with the California Institute of Technology's famed Fleming House cannon, transporting it across country to Cambridge, Mass., to be displayed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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