Jakarta police want Playboy to put off next issue
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
Reuters - Jakarta's police chief said Thursday
that the Indonesia publishers of Playboy magazine should put
off their next issue after attacks on their offices.
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Police return $42,000 thrown out with trash
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
Reuters - A Japanese man wept for joy this week
when he recovered 5 million yen ($42,210) in cash his wife had
mistakenly thrown out with the household rubbish.
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Every 10-year-old kid knows that...
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
Reuters - It's a "factual reality" that
beans make you break wind, says South Africa's advertising
watchdog.
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Lost Postcard Returned 50 Years Later
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
A postcard sent from a home in Florida to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with a "return to sender" stamp - and its 1956 postmark.
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Police return small fortune thrown out with trash
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
Reuters - A Japanese man wept for joy this week
when he recovered 5 million yen (24,000 pounds) in cash his
wife had mistakenly thrown out with the household rubbish.
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Doctor: Tiger That Killed Woman Was Starving
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
The Bengal tiger that attacked and killed its owner in rural Minnesota last week was starving and only weighed about half as much as it should have, according to a report from a University of Minnesota veterinarian.
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Rhinestone Couturier Dead At 92
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
Helen Cohn, who along with her husband helped clothe Elvis Presley, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and a host of stars in rhinestone creations during the height of cowboy chic, has died. She was 92.
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Puppy Smuggler Caught At Border
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
Officials seized 28 puppies from a driver who tried to smuggle them across the U.S.-Mexico border into San Diego. Some of the puppies required immediate medical attention and were taken to an emergency veterinary clinic.
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Gala Books Wrong Jon Stewart
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,13
An embarrassed charter school in Odgen, Utah, booked the wrong Jon Stewart for its annual gala. The DaVinci Academy thought it had made a deal with comedian Jon Stewart, star of "The Daily Show," but instead found out they scheduled a former motivational speaker, businessman and part-time professional wrestler from Chicago.
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Cat Rescue In New York Underway
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
A rather bizarre rescue is underway in New York City's Greenwich Village, a rescue that you've not likely seen before. A kitten named Molly is trapped inside the wall of a deli, trapped for nearly two weeks.
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Feds Pounce on Student Dresses As a Ninja
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - Running through the University of Georgia campus as a ninja can elicit a prompt response from authorities, a UGA sophomore learned.
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Boy Sets Self on Fire in Alleged Gas Theft
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - A teenage boy accidentally set himself on fire early Wednesday morning after allegedly trying to siphon gas from a firefighter's car.
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N.Y. Rescuers Go High-Tech to Save Cat
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - Rescuers used drills, miniature cameras, cat food and even a 1-pound raw fish in a desperate effort Wednesday to entice an 11-month old cat named Molly from behind the basement wall of a Greenwich Village delicatessen where she has been trapped for 12 days.
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Eating frogs kept lost man alive
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
A Brisbane man, who was lost in the Australian outback for up to three months, says he survived by eating frogs and lizards.
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Utah School Books the Wrong Jon Stewart
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - An embarrassed charter school has discovered it booked the wrong Jon Stewart for its annual gala. The DaVinci Academy thought it had made a deal with comedian Jon Stewart, star of "The Daily Show" and host of this year's Academy Awards, to appear next week.
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West Coast Pigeon Finds Home in Wisconsin
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - A pigeon native to the West Coast has taken roost in western Wisconsin and caused somewhat of a stir among birdwatchers in the state.
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Man Accused Trying to Steal Back His Dog
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - When Thomas Carroll couldn't come up with the $125 in fines and fees to bail his pet Weimaraner out of the dog pound, investigators say he broke into the pound to free his pooch and three others.
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Effort To Save Kitten In NYC Resume
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Rescuers used drills, miniature cameras and a raw fish Wednesday to try to lure a kitten that has been trapped for 12 days behind a delicatessen's basement wall in New York City.
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S.Africa man barred from bank
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - A South African judge on Wednesday
barred a dissatisfied customer from entering any Absa bank
branch after his pet snakes bit one person when he released
them inside the headquarters of the country's largest bank.
( read more )
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Teens Busted After Beer Theft Goes Horribly Wrong
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Two young men looking for a good time are now in big trouble. It's a beer heist gone wrong, and its all caught on tape.
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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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S.Africa bars snake man from bank
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - A South African judge on Wednesday
barred a dissatisfied customer from entering any Absa bank
branch after his pet snakes bit one person when he released
them inside the headquarters of the country's largest bank.
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Rescuers Renew Effort to Save Kitten
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
AP - Rescuers used drills, miniature cameras and a raw fish Wednesday to try to lure a kitten that has been trapped for 12 days behind a delicatessen's basement wall.
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You can come back when you just have a cat...
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - A South African judge on Wednesday
barred a dissatisfied customer from entering any Absa bank
branch after his pet snakes bit one person when he released
them inside the headquarters of the country's largest bank.
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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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Woman loses "Lotto Rapist" compensation appeal
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - The elderly victim of a convicted rapist
lost a legal bid Wednesday to make the attacker pay
compensation after he won millions on Britain's national
lottery while in prison.
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As the nation has fewer and fewer children, Japanese toy companies have found a vein of gold among grown-up kids, who are snapping ...
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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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Indonesians Stone Playboy Offices
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
A group of Muslims protesting Playboy's decision to launch an Indonesian edition of the magazine clashed with police Wednesday and stoned the company's editorial offices, witnesses said.
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Couple's 6 Babies Never Existed
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Authorities are saying the claims of a Missouri couple to have given birth to sextuplets were a hoax aimed at tapping the generosity of others to pay for mounting bills.
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McEnroe's "ghost" stalks museum
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - A ghostly John McEnroe and Maria
Sharapova's pulsing heart are two of the more eye-catching
sights at the new Wimbledon tennis museum which opened on
Wednesday.
( read more )
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It's official -- beans make you fart
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - It's a "factual reality" that
beans make you break wind, says South Africa's advertising
watchdog.
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Kalou fights spoof ad showing him on German team
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - Ivory Coast-born Salomon Kalou,
denied the chance to play for the Netherlands at the World Cup,
wants a spoof advert showing him playing for Germany withdrawn.
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Norwegians relish annual Easter crime wave
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - It's murder in Norway at Easter.
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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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Scandal reveals underworld of gossip
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - A full-scale tabloid war has erupted
in New York over the integrity of the people who produce what
you might not believe anyway -- gossip.
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Coffee shop job: good pay, bad commute
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - Canada is willing to pay top
dollar so that its soldiers in Afghanistan are served the kind
of coffee and treats they crave.
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Time for the annual Easter crime wave
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - It's murder in Norway at Easter.
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Here come the rat-tailed maggot?
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - Rat-tailed maggots, every bit as ugly
as they sound, have been popping out of basins, toilets and
taps across Cape Town, sparking a citywide panic that health
officials tried Wednesday to calm.
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Eight brides for eight sailors
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - Eight U.S. sailors at a Florida naval
station fraudulently married Polish and Romanian women in order
to collect extra housing allowances, according to federal
charges filed on Tuesday.
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Biologist battles killer pythons in Florida park
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - The man
leading efforts to eradicate giant Burmese python snakes from
Everglades National Park sounds almost fearful, and certainly
not optimistic, when he talks about the chances of wiping out
an invasive species he calls "the enemy."
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Coyotes Prowl Into Chicago
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
A pack of city-dwelling coyotes has a Chicago family worried about the safety of their children and pets after the animals were seen prowling a nearby vacant lot.
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Iceland tops Internet broadband league
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - Iceland had the highest concentration
of broadband Internet users in 2005, but the United States
still leads in absolute numbers with more than double the
connections of Japan, a survey showed on Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka turns back the clocks
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - For Buddhist monks and astrologers,
when Sri Lanka permanently puts its clocks back thirty minutes
at midnight on Friday, the island is putting itself back in
sync with the stars and planets.
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Employer's joke dashes maid's Playboy hopes
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - An Indonesian maid posed in her
underwear for pictures her female employer promised would
appear in the Indonesian version of Playboy, but complained
after receiving no payment, a Malaysian social group said on
Wednesday. Playboy magazine caused a stir at its launch in
Indonesia last week, despite having less skin on display than
U.S. issues of 50 years ago.
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Pilot caught trying to fly plane while drunk
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - An Indian low-cost airline suspended a
pilot after he was found drunk shortly before he was due to fly
an aircraft with about 100 passengers on board, officials said
on Wednesday.
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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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US Sailors took sham brides to boost pay
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,12
Reuters - Eight U.S. sailors at a Florida naval
station fraudulently married Polish and Romanian women in order
to collect extra housing allowances, according to federal
charges filed on Tuesday.
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Today is Wednesday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2006. There are 263 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Passover begins at sunset.
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