Britain obsessed with fame, addicted to junk food: Lonely Planet
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
A new Lonely Planet guidebook says Britons are obsessed with celebrity and addicted to junk food and ready meals.
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Marvel Introduces Latino Superhero Team
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
Marvel Entertainment Inc. editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, who in his seven-year tenure has shown an ability to push forward comic book tradition by encouraging controversial changes to characters and taking risks on portraying diversity.
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Student Spikes Teacher's Drink With Hand Cleaner
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,16
Police say a San Ysidro Middle School teacher needed medical treatment Wednesday because he drank a sports drink that had apparently been spiked with an alcohol-based hand cleaner.
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Chicago Must Nix Its Olympic Logo
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,16
The International Olympic Committee has ordered Chicago to dump its emblematic logo for its bid for the 2016 Summer Games -- a city skyline as the flames of a torch represented by a reflection of the skyline on Lake Michigan.
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Sex toy company pays damages to soccer stars
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,14
German sex shop chain Beate Uhse has to pay German soccer stars Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn 50,000 euros ($AU81,270) each for using their names for vibrators without permission.
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More Women Cheer For NASCAR
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday May,13
For all the beer and baseball caps, a NASCAR race is a surprisingly female-friendly affair. NASCAR says that in the past three years, the male-dominated circuit has seen a big surge in female fans.
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'Dukes of Hazzard' car deal crashes and burns
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,10
A multi-million dollar auction for the famous car from the The Dukes of Hazzard TV series has fallen through after the buyer failed to materialise, celebrity news site TMZ.com reports.
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Wisconsin Orders Gas Station To Raise Prices
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,09
A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
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Teacher Makes 7-Year-Old Hit Himself
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday May,04
A music teacher who twice ordered a seven-year-old pupil to hit himself in the head with drum mallets will not return to the Parkway School District next year.
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Sandy Koufax, 71, Drafted By Israeli Baseball Team
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,27
Forty-one years after he retired from baseball, Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax was the final player chosen in the draft to stock the six teams for the inaugural season of the Israel Baseball League.
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L.A. Times Sportswriter Announces Gender Switch
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,27
A veteran sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times said in his column Thursday that he is a transsexual. Mike Penner told readers of his struggle to embrace his gender, and said when he returns from vacation in a few weeks he will be known as Christine Daniels.
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Boy Gets Tackled At College Football Game
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,26
A little boy from Fort Collins who was injured while watching a scrimmage football game at Colorado State University was a guest on the CBS Early Show Wednesday morning.
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President Bush Dances With African Dancers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,25
African dancers and drum players entertained the President on the White House lawn Wednesday afternoon after he delivered a speech on Malaria Awareness Day.
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Presenter refuses to reveal MTV Russia film winner
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,22
Scandal hit MTV Russia's movie awards ceremony when a presenter refused to announce the viewer-voted award for best movie after realising which film had won.
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'Bomb, bomb, bomb' Iran, sings McCain
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,20
Republican US presidential contender John McCain turned to popular music to illuminate the debate on the Middle East, singing at the suggestion the United States "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran.
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Astronaut runs space marathon
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,17
An American astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) has set a new sporting record by running the Boston Marathon while in space, NASA says.
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German dog annoys neighbours with loud music
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,13
A German dog locked inside a caravan turned on his absent master's radio and left it blasting out music, setting off howls from neighbours and prompting police to cut power to the mobile home.
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'Aqua Teen' Film Opens In Boston With No Ad Stunts
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,13
"Aqua Teen Hunger Force" hits movies theaters on Friday, and Boston Mayor Tom Menino is hoping he will not be the only one not running the see it on the big screen.
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Orangutans Play Video Games At Georgia Zoo
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,12
Four-year-old Bernas isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and climbed trees. The two Sumatran orangutans at Zoo Atlanta are playing computer games while researchers study the cognitive skills of the orange and brown primates.
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Mayor's Errant Pitch Leads To 'Screwball' Sandwich
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
The Cincinnati mayor's errant ceremonial first pitch on baseball's opening day has inspired a sandwich with a fitting name: The Mark Mallory Screwball.
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Coke finds Jesus movie scene hard to swallow
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
An Italian film showing Jesus Christ drinking Coca-Cola has sparked such strong protest from the soft drink giant that it blocked the film's Easter weekend premiere.
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Naked Woman Shocks 'Last Mimzy' Family Audience
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,06
Parents and children alike were both frightened and astonished Thursday night when they visited a Holtsville movie theater on Long Island, where they had looked forward to seeing the PG rated "Last Mimzy," a movie about kids who develop secret powers.
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Ten arrested over Harry Potter train attack
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,05
British police have arrested 10 youths suspected of vandalising the Hogwarts Express, the steam train used in the blockbuster Harry Potter films.
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Chinese man wants Beijing free of flies for Olympics
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,04
A Beijing man hopes to rid the city of flies in time for the Olympic Games.
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Japan clocks world's longest concert
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,31
Hundreds of Japanese musicians have set a new world record for a non-stop concert, performing about 2,000 tunes consecutively over 182 hours.
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Lots Of Games, No Gambling At Legoland's Las Vegas
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,30
A powerful spring storm unleashed dozens of tornadoes as it moved through the Midwest on Wednesday and Thursday. Tornadoes or high winds are believed to have killed at least four people in three states, including a woman who was flung into a tree by a twister that witnesses said was as wide as two football fields.
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Cubans Win Baseball's World Series Of Weird Names
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,29
Major League Baseball gave us Van Lingle Mungo, Mickey Klutts, Urban Shocker and Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish. But in the World Series of weird baseball names, Cuba is a real contender.
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Daredevil condemned for escalator ski stunt
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,28
A man who filmed himself skiing down the longest escalator on London's underground rail network has been branded "dangerous, stupid and irresponsible".
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Ky. Couple Allegedly Offered Kid For $3,000, SUV
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
A Kentucky couple are charged with trying to sell a 15-month-old girl for $3,000 and a sport-utility vehicle.
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'Pimp Of The Year' Sentenced To 23 Years In Prison
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
A man who touted himself as "Pimp of the Year" was sentenced Friday to more than 23 years in federal prison.
Matthew "Knowledge" Thompkins pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to transport minors to engage in prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.
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DVD pirates put bounty on sniffer dogs
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,22
Malaysian officials say movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two police sniffer dogs who helped to bring down a fake DVD ring.
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Police: Football Coach Nearly Bit Man's Ear Off
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,19
An assistant football coach at Winthrop High School in Massachusetts has been charged in a brutal attack in which police say he nearly bit a man's ear off.
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Celery-wielding Chelsea fans face ban
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,17
A British football club has warned their fans against throwing celery during matches, saying it was a criminal offence and that anyone caught lobbing the popular salad vegetable could be banned.
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Block of ice falls out of sky in Spain
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,16
A football-sized block of ice fell out of the sky on to the roof of an industrial building in Madrid, police say, denting the roof but without causing injuries.
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USPS Uses The Force: R2-D2 To Collect Mail
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,16
Thirty years ago, in theaters near and far, far away, "Star Wars" opened the imaginations of millions. A star of those films - the brave little robot R2-D2 - is about to take a turn collecting mail as the Postal Service and Lucasfilm Ltd. commemorate that movie launch.
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Scholar: 'Jesus Tomb' Makers Mistaken
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Mar,14
A scholar looking into the factual basis of a popular but widely criticized documentary that claims to have located the tomb of Jesus said Tuesday that a crucial piece of evidence filmmakers used to support their claim is a mistake.
CBS News Interactive: Eye On Religion
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Springfields Compete To Host 'Simpsons' Premiere
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,09
Springfield, the Oregon one, is on a list of like-named towns competing for the big-screen debut of Homer, Bart and the rest of the TV Simpson family this summer. 20th Century Fox is inviting cities named Springfield to host the premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" in July.
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Teacher Allegedly Whacks Child With Bow
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,09
A substitute music teacher has been arrested after allegedly whacking a 10-year-old student on the head with a viola bow after telling the class they were "the worst players I've ever heard."
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Man Burns Genitals In 'Jackass' Stunt
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,08
Attempts to do a movie stunt landed one man in the hospital with burned genitals and another facing criminal charges. The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the "Jackass" movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire.
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Authority plans to have evaporation covered
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,01
A plastic cover the size of about six football fields will be placed over a reservoir in far west New South Wales to help stop evaporation.
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Man Makes Music On Ice Instruments
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Feb,27
Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset recently gave a musical performance on instruments made of ice at Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido, Japan.
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Baseball Card Sells For Record $2.3 Million
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Feb,27
The "Holy Grail of baseball cards," the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has sold for a record-setting $2.35 million, the seller of the card said Monday.
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Scholars Dismiss Jesus Documentary
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Feb,27
An Oscar-winning director is about to challenge the most elemental tenets of Christianity, claiming the bones of Jesus Christ were found in a Jerusalem tomb, but many archaeologists and clergymen have been quick to cast doubt on the movie's assertions.
CBS News Interactive: Eye On Religion
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Divers compete in ice hockey world championship ... underwater
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Feb,25
The lake of Weissensee in southern Austria hosted an unusual sporting event this weekend, with divers taking part in the first-ever ice-hockey world championship - underwater ice-hockey, that is.
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Drought forces mud racers to head north
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
The drought in Victoria has forced a national sporting event to be moved to Darwin.
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Armed Man Who Mistook Porn Sounds For Rape Charged
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
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Maytag Holds Casting Call For Ol' Lonely Repairman
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
What do a bus driver, police officer, stockbroker and a professional football player all have in common? They all want to be the next Maytag Repairman.
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Envoy seeks to dispel 'Borat' image
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
Kazakhstan's envoy to the United States today defended his country against "misconceptions" caused by the hit comedy film Borat and its misogynistic, anti-Semitic, fictional Kazakh TV reporter.
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New Video Shows JFK Moments Before Assassination
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Feb,19
A recently discovered home movie shows a brief but clear glimpse of President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy just seconds before his assassination.
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Italians To Play Soccer With No Fans
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,08
Only six soccer stadiums in Italy meet security requirements, meaning that league games in other arenas will be played without fans following last week's death of a police officer during riots at a game in Sicily.
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