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Woman sues funeral home for cremating husband's artificial leg
Sunday, 05 October 2008
artificial legA northern Idaho woman says a funeral home cremated her husband without permission and in the process destroyed an artificial leg worth more than $7,000.
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Russian scientists design mechanical nurse
Sunday, 05 October 2008
Robot NurseA group of scientists from the Moscow State University is currently developing a new medical appliance that will be capable of taking blood samples and making injections instead of nurses.
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Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
blood babyTwinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched.  She has even undergone transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet. Sometimes her condition is so bad she wakes up with her entire body covered in dried blood.
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World record set for balloon blowing with nose, on US talk show
Friday, 19 September 2008
Teen Andrew Dahl set an arcane world record today on the television show Live with Regis and Kelly. Starting before the show, Dahl started blowing up balloons with his left nostril, continuing for the next hour, hoping to beat the existing 213 balloon record.
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U2 fan ordered to destroy CDs
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
U2A man living in South Wales, United Kingdom was ordered to destroy his entire music collection after creating a ruckus by listening to the music at an extremely high volume. Police seized his stereo equipment in a raid. Karl Wiosna, a 44-year-old resident of Graig in Pontypridd, was playing Cher's album Believe at extremely high volume. His neighbours complained under the Environmental Protection Act and he was warned not to play the album at such high volume. However, he thought the warning was only for the Cher album, and he then started to listen to a U2 album a week later. His neighbors said they could hear the lyrics in their living room.
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Nepal officials strike after minister locks official in toilet
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Workers in a Nepalese local government office have gone on strike in protest against actions made by Matrika Yadav, the minister for Forest and Soil Conservation.

Yadav caused controversy after locking up Dandu Raj Ghimire, a local development officer in a toilet. Protesters said that this action was an "inhumane and objectionable act."
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British teenager finds baby bat in her bra
Monday, 14 July 2008
Abbie Hawkins, a Norwich, United Kingdom hotel receptionist, 19, has found a baby bat in her bra. Hawkins originally mistook the bat for her cellphone.
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Hitler's head ripped off at wax museum opening
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
A man ripped off the head of a wax model of Adolf Hitler during the opening ceremony of a museum in Berlin, Germany.
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Hot dog eating champion retains title after tiebreaker
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
JoeychestnutFor the second year in a row, American competitive eater Joey Chestnut defeated his Japanese rival Takeru Kobayashi at the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City, after a tie forced a five hot dog eat-off to be held.
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Truck carrying 12 million bees overturns in New Brunswick
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
A truck on the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick, Canada, carrying 12 million bees has overturned. The truck was carrying 330 crates of bees when it tipped on a ramp in Saint-Léonard. The bees were used to help pollinate blueberries, and were heading back to Ontario.
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Man auctions life, but disappointed at bid price
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
ebayAfter auctioning off his entire life on eBay for A$399,300, Ian Usher says he is "a little bit disappointed" at the final selling price.
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'Pregnancy pact' grabs international attention for small Massachusetts town
Monday, 23 June 2008
A supposed "pregnancy pact" at Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Massachusetts has drawn international attention to the small Massachusetts fishing city which is considered to be one of the oldest settlements (1623) in the American continent.
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Nepal officials strike after minister locks official in toilet
Friday, 20 June 2008
Workers in a Nepalese local government office have gone on strike in protest against actions made by Matrika Yadav, the minister for Forest and Soil Conservation.
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Hundreds of cyclists take part in 2008 London Naked Bike Ride
Sunday, 15 June 2008
London_Naked_Bike_RidePeople in London yesterday were surprised to see hundreds of cyclists in varying degrees of nakedness riding through the city as the annual London Naked Bike Ride took place, one of many other rides as part of World Naked Bike Ride. The ride was intended to protest against oil dependency and celebrate cycling and the human body.
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Monkey uses garden hose to flee Indiana zoo
Saturday, 14 June 2008
A spider monkey used a garden hose to scale the wall of a moat at a Michigan City zoo before being captured at a nearby boat dealership.
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Million-dollar trial aborted on account of sudoku
Friday, 13 June 2008
A drug trial in Sydney, Australia was aborted yesterday after several jurors were found to be playing sudoku puzzles during proceedings.
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Romanian fighter jet hit by UFOs
Friday, 13 June 2008
Officials from the Romanian Defense Military confirmed that one of their MiG-21 Lancer fighter planes was struck by four Unidentified Flying Objects on October 31, 2007, which shattered the plane's cockpit. The military also released a video captured by the plane's on-board camera as it was flying above Transylvania.
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