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News of the weird and strange from around the world

Monday, January 22, 2007

Man survives 17 storey fall

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An American man has survived after falling 17 floors from the window of a hotel in the US city of Minneapolis. Joshua Hanson, 29, landed on ...

Skateboarder makes it

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A British man who has travelled almost 6,000 kilometres across Australia on a skateboard says he has set a new world record after arriving i...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Natto so good

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Top Japanese television executives have abjectly apologised for airing a programme based on fabricated data that sparked a run on natto -- s...

Man rescued from cupboard

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A central Christchurch worker was rescued from a large cupboard by the fire service yesterday. The man, who did not want to be identified, a...

Ring found after 9 months

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An Australian man who lost his wedding ring while swimming near an Indonesian island last April was reunited with it nine months later thank...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

An apple a day .... = detention

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Parents have slammed a headmaster after a pupil got a detention for eating an APPLE in the wrong place. Tom Bosley, 16, was nearly expelled ...
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Foster parents ????

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A foster mother has had a baby with a refugee from Eastern Europe whom she took in when he was 14. Julia Gregg, 34, and her husband, Steve C...

Grafitti house

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SAN MATEO — The Community Improvement Commission ordered a Shoreview resident Wednesday to remove cryptic messages written on her home or fa...

HERO

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A man who was fed up with paying massive bank charges decided to give one of the high street giants a taste of its own medicine. When Royal ...

Blind Justice

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A Spanish judge has let a blind man go free after accepting his explanation for driving at 154km/h (96mph). Domingo Merino was accused of fr...

Murder suspect; EVERYONE

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Miguel Grima was not a well-liked man. As mayor of a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Pyrenees in northern Spain he had ruffled a few fea...

Ingenious kid !

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A nine-year-old boy faces a string of criminal charges after he stole a car, led police on a high-speed chase and then flew across America a...

Ladders a no-no

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Firefighters have been told not to use ladders to fit smoke alarms in homes - in case they fall. Officers had been using householders' l...

Nice one Gordon !

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Chancellor Gordon Brown has provoked a storm by appearing to back England to host and win the football World Cup in 2018 - and not his nativ...

Pants !

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Police in a Wiltshire village have been trying to get to the bottom of an underwear mystery. Around 30 pairs of knickers have been draped ov...

Walking to the pole

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A UK team who have made history by reaching the centre of Antarctica without mechanical assistance have spoken of their epic journey. Henry...
Friday, January 19, 2007

The Brooklyn wall

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NEW YORK -- A divorce battle playing out in New York City has turned a Brooklyn home into something out of the Cold War. Chana and Simon Tau...

The Big Ballet Company

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A troupe of fat Russian ballerinas is to tour Britain, proving you don't have to be thin to be nimble. The Big Ballet Company was founde...

Miss behaving

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A 12-year-old girl was praised for her efforts in English in a report from school - an impressive achievement considering she was not a pupi...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Football crazy

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What started as a whacky idea on the messagebaord of the Cardiff City website looks like turning into a reality. Upset at the idea of being...
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