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May 14, 2013
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Angelina Jolie has healthy breasts removed Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of cancer. Her mother died from cancer aged 56. Angelina Jolie has revealed that she recently underwent a preventative double mastectomy. The actress, whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer...
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Print Your Own Gun

May 7, 2013
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Robert MacPherson Computer files to create a handgun almost entirely from parts made with a 3D printer have been posted online, alarming gun control advocates after it was successfully test-fired by its inventor. The single-shot .380-caliber Liberator bears a vague resemblance to its namesake, the FP-45 Liberator pistol the US developed during World War...
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Totally Nuts!

April 28, 2013
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No nuts warning on bag of nuts. Booths decided to pull its Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts from the aisles because its label does not declare it contains peanuts, MSN News reports. The firm has stores in Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire, Cheshire and a recently-opened branch at MediaCityUK in Salford. A spokesman for the company...
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Judge fines himself over phone in court

April 18, 2013
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A MICHIGAN judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $US25 ($24) for the infraction. Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, the Sentinel-Standard of Ionia...
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Chimpanzee addicted to porn

April 18, 2013
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GINA the chimp has a problem. She’s addicted to adult human porn. The first question you may have is how a chimp came to watch TV. That one is simple. A television set was installed in her enclosure at Seville Zoo. But maybe the zoo regrets the decision now. Primatologist Pablo Herreros told El...
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PETA want to ban naked chickens in supermarkets

April 18, 2013
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ANIMAL welfare extremists want to ban the display of naked chickens in supermarkets. They also protest against pictures of raw chickens in ads. The American founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, president Ingrid Newkirk, criticised a newspaper for running a picture of a raw chicken. Other supporters expressed disgust at the...
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Anne Frank would have been a Belieber, hopes Bieber

April 16, 2013
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Justin Bieber performs at the Jingle Ball 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia in this Dec 12, 2012, file photo. Teen pop star Justin Bieber is taking heat on social media after the Anne Frank House reported he visited the Amsterdam museum and wrote in the guest book he hoped the young Holocaust victim would have...
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Teens arrested after young girl’s suicide

April 13, 2013
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MARTHA MENDOZA | Associated Press, Yahoo!7 Eight days after allegedly being sexually assaulted while passed out at a party, and then humiliated by online photos of the assault, 15-year-old Audrie Pott posted on Facebook that her life was ruined, ‘worst day ever,’ and hanged herself. For the next eight months, her family struggled to...
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World’s first womb transplant woman pregnant

April 13, 2013

ISTANBUL (AFP) – The first woman ever to receive a uterus from a deceased donor, is two-weeks pregnant following a successful embryo transplant, her doctors said on Friday. The 22-year-old Derya Sert was revealed to be almost two-weeks pregnant in preliminary results after in vitro fertilisation at Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey’s southern province...
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Man buys toy poodles, discovers they’re ferrets on steroids

April 9, 2013
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By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News Senior Media Reporter An Argentine man who thought he bought a pair of poodles at an outdoor market in Buenos Aires brought them home to the vet only to be told they were actually ferrets on steroids, reports the Daily Mail. The man, a retiree from Catamarca, purchased the animals...
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