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Scotland’s Dull And America’s Boring Join Up

April 26, 2012
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James Matthews, Scotland correspondent The Dull and Boring plan was hatched after a resident of Dull, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, cycled through Boring in Oregon. The Dull folk of Perthshire then contacted their Boring counterparts across the Atlantic with a view to striking up the partnership. It may be dull and boring but the two towns...
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Church airbrushes out leader’s $30K watch

April 7, 2012
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This photo, posted on the church’s web-site caused a scandal when the site’s editors erased the patriarch’s watch. Photo: AP. Source: Sunday Herald Sun IT could have been an Easter miracle but the mystery of a “disappearing” $30,000 watch from the wrist of the most senior member of the Russian Orthodox Church has actually...
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The goose who wears sandals

April 6, 2012
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Gator the rescue goose’s adoptive parents, Bob and Lauree Strouse, were so concerned his feet would suffer on their walks, they got him a pair of sandals. Gator enjoys the freedom of St Augustine in his smart new sandals (Picture: Mercury) The couple designed the footwear to combat the hot and harsh concrete in...
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Austrian man saws off own foot to avoid work

March 29, 2012
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VIENNA (Reuters) – An unemployed Austrian man sawed his foot off, apparently to avoid being found fit to go back to work. Hours before an appointment on Monday for the labor office to check on his health, the 56-year-old man held his left leg against an electric saw in his home workshop and severed...
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You’ve won billions! Ah … sorry, no you haven’t

March 23, 2012
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THREE hundred Danes believed a dream lifestyle of champagne and caviar awaited them this week after they were announced billionaire lottery winners – until they discovered it was a mistake. All 300 had received an email from the head of the Danish state-run lottery company, Danske Spil, congratulating them on the astronomical sums they...
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Julian Assange announces plan to run for the Australian Senate

March 17, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will run for a seat in Australia’s Senate. Source: The Daily Telegraph  WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, the whistleblower group has tweeted. Wikileaks announced its intentions today, saying the organisation also planned to field...
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Homeless people turned into WiFi hotspots

March 14, 2012
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A marketing project aimed at modernising street newspapers is turning homeless people into walking internet hotspots. The brainchild of branding company BBH New York, the Homeless Hotspots ‘initiative’ was spotted at a music and technology conference in Texas by a New York Times reporter, the Daily Mail reports. Homeless people dressed in T-shirts proclaiming...
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New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paper

March 13, 2012
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New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paperSome Trenton residents tried to force a recall election of the citys mayor over his hiring practicesPublic buildings in the capital of the US state of New Jersey face running out of toilet paper following a row. Trentons city council has refused to approve a $42,000...
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Bearded Lady Vivian Wheeler Finds Her Son After 33 Years

March 13, 2012
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Marc Hartzman Contributor Every adopted child wonders who his biological mother is. Movie star? Rock star? Maybe a big-shot CEO? For Richard Lorenc, she turned out to be the last thing he ever imagined: a sideshow bearded lady.The 33-year-old Kansas man had always been curious about his birth parents, but with a wife and two...
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Row over Church’s Jesus cancer-healing claims

February 28, 2012
A church in New Zealand says Jesus has cured the cancers of some of its flock. Picture: Bob Finlayson

A NEW Zealand church has erected a billboard saying “Jesus heals cancer”, after claiming six of its members had been cured. The large black and red billboard was put up by the Equippers Church in the suburb of Tamatea, in Napier, and has six white lines on it representing each of those who have...
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