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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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TV show that interviews death row prisoners a hit in China

March 4, 2012
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It was meant to deter potential criminals but China’s latest TV show that interviews prisoners on death row has become a prime time hit. Interviews Before Execution, a show that airs every Saturday night in China, has millions of people gathering around their televisions to watch those condemned to die opening up their hearts....
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Pervert who sold semen-soiled yoghurt samples gets his comeuppance

March 3, 2012
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From correspondents in New Mexico From: NewsCore March 02, 2012 10:08PM A bowl of Greek yoghurt yesterday. A NEW Mexico grocery store worker who misled shoppers into tasting a yogurt sample tainted with his semen will spend the next two years in prison. Anthony Garcia, 32, tricked four women into sampling the contaminated food in January...
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That is one ugly computer – but it’s only $35

March 3, 2012
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BY CLAIRE CONNELLY, TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Sure – the credit card sized computer is ugly but it’s $35. Picture: Raspberry Pi WELL that is one ugly computer – but it’s $35 and the size of a credit card so what are you complaining about? US technology company Raspberry Pi’s creation lets users program their own computer...
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Speech-jamming gun silences people mid-sentence

March 3, 2012
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JAPANESE researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable “SpeechJammer” gun that can silence people more than 30m away. The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing...
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Adulterer may be hanged instead of stoned

March 2, 2012
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STAFF REPORTER, The West Australian December 27, 2011, 9:58 am Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, left, speaks with media in a news briefing as she meets with her son, Sajjad, January 1, 2011. Photo: AAP A woman due to be stoned to death for adultery could be hanged instead. The Daily Mail reports that Iranian...
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Baby cut from pregnant mum: woman gets life

March 2, 2012
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BUB CUT FROM PREGNANT MUM: WOMAN GETS LIFE Brett Barrouquere, AAP A US woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a pregnant acquaintance and cutting her baby boy alive from her womb. Kathy Coy agreed to the sentence in a deal last month in which she avoided a possible...
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Row over Church’s Jesus cancer-healing claims

February 28, 2012
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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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