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Life-sized toy tiger sparked major police operation

May 23, 2011
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Police in Britain are investigating whether a life-sized toy tiger which sparked a major operation was dumped in a field as a hoax. The large white tiger was spotted in open land in Southampton, south England, on Saturday, and prompted a huge scale cat hunt. Several members of the public reported what they believed...
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Naked man escapes from brothel

May 4, 2011
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A naked man has been spotted running across a rooftop in north-east China after police raided an illegal brothel. A high school student noticed the bizarre sight when he was visiting a friend nearby and began taking photos on his mobile phone. “I was worried his private parts would be burned by sliding down...
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A 75-year-old woman arrested for single-handedly cutting off the Internet in Georgia and Armenia

April 9, 2011
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A 75-year-old woman arrested for single-handedly cutting off the Internet in Georgia and Armenia has tearfully insisted she was innocent and said she had never heard of the web. In a case that has attracted worldwide interest, pensioner Hayastan Shakarian is accused of forcing thousands of people in both countries offline for hours after...
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Cameras Catch USC Students Having Sex on the Roof

March 30, 2011
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Brian Moylan — Just when we start to forget our stereotype of college kids as racistpartiers who will have sex anywhere, they go and have sex on the roof of a public building at USC and get caught on camera. Supposedly these two were getting it on while there were hundreds of people in the quad below...
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Meltdown at Google Earth: New 3D function goes awry as bridges flop like Salvador Dali paintings

March 24, 2011
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By DANIEL BATES   Warped and mangled beyond recognition, they look like a computerised version of a Salvador Dali painting. But these pictures are not the work of a Surrealist – they are what happened when Google tried to tinker with its images of Earth. Technicians have added elevation to the Google Earth tool but...
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Potty-mouthed preschoolers shock pollie

March 24, 2011
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NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell, his wife Rosemary O’Farrell and the Liberal Candidate for Strathfield Charles Casuscelli read a book to children at a childcare centre / AAP   Potty-mouthed preschoolers In New South Wales, Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell learned a lesson about sharing the media spotlight with young ones while visiting a childcare...
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Dude! Where’s my dragon?

March 22, 2011
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Indonesian zoo reveals three of its Komodo dragons are missing The zoo has more than 50 of the giant lizards. Picture:Getty Images THREE young Komodo dragons have gone missing from a zoo in Indonesia, a spokesman said today, warning that the lost lizards were dangerous and fast on their feet. The missing reptiles, which...
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Snake dies of silicone poisoning after biting Israeli model’s fake breast

March 22, 2011
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  A SNAKE who bit Israeli model and actress Orit Fox in the chest died after being poisoned by an unusual venom – the silicone in the buxom blonde’s surgically enhanced breasts. Spanish TV channel Telecinco’s footage of Fox’s encounter was racking up YouTube hits Monday, with some users lamenting, “R.I.P. snake,” and the...
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Russian bomb squad defuses sex toy

March 15, 2011
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ANTI-TERRORIST bomb squad experts have been called to a post office in Russia to make safe a package from which a strange ticking sound was coming, local police say. They found a vibrator. The incident took place yesterday at Petrozavodsk in the northwest republic of Karelia and followed a call from a postal worker...
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Nasa finally launches $424million Glory observation satellite… but it fails to reach orbit

March 6, 2011
Nasa finally launches $424million Glory observation satellite… but it fails to reach orbit

A rocket carrying the Glory Earth-observing satellite launched yesterday but failed to place the satellite into orbit, sending both plummeting into the Pacific. Nasa said a protective covering on the Taurus XL rocket did not separate as planned three minutes after launch at 2.09am local time (10.09 GMT). With the covering intact, the rocket...
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