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The first two Yubari melons of the season were auctioned Friday in northern Japan and only cost $5,200. Expensive you say, maybe but it's a bargain if you consider last year's winning bid - a record 2.5 million yen, or about $26,000. In 2007 they sold for about $20,000. |
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FRIBOURG, Switzerland - Swiss police said they are investigating a 7 year-old girl's discovery of a condom in her McDonald's Happy Meal. |
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ZURICH, Switzerland - Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software. |
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Mice may be responsible for a blaze that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, officials say. |
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SAN ANTONIO - A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road,, like all women drivers." |
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BEIJING - A college student in southern China just needed a hug, but he probably shouldn't have picked a panda for his warm and fuzzy moment.
Instead of a hug, the panda bit the student after he broke into the animal's zoo enclosure. |
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Pub-goers in Aberdeen are facing a drugs test before entering bars.
WTF Freedom? |
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Dead goldfish gets voter registration material 'Princess Nudelman' won't cast a ballot, but Ill. mailing stirs controversy.
WTF America? |
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Car thief caught on camera with a clear view of his neck which had his surname and date of birth tattooed on it.
What a dumbass! |
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New statistics have revealed that there are almost 100,000 more females than males in Australia.
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Nils Olav, a penguin, was knighted in London!
The knighthood ceremony began Friday morning with speeches and a fanfare before the penguin arrived |
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Police were investigating the disappearance of a venomous snake from an aquarium in Galveston, Texas, and said they believe the reptile has been stolen. |
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Police were investigating the disappearance of a venomous snake from an aquarium in Galveston, Texas, and said they believe the reptile has been stolen. |
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DES MOINES, Iowa - Nude dancing remains an art in Iowa.
A judge Friday ruled in favor of a nude dancing club owner charged with violating Iowa's indecent exposure law. |
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Difficult pin placements and faster, drier greens flustered the field and only five golfers managed to shoot below par, including Fred Funk, whose 1-under 69 gave him the lead at the halfway point of the U.S. Senior Open.
Oh Yeah and a big fucking bear. |
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it. |
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Elliot Tuleja was passed out when the men poured cologne on the man's groin and set him on fire on Jan. 18. Tuleja had second-degree burns on his nuts. |
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A New York man claimed in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that he found a knife with a 7-inch blade baked into the bread of his foot-long "Cold Cut Trio" Subway sandwich. |
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A customs officer hid a package of the banned substance in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase in order to test airport security. |
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A car dealership in the United States is offering a free handgun with every vehicle sold.
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Well at least according to some press reports
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JK Rowling’s tales of the boy wizard, below, and his head teacher Dumbledore will be studied alongside Shakespeare and Dickens
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