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A pensioner has been snapped driving her car while peeping through a tiny hole in her snow-covered windscreen. Devon and Cornwall Police released the picture as a warning to other motorists, reports Sky News.The force is asking drivers to use common sense after a member of the public photographed the "extreme example" in Tiverton, Devon.The elderly woman, who is not being identified by the force,

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A Simpsons fan is to attempt a world record by watching all 451 episodes of the television show back to back. It would take Glyn Stott, 34, from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, six days without sleep, reports the Daily Telegraph.He said: "I'm a huge fan of the show and I've seen every episode but watching them continuously for almost a week will be a feat of endurance."The judges have to make sure

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A hotel chain is employing human bed warmers to help guests get a good night's sleep. The walking electric blankets are dressed in special all-in-one sleeper suits and are sent to warm the beds of guests staying at the Holiday Inn before they get under the covers.Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall said the idea was "like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed".The five minute free bed

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WARSAW – Poland's tax office has levied a fine of 2.3 million zlotys ($820,000) on an unemployed woman for failing to pay tax on income worth at least 13.7 million zlotys she said she had earned as a prostitute.The woman told the tax office in the southern city of Katowice that she had very "generous" customers, the website gazeta.pl, which is linked to leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza,

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A 92-year-old blind golfer has hit a hole-in-one in Florida. Leo Fiyalko was playing a 110-yard, par-3 hole in Clearwater, reports the St Petersburg Times."It was my first hole-in-one, and I never saw it," he said. "I was just trying to put the ball on the green."Mr Fiyalko once played to a seven handicap but he began suffering macular degeneration 10 years ago.He is now legally blind and needs

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Authorities in Slovenia are investigating after a piece of human tongue was served up in a hospital canteen.A doctor at the town hospital in Izola in southern Slovenia complained about the strange looking piece of meat in his meal after he ordered a chicken risotto in the hospital canteen. The doctor insisted it was not chicken, and after a row with staff the piece of meat was sent for tests -

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Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@", claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said on Thursday.The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words."The whole world uses it to write e-mail,

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US robber has been dubbed the Duct Tape Bandit after trying to raid an off licence with his head wrapped in sticky tape.He came unstuck when the owner showed him some tape of his own, which was wrapped around a wooden bat, reports Sky News.Bill Steele, owner of the store in Huntington, West Virginia, said: "Duct tape? It's just unbelievable, people don't think this really happened."He probably

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An elite kindergarten in China says it will take only 'round-headed' students as they make the cleverest pupils.Li Junjie Educational Kindergarten, in Zhengzhou city, checks the shape of would-be pupils' heads as part of admission tests.Owner Li Junjie insisted: "A round head indicates cleverness; a student with a flat head can never be outstanding no matter how hard he works."The school charges

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Police chiefs in Bangkok have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules - an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband.The armband is large, bright pink and has a Hello Kitty motif with two hearts embroidered on it.From today, officers who are late, park in the wrong place or commit other minor transgressions will have to wear it for several days, reports the BBC.The armband is

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Chinese man has built a house out of two cement pipes.Xin Yucai, 50, of Shenyang city, even turned down the chance to move into his daughter's apartment he enjoyed living in his unusual home so much."My father likes to do things differently," she explained."He bought two cement pipes from a construction company and turned them into a real house, with windows, door, and even a chimney."The

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Iranian authorities have recently arrested more than a dozen squirrels for espionage."In recent weeks, intelligence operatives have arrested 14 squirrels within Iran's borders," state-sponsored news agency IRNA reported. "The squirrels were carrying spy gear of foreign agencies, and were stopped before they could act, thanks to the alertness of our intelligence services."Iran claims the rodents

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LOS ANGELES -- Pigeons living in tinsel town are going on the pill.Hollywood residents believe it's a humane way to reduce the pigeon population and the messes the birds make.Community leaders plan to announce the pilot program Monday at a news conference. Laura Dodson, president of the Argyle Civic Association, said the "poop problem" has become unmanageable and this could be the answer.Over the

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Property hunters in Worcestershire are being given a "rare opportunity" to live in a cave.Rock Cottage, which is hewn out of a sandstone cliff, near Wolverley, was last occupied in the late 1940s.It has no electricity or water supply but boasts a front door, windows and fireplaces, as well as a pantry, sitting room and a bedroom.Given a guide price of £25,000, it comes complete with three

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Stressed out Spaniards have been relieving tension by using sledgehammers and pickaxes to destroy a Madrid hotel.For two hours, 30 members of the public were allowed to run wild on an entire floor of the hotel.They were encouraged to smash windows, pulverise baths, tear down curtains and raze the reception area.The amateur demolition team was picked from more than 200 applicants by a panel of

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Residents in north London believe they have found the shortest yellow lines in the country. The 18-inch single yellow line in Highbury Crescent in Highbury is just long enough to fit one wheel, reports the BBC."I was amazed to see the yellow line," said Elly Lishman, 36, who lives nearby. "It must be the smallest yellow line in the UK."Islington Council said no ticket has ever been issued on the

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Austrian officials fed up with motorists stopping to urinate by the roadside have put up fake snake warnings to scare them into using toilets.Franz Perder, manager of a motorway restaurant in Guntramsdorf where some of the signs have been placed, said: "The idea is that people stop to relieve themselves, see the warning about snakes and get back in the car instead of going to the bushes to take a

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Five-legged bull has become a star attraction at a Chinese zoo.The bull looks normal except for an extra leg growing on its back, reports Guangzhou Daily."The bull is just like its peers in respect to its habits," says its keeper at Zhongshan zoo in Guangzhou city.The bull was imported from a farm at the beginning of this year and became an instant success at the zoo."He is very gentle, and kids

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Cheese lovers can now watch cheddar mature 24 hours a day on the internet.West country farmers set up the Cheddarvision website featuring a 25 kg block of cheddar, reports ITN.Farmer Tom Calver - "How many other cheeses do you know of on the internet that have their own webcam and a live feed to the internet? I don't think many."The highlight of the day on www.cheddarvision.tv is at around 10am

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Lonely farmers in North Wales are to be pictured on milk cartons to help them find love.Dairy co-operative Calon Wen is behind the 'Fancy a Farmer?' campaign, reports the Daily Post.Stickers on Calon Wen's organic milk will feature three men and two women looking for a date.Among them is 30-year-old Iwan Jones, of Groes Bach, Groes, near Denbigh, who dreamt up the idea.He said: "It's a bit of a

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Pet project of Adolf Hitler, which few were aware of, appears to have been a superheavy tank that would have dwarfed even the King Tiger. Dubbed the Mouse, this behemoth of doubtful military value was to weigh 207 tons, combat loaded. Two were actually built, although they were never equipped with their armament.This German drawing shows a sectionalized elevation of the Mouse hull. The following

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Paul Bates sent a Christmas card to a long-lost pal in this envelope with NO street name, NO town, NO postcode — yet it arrived!Card was delivered with this sketch on the envelope instead of an addressSteel worker, 48, had forgotten the name of the town workmate Peter O’Leary moved to from Neath, South Wales, three years ago.But he recalled Peter had pointed it out on a map. So he put a dot on a

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Car stunt in China - gone bad.

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Gift shop is in trouble for selling x-rated Christmas decorations.Several new holiday decorations considered X-rated are being sold in Florida at a store popular with young children. Decorations depict characters such as a reindeer and a snowman couple in a variety of sexual poses.Six controversial ornaments, which can be purchased for $9 at Spencer's stores in Florida, include an X-rated snowman

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1. I'm too old (or, too young) to find work. 2. I don't have enough money.3. I don't speak enough English/Spanish/Russian/Navajo for them to hire me. 4. I fail at everything I try. Why bother? 5. I don't have a car/a phone/a fax/a pager/a computer/an alarm clock. 6. I'm too shy. 7. I don't know where to start. 8. I don't have a degree (or, the proper education). 9. It's

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According to hit internet radio station Last.fm, that has 15 million users around the world, we have oportunity to see what people around the world listen.And it is pretty amazing.Figures show the most popular track played in war-torn Iraq last week was Johnny Cash’s Ring Of Fire.Nirvana’s hit Come As You Are came out tops in Afghanistan.Over in troubled Lebanon, meanwhile, the No1 choice was

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Kid dressed as red Power Ranger scares robbers with his sword.

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Indians living on the edge of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are to start selling recordings of their traditional chants as mobile phone ringtones.Xavante songs like "the hunt song" and "the healing dance" will soon be available to people in China and Europe.Brazilian mobile users can already download the tones for about 70p each.Some 100 Xavante Indians in the remote Sao Pedro village in Mato Grosso

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Racing car commissioned by Adolf Hitler is expected to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction.1939 Auto Union D-Type, thought to be one of only two in existence, was created by Ferdinand Porsche after a personal request from Hitler.German dictator wanted the car as a propaganda tool to show off the technological superiority of the Third Reich.Car, one of the fastest of its time, has

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Do you know what is the price of the most expensive potato in the world? Or would you take a ride in most expensive car in a world? If you couldn’t get that opportunity, you can see here the list of most expensive things in the world.Most expensive woman in the world is - Jennifer LopezWhy? Her gorgeous body is insured at one of New York’s insurance companies for a sum of 1 billion euros.Most

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New researche suggests that it is not good to sit at your desk straight up.Sitting up straight at your desk can do your back more damage.Tests at Woodend Hospital, in Aberdeen, were carried out on 22 healthy people who have never suffered from back problems.They were asked to sit in three positions: hunched over a desk or video console; perfectly upright at 90 degrees; and reclining back at 135

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Germans and Austrians are uniting against a kindly old man who brings joy to children all over the world. Their call: Ban Santa.Campaigners in both countries claim Father Christmas is an invention of the Coca-Cola company in the United States and should be ditched. In Austria, "Pro Christkind" - it means "For Christ Child" - want images of the baby Jesus and St Nicholas to replace the

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This new Aquapet toy really looks like...Well it doesn't look like a children's toy.

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Low security and two big victim's cousins, gives this.

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Partially-sighted learner driver says he's determined to pass his test - despite concern from local residents.Peter Davies, from Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, has just 50% effective vision in one eye and 45% in the other.25-year-old recently mounted a kerb and crashed into a fence and admits his parking leaves a lot to be desired.Pam Every, a local town councillor and chairwoman of the Isgraig

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Two self-styled Jedi Knights are stepping up an intergalactic campaign for formal recognition.Umada and Yunyun, also known as John Wilkinson and Charlotte Law, want the UN to acknowledge "The Force" is worthy of being called a religion.Couple claim to be part of the UK's fourth largest religious group, after 400,000 people recorded their faith as "Jedi" in the 2001 Census.They say that as a

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Doolally! Filmi! Bevakoof! This is Hinglish, English with Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi.And now novelist and teacher Baljinder Mahal has provided readers with a guide to this lively hybrid language - a new dictionary entitled "The Queen's Hinglish: How To Speak Pukka."For British Asian families, it is the perfect way to enliven English. On the Indian sub-continent it is a fast-developing lingua

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New York firm is making waves in the beauty world with its new range of pubic hair dyes.Betty Beauty, which bills its products as 'colour for the hair down there', has been featured on television and in magazines such as Vogue.Founder Nancy Jarecki came up with the idea when she was living in Rome three years ago, reports Advertising Age.She noticed as women left the salon, the colourist would

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Scientist from Britain revealed - perfect face for comedy.Scientists have blended the features of 20 top comics to come up with the perfect face for comedy.They concluded a round face, small forehead and wide nose, with soft feminine features, is most likely to make us laugh.Stirling UniversityAnd the researchers, from Stirling University, reckon Ricky Gervais has the closest fit.Gervais said he

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Thousands of people across the globe are trying to produce a world's best on Guinness World Records Day.Some 6,000 people are gathering in Paris to try and register the largest simultaneous kiss, while 2,000 Canadians are trying to form the world's longest can-can line in Toronto.In London, two pairs of women will attempt a new record for the most 'ballet leg switches' , a synchronised swimming

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8,000-calorie burger has gone on sale in the US.Quadruple Bypass Burger has four slabs of beef weighing 2lbs, three cheese layers, four bacon rashers, lettuce and tomato.Heart Attack Grill in Tempe, Arizona, has wheelchairs to carry customers out of the restaurant.Customers can also order the smaller Triple Bypass Burger and Flatliner fries cooked in pure lard."You have to be a real man to dine

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New collection of Christmas stamps, with Santa, causes upset in Church of England.They were expecting last year collection.But there is something funny on new stamps.Santa looks like he has stopped for a toilet break on one of this year's Christmas stamps.Collection, on sale today, shows Santa sitting on top of a chimney.New Santa stampCollection has upset the Church of England, which claims they

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One more thing that you can't carry in a plane is restricted in France. Beside liquid you can't take with you SOFT CHEESE.Such were the instructions being given to passengers leaving France Monday as new EU-wide restrictions on liquids and soft products came into effect to prevent terrorists smuggling explosives on planes.According to detailed advice given by the Aeroports de Paris managing

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Two guys walk into Moscow University, climb to 21st floor and jump.

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Unbeliavable video of magnetic man from Malaysia.Don't come close to him with metal objects.

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Hundreds of people protested in a remote village in eastern India after police arrived to arrest a three-month-old boy for robbery, police and witnesses said on Friday.Infant's name was subsequently dropped from a list of people accused of robbing bus passengers last week, according to Sunit Kumar, senior police officer in the town of Muzzafarpur in the poor and lawless state of Bihar.This is his

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How to escape from prison? Post yourself out as a large package.Prisoner wrapped himself in a large parcel and posted himself to freedom from a jail in Austria.Was it like this?Bosnian Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36, was serving a seven-year sentence for robbery in the Karlau prison, near Graz.He escaped from the workshop where he helped package and post parts for lampposts.Man packed himself up in a

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Windy Miller's naturist uncle gave viewers a flash of his willy - during an ad for porridge.Windy Miller is a character from the 1960's childrens TV programme "Camberwick Green".He has recently been recreated to star in a series of TV ads for Quaker Oats. Windy MillerOne of the adsUncle Guber, a naturist, flashed his willy in an advert for Oatso Simple, reports the Mirror.Character is always

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Size really does count, just ask Australian underwear maker AussieBum which has just launched the "Wonderjock" for men who want to look bigger.Since the launch seven days ago, AussieBum says it has sold 50,000 pairs of "Wonderjock", mostly on its Web site www.aussiebum.com and a handful of stores around the world."The design of the underwear, separates and lifts. The fabric cup protrudes

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Iran will offer cash incentives to travel agencies to encourage Western tourists to visit the country, giving a premium for Americans, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.Islamic republic's political leadership has been trying to reach out to ordinary Americans to show that a standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions is with the Bush administration - not U.S. citizens.Latest

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You don't have to make some cool cartoon drawing.Something simple as few lines, some soundand a drop of red paint can make cool stuff.Just like this cartoon. I hope you enjoyed watching this.

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Osama Bin Laden's secret caves hideout is being converted - into a £5.3 million tourist resort.Afghan authorities plan to invigorate the country's fledgling tourist industry by developing Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora mountain hideout as a visitor attraction.Dr Hassamuddin Hamrah, the man in charge, believes that the caves which once housed bin Laden and his fighters, together with the remains of

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For the last eight years, people looking for love have been writing witty Lonely Hearts ads in the London Review of Books.New book has now been published collecting some of the most entertaining adverts.These are all extracts from They Call Me Naughty Lola by David Rose, published by Profile Books.Some of the best ads ::: They call me naughty Lola. Run-of-the-mill beardy physicist (M, 46):: I

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Police were called in Bulgaria after a mass fight broke out between 23 teenage girls over a handsome male student.Girls, aged between 15 and 18, used brass knuckles, chains and beer bottles to fight over the lad whose name was not revealed.GorublyaneGirls, from the Bulgarian capital Sofia, agreed to fight it out and skipped school to meet up in a local playground in the Gorublyane district of the

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Kurt Cobain is showbusiness's top earning celebrity in afterlife - surpassing Elvis Presley.The Nirvana frontman raked in a staggering $50 million last year, putting Presley's $42 million in the shade, according to US business website Forbes.com.Forbes.com bases its dollar amounts on licensing deals for using the passed away celebrities' work or image in advertising or elsewhere.This was Cobain's

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Showman P.T. Barnum never said "There's a sucker born every minute" although he wished he had. And Civil War Admiral David Farragut probably never said "Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead", words that have inspired generations of fighting men.To make things even more complicated, it is doubtful that Paul Revere warned that "The British are coming" when he would have at the time of the American

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For those who love to go under knife, so they can be beautiful, here is something brand new. Eyelash transplant surgery.Look more closely. Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women -- and the occasional man -- convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in front of the eye itself.Using procedures pioneered by the hair loss industry for

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Dutch mayor backed the idea of sending prostitutes to accompany Dutch troops on foreign missions."The army must consider ways its soldiers can let off steam," said Annemarie Jorritsma, mayor of the town of Almere in central Netherlands and a member of the ruling VVD liberals."There was once the suggestion that a few Ladies should accompany troops on missions. I think that is something we should

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Couple of months ago, Queen was giving Nazi salute in a play. Now she is portrayed as a Cabbage Patch doll in a controversial new portrait being shown at Tate Modern. But she kept her dignity.At least the monarch was spared from New York artist George Condo's original idea - he wanted to paint her as a nude in the style of Spanish master Diego Velazquez.Long gone are the deferential days in the

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Deaf and blind man who doesn't drive has received a £60 speeding ticket.Police say a speed camera clocked Martyn Styles doing 36mph in a 30mph zone in Hull, reports the Mirror."They say they've got evidence against me. Well, let's see the picture of me with my white stick and my guide dog driving that car."Blind man with a caneDrove this, hmmmm?And was caught on this piece of hi-tech,

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Artist has created portraits of famous faces using toast and Marmite.Dermot Flynn's work will be displayed at a gallery in London alongside art created by the public using the spread.Famous faces on the toast include Simon Cowell, Baroness Thatcher, Pete Doherty, Victoria Beckham, Gordon Ramsay, Charlotte Church and James Blunt.According to the BBC, Mr Flynn chose ten celebritiies for his work

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Britain is in danger of becoming a nation fearful of its young people, according to a new study.Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), to be published next month, shows that British adults are less likely than those in other European countries to intervene to stop teenagers committing anti-social behaviour.200-page report says 65% of Germans, 52% of Spanish and 50% of

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Claudia Schiffer believes models are now too skinny to be attractive even though the German supermodel may herself be slightly underweight despite a voracious appetite and predilection for chocolate."It doesn't really look good any more," the 36-year-old was quoted as saying in an interview with Germany's Bunte magazine."Fashion looks good on thin models, but when you look at today's models you

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Major new exhibition at London's Science Museum on Friday pondered the history of video games - is the world's fastest growing entertainment industry a blessing or a curse?And while adults weighed up the pro's and con's of the console revolution, kids were let loose on 120 games from Pac-Man to PlayStation.London's Science MuseumThought-provoking exhibition offers no easy answers on the gaming

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House has been 'dropped upside down' on the roof of the Viennese Museum of Modern Art.Art project, entitled House-Attack by top local sculptor Erwin Wurm, is supposed to look as if the house has fallen out of the sky and landed on the famous museum in the centre of the Austrian capital.It actually took two cranes to put the huge sculpture into place, which is complete with a red roof, window

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Kazakhstan is fighting back against the bad publicity created by Borat by sending a real life version to the movie's London launch.Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat, a Kazakh TV journalist, initially sparked am angry reaction from the Central Asian country.But the country has now changed direction, offering a red carpet reception to Cohen to show him the real Kazakhstan.And it is sending

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Queensland farmers are looking at using banana fuel to run their tractors.State's peak horticultural body is setting up a pilot facility at a banana plantation in far north Queensland to trial a clean methane gas made from banana waste.Graeme Bush, who farms 400 acres of bananas in Tully in far north Queensland, is one of the directors of the Bush Holdings plantation, which is hosting the pilot

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Unfortunately majority of them are military ships.When you look at all these ships, and see how much money they spent on building them, especially military vessels, person can only ask himself."Is this world that crazy?"Billions of dollars for a ship.Really, that is way too much.I know billions of things that this planet really needs, and warships are not one of them.But, for those of you who

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It's the world's most expensive cigar, $440 each and it only comes in boxes of 40, but is it the best? Nobody knows because no one has smoked one.Cuban havanas from the Cohiba brand are so precious that no one has actually lit one yet. Although the blend was tested by a group of tasters before the cigar went into hand-made production, according to Norma Fernandez, the "torcedora" or cigar-roller

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Alarmed by the antics of a fictional TV reporter who portrays their country as a nation of horse urine-drinking misogynists, Kazakh authorities have invited the comedian who plays the character to come and see the truth for himself.Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh first deputy foreign minister and a powerful son-in-law of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, asked comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to visit the vast,

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Gay Police Association (GPA) has been reprimanded for an ad which implied Christians were responsible for a huge rise in violent attacks on homosexuals.Advert, placed in The Independent newspaper under the banner "in the name of the father" showed a Bible and a pool of blood.It was a one-off, used to back up the GPA's claim that the association had recorded a 74 percent increase in homophobic

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City's palm trees, one of the symbols of Los Angeles, are vanishing.Trees are dying of old age and a fungal disease, disappearing one by one from parks and streets, and city planners are replacing them with oaks, sycamores and other species that are actually native to Los Angeles and offer more shade, too.Not all palms are infected, and there is no danger of their vanishing altogether any time

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More than one in eight U.S. adults finds it hard to stay away from the Internet for several days at a time and about one in 11 tries to hide his or her online habit, according to a study released on Tuesday.Study by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California found one in 8 adults admitted they needed to spend less time online, saying this showed "problematic

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They are not real, but they influence our lives.And topping a list of "The 101 most influential people who never lived" in a book released on Tuesday is the Marlboro Man -- a macho American cowboy who emerged in the 1950s and helped boost sales of Marlboro cigarettes.Marlboro Man"The figments of our imaginations, the creatures we push out of our minds into the real world are fully capable of

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Picasso's famed "Dream" painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.Wynn had just finalised a $139 million sale to another collector of his painting, called "Le Reve" (The Dream), when he poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago.Director

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Only Pyramids of Giza are the last original wonder, now me must choose new list of seven.Among 21 locations shortlisted for the worldwide vote is Stonehenge, the only British landmark selected.5,000-year-old stones on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, will be up against sites including the Acropolis in Athens; the Statue of Liberty in New York; and the last remaining original wonder, the Pyramids of

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105-year-old Chinese man has placed lonely hearts adverts in newspapers for a new wife.Gong Duruo, who was born at Chengde, Hebei province, in 1901, wants a wife less than half his age.Gong, a doctor, said: "First, the woman better have a history of doctor practice or learning literature, since I need assistance to write a medical book.Gong Duruo"Second, the woman should be younger than 50, and

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Men's willies will be bigger and women's boobs will be more pert - by the year 3000.New research predicts some humans will be 6½ft tall, have coffee-coloured skin and live for 120 years.Predictions appear in a new report by evolution theorist Dr Oliver Curry, of the Darwin@LSE Research Centre at the London School Of Economics.He spent two months investigating the ascent and descent of man over

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If you don't know, SWAT team will tell you.Parent in Midvale, Utah, attempting to record a middle school football game from the school's roof was misidentified as a sniper, causing police to evacuate hundreds of people from the field.James Kranz wanted to shoot video of his children playing on Saturday. But an officer spotted him climbing a ladder onto the school's roof with what looked like a

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Identical twin pop singers have been arrested after they let rip with a four-letter outburst at football fans.Francine and Nicola Gleadall were at Hillsborough to perform their new single Cum On Feel The Noise in front a 29,000-strong crowd.But the 18-year-olds were booed and taunted by Barnsley supporters as they sang at half-time during the match with home team Sheffield Wednesday.Francine and

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Four Italians have constructed what they believe is the world's first full-sized chocolate igloo but they have yet to solve problem that also happens to ice igloo.It melts."It was a tough thing to do, much more difficult than building a normal snow igloo," Marco Fanti, 45, who used to race cars in desert rallies, told Reuters as he stood beside the 1.65-metre-high, dome-shaped traditional Inuit

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Pakistani man has committed suicide outside his fiancee's home after he thought he accidentally killed her while trying to persuade her to get married early, police said on Saturday.Ahmed Ashraf, was shooting a gun in the air outside his fiancee's home in the southern city of Karachi on Friday as part of his efforts to persuade her to get married two months early when a stray bullet accidently

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Japanese woman in her 50s gave birth to a child she had carried for her daughter, who was unable to conceive as she had her womb removed due to cancer, according to obstetrician, who said on Sunday.Case is likely to further stir debate in Japan about births by surrogate mothers, which both the government and a key medical association oppose.Yahiro Netsu, the head of a maternity clinic in the

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Three years ago, at the age of 17, Metok Lhazey sat in solitary confinement in a pitch dark, filthy and horribly cramped Chinese prison cell in the Tibetan capital Lhasa.This weekend, the nervous 20-year-old is dreaming about being crowned Miss Tibet in a small but controversial beauty pageant held by Tibetan refugees in northern India."My main motive is to push the Tibetan cause all over the

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He thought that he could hide from this kick.But this is latest invention in football free kicks. Ouch!!!

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Six-year-old girl who threw a message in a bottle out to sea off the coast of northeast Scotland in the hope that it might be found in Scandanavia was delighted to learn that it had been discovered on the other side of the world, in New Zealand, The Independent said on Friday.Keely Reid, who threw the plastic bottle to sea while on holiday with her grandparents in Scotland, received a letter from

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Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com.She posted a picture of the president, scrawled "Kill Bush" across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal

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And this is causing unrest among environmentalists.People in the United States are consuming more than ever - more food, more energy, more natural resources. Open spaces are shrinking and traffic in many areas is dreadful.But some experts argue that population growth only partly explains America's growing consumption. Just as important, they say, is where people live, what they drive and how far

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Hundreds of patients of a bankrupt Colorado doctor may be at risk for identity theft after his patients' records were dumped in a parking lot when he was evicted from his office Thursday afternoon.Dr. Charles Kay, who runs Orchard Family Practice in Englewood, Colo., was evicted from his office.The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department and the building management supervised the eviction while the

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North Korea's decision to test a nuclear weapon may mean no more French wines and spirits for the Dear Leader or jet skis for his beloved sons.United Nations is moving closer to imposing sanctions on North Korea for its announced nuclear test Monday that include steps to hit the Stalinist state's nuclear and missile programs as well as keeping luxury goods away from its leaders."In a country as

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Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced plans Thursday to buy natural gas generated from cow manure on California dairy farms.PG&E officials said the utility signed a deal with Microgy Inc., a subsidiary of Portsmouth, N.H.-based Environmental Power Corp., to buy enough biomethane to power an estimated 50,000 homes.Agreement represents the PG&E's first purchase of natural gas generated from cow

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Discovery of radioactive snails at a site in southeastern Spain where three U.S. hydrogen bombs fell by accident 40 years ago may trigger a new joint U.S.-Spanish clean-up operation, officials said Wednesday.Hydrogen bombs fell near the fishing village of Palomares in 1966 after a mid-air collision between a bomber and a refueling craft, in which seven of 11 crewmen died.Hundreds of tons of soil

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Actress Tara Reid, whose botched breast surgery made her a Hollywood laughingstock two years ago, underwent additional surgery to repair the damage, according to a report in Us Weekly.In an interview released on Wednesday, the "American Pie" actress told the magazine she had surgery last month to reduce the scarring on her breasts and to even out her stomach after cosmetic surgery in 2004.Reid

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Officials are trying to track down the origins of a mummified human skeleton that a Michigan woman tried to sell on eBay.St. Clair County medical examiner's office confiscated the mummified remains Tuesday from the home of Lynn Sterling.Sterling, 45, told police she got the remains from a friend who works in demolition and said he found them in a Detroit school he helped tear down nearly 30 years

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Valentyn Shtefano's pastries were known for attracting stares and giggles as well as lip-smacking murmurs. But even his fiancee was surprised when Shtefano told her he was making her wedding dress — out of flour, eggs, sugar and caramel.The dress — made of 1,500 cream puffs and weighing 20 pounds — took the 28-year-old baker two months to make, and by the end of the wedding reception, bride

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Some of Barbra Streisand's fans have some advice for the diva - shut up and sing.Streisand, 64, an ardent Democrat, has used the opportunity of her first U.S. tour in 12 years to snipe at U.S. President George W. Bush, employing a Bush impersonator to sing a duet with her while blasting the administration's policies.Not all members of her audience, who paid up to $250 (134 pounds) for a ticket,

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Coca-Cola Co. said that it will introduce a new green-tea beverage that has been proven to burn calories.Enviga will hit the market in the Northeast next month and nationwide in January. Coke said it is the product of a joint venture with Nestle and could burn 60 to 100 calories with three 12-ounce servings.The Atlanta-based company said the drink contains caffeine, calcium and a green tea

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Birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world's first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.With documentation of gay or lesbian behaviour among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, whales and dozens of other creatures, the Oslo Natural History Museum concludes human homosexuality cannot be viewed as "unnatural"."We may have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is

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According to new U.S. study only 30 minutes a day exposition to the high decibel levels of New York's subway system could result in hearing loss and wearing an iPod can increase the risk.Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health at the city's Columbia University found that exposure to the noise levels of the New York transit system can exceed recommended guidelines of the World Health

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"Quiet please. Worms at work."Always on the cutting edge of all things environmental, California is encouraging public and private-sector employees to bring worms to work so that the creatures can chew up apple cores, sandwich scraps and other lunch leftovers and produce compost.The employees are then invited to take the stuff home and use the all-natural fertilizer in their gardens and on their

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