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Diplomats arrested for cigarette smugglingSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.… more
Ageing Santa gets $100,000 facelift for ChristmasWELLINGTON (Reuters) - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.… more
Gang accused of killing to sell human fatLIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.… more |
New fossils reveal a world full of crocodilesWASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world… moreLost man drives nine hours to get newspaperCANBERRA (Reuters) - An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after ge… moreU.S. election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet momentsNEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama we… moreTrapped thief drops trousers in bungled burglaryLISBON (Reuters) - He wiggled, jiggled and even dropped his trousers, but a thief trying to break into a supermarket in … moreJohnny Depp named People's "sexiest man alive"NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" on Wedn… moreCannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab houseMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had but… moreLawmaker apologizes for insulting rival on TwitterOTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian member of Parliament learned the hard way on Tuesday that insulting a rival legislator by … more |
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