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Reuters – The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel’s Army Radio reported Wednesday.
Read More: Army nixes raid after Facebook leak?
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Reuters – Performers in London’s West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors’ union Equity.
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Reuters – China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation’s youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country’s top sports university said Thursday.
Read More: Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit
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Reuters – The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women’s hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.
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Reuters – Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men’s underwear made with bananas.
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Reuters – About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country’s Ural mountains, footage published Saturday by websites showed.
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Reuters – Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer’s pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo.
Read More: Panda found eating like a pig
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Reuters – “O Canada,” the country’s national anthem, has included the line, “True patriot love in all thy sons’ command,” for nearly 100 years.
Read More: Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem
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Reuters – A U.S. Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film “The Hurt Locker” five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.
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Reuters – An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult’s supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
Read More: Child's play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry
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Reuters – U.S. marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Tuesday.
Read More: Marriages last longer than living together?
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Reuters – A German robber held up the same bank in Hamburg twice within 24 hours just a week after being released from jail — for the same crime.
Read More: Man caught robbing same bank twice in 24 hours
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Reuters – A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.
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Reuters – A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.
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Reuters – A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari’s motorcade drive by.
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Reuters – The leader of Germany’s 25 million Protestants was stopped for running a red light while driving under the influence of alcohol, the Hanover state prosecutors office said on Tuesday.
Read More: Protestant leader regrets driving drunk
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Reuters – A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt.
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Reuters – Ten golden-colored camels adorned with sparkling ornaments line up for the finale of a beauty contest in one of the UAE’s northern emirates, awaiting the selection of two proud winners.
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Reuters – Violence, drunkenness and all manner of debauchery featured on a six-month voyage on a migrant ship bound for Australia 170 years ago, a newly discovered diary reveals.
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Reuters – The head of Germany’s 25 million Protestants resigned on Wednesday after police stopped her for driving while under the influence of alcohol just four months after becoming the third woman to head a major Christian Church.
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