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Reuters – An Aboriginal elder who claimed to have seen the location of a missing child in a dream has led Australian police to a body — but it was not the corpse of a child but of an adult woman.
Read More: Aboriginal elder leads police to body — but wrong one
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Reuters – Dirty Harry the saltwater crocodile has picked, or should that be bitten, Australia’s Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard to win Saturday’s cliffhanger general election.
Read More: Harry the croc picks Labor in Australia snap poll
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Reuters – A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him. Authorities in the southern city of Wuerzburg said on Wednesday the 19-year-old sent emails to police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank raid in the town of Roettingen a week ago.
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Reuters – A huge quantity of olive stones on an ancient shipwreck more than 2,000 years old has provided valuable insight into the diet of sailors in the ancient world, researchers in Cyprus said Thursday.
Read More: Top food was olives in time of the ancient mariner
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Reuters – Britain’s air traffic controllers put pilots on alert this week after a vulture which can soar as high as 30,000 feet escaped from her handlers during a display.
Read More: Pilots on alert for high-flying vulture
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Reuters – A new McDonald’s ad featuring Gallic champion Asterix enjoying a burger and fries has sparked outrage among French comic purists who see it as an insult to their national heritage.
Read More: Comic character's McDonald's binge sparks Gallic outcry
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Reuters – A Hungarian Roman Catholic priest has become a YouTube hit with his distinctive method of spreading the word on wheels.
Read More: Skateboarding priest becomes YouTube hit
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Reuters – More than 30 Chinese government officials have been ordered to relinquish their membership of a luxurious golf club in the wealthy eastern city of Wenzhou after a torrent of online criticism, state media reported on Friday.
Read More: Officials ordered to quit club following outcry
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Reuters – A French woman discovered her 42-year-old son had been buried in the same cemetery where she was attending her brother’s funeral, after she had tried to invite him to the ceremony, a newspaper said Friday.
Read More: Woman buries brother, discovers dead son
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Reuters – Cricket star Graeme Swann told a police officer who stopped him for drunk driving that he had had to go out to buy screwdrivers to rescue his trapped cat, a court heard Monday.
Read More: Athlete blames cat over drunk driving charge
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Reuters – France has ended restrictions barring people under 1.6 meters (5 ft 3 in) from joining the police force.
Read More: French criminals now face short arm of the law
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Reuters – A Singapore court on Wednesday extended a jail term for a Swiss man by two months to seven and maintained an earlier ruling that he receives three strokes of the cane for trespassing and spray-painting graffiti on a train.
Read More: Singapore extends jail term for Swiss graffiti man
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Reuters – Americans will gather for a group “kiss-in” in Times Square and buglers across the country will play the military funeral tune “Taps” on Saturday in the first national day of remembrance for the World War Two generation.
Read More: U.S. to commemorate WWII with "kiss-in"
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Reuters – A pair of marijuana growers in Western Canada appear to have been using bears to protect their illegal crop, but the well-fed animals proved to be a bit lax in their guard duties, police said on Wednesday.
Read More: Canadian police find bears guarding pot crop
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Reuters – Britain’s advertising watchdog said on Wednesday it had banned a police advertisement encouraging people to report neighbors whose activities raised “suspicions,” saying it could offend innocent citizens.
Read More: UK bans offensive Anti-Terrorist Hotline radio ads
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Reuters – The cash-strapped state of Rhode Island is hoping to turn residents’ patriotic fervor into a boost in tax revenue this July 4th, after passing a law that legalizes small fireworks for individual use.
Read More: Fireworks could brighten up Rhode Island budget
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Reuters – A Russian fisheries official suspected of accepting bribes tossed 10 million roubles ($322,000) from his car after a police chase and a crash on a busy Moscow highway, investigators said on Monday.
Read More: Russia police car chase ends with cash in the wind
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Reuters – Ukrainian and German police have recovered a painting by 17th century Italian artist Caravaggio stolen from a Ukrainian museum, the Interfax news agency quoted Ukraine’s interior minister as saying on Tuesday.
Read More: Ukraine recovers stolen Caravaggio work: report
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Reuters – Britain’s financial regulator has fined and banned a former broker for manipulating oil prices by buying more than 7 million barrels while on a drinking binge.
Read More: Oil broker banned for drunk trading binge
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Reuters – An alligator was found roaming the streets of a small German town in the middle of the night, authorities said on Friday.
Read More: Alligator takes late-night stroll through town
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