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Today's Odd News News: Peruvian wedding crashed by groom's ex Space alien search costs AZ school worker his job Police: Woman torched man's porch after breakup Police: Ohio man used rifle, ax on park gate Police say dresser saved woman, kids from bullet Cost of school formals soaring as teenagers glam-up Goncourt winner Littell wins Bad Sex Award Rome taxis seek to wipe out tourist scams Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory Irish use strike day to shop across border Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower London commuters "psyche up" for the underground I get no kick from champagne, Serb leader tells court Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair Ohio charity workers find marijuana in donated jug Some kids still swallowing soda can safety tabs Jesus Christ dumped from jury pool for disruption Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory New EU president wins fans in Japan -- as a poet Snap-happy Vienna orangutan opens Facebook gallery Peruvian wedding crashed by groom's ex Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:05 pm PST AP - Edwin Ortiz was just about to utter "I do," but the mother of his two children and her relatives had a different message: "Oh, no you don't." One moment, the 27-year-old Peruvian was sitting happily in a large wedding hall with 17 other couples, declaring his love for his wife-to-be to TV cameramen in the southern town of Miraflores. Full Story Top Space alien search costs AZ school worker his job Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:05 pm PST AP - A former Arizona school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million. Full Story Top Police: Woman torched man's porch after breakup Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:05 pm PST AP - Detroit authorities said a 29-year-old woman who was upset because her boyfriend broke up with her has been arrested after she lit his porch on fire. Fire Department investigators said neighbors saw the woman pour gas on the concrete porch and light it on fire about 3 a.m. Wednesday. Full Story Top Police: Ohio man used rifle, ax on park gate Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:05 pm PST AP - Police in southwest Ohio said a man was so angry that a park revoked his privileges that he destroyed the park gate with an assault rifle and an ax. Police said 23-year-old Michael Rosenbaum, of Cincinnati, was arrested Tuesday on charges of vandalism and possession of criminal tools. Full Story Top Police say dresser saved woman, kids from bullet Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:05 pm PST AP - Police said a dresser positioned near a window kept a bullet from hitting a woman and her two young children as they slept at a southwestern Pennsylvania housing project. Uniontown police said Tina Schoch was sleeping with her 2-year-old and infant sons when a bullet pierced her window late Saturday at the Pershing Court complex. Full Story Top Cost of school formals soaring as teenagers glam-up Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:01 am PST Reuters - Parents used to save for their children's weddings but now there's another major rite of passage to fund before they even leave home -- the school formal or prom, a booming industry which seems recession-proof. Full Story Top Goncourt winner Littell wins Bad Sex Award Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:44 pm PST Reuters - Jonathan Littell, who won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for "The Kindly Ones," has picked up another prize for the same work -- the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Full Story Top Rome taxis seek to wipe out tourist scams Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:45 pm PST Reuters - Rome's largest taxi cooperative is trying to improve the bad name of the city's cabbies, notorious among tourists to one of the world's best loved cities. Full Story Top Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:24 am PST Reuters - Bulgarian villagers have named their home-made rakia brandy "Borisovka," playing on the name of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to thank him for stopping parliament from raising taxes on alcohol. Full Story Top Irish use strike day to shop across border Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:57 am PST Reuters - Irish workers caused traffic jams on Tuesday as hundreds made use of a one-day public sector strike to do some Christmas shopping in the cheaper stores across the border in Northern Ireland. Full Story Top Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:28 am PST Reuters - An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday. Full Story Top London commuters "psyche up" for the underground Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:07 am PST Reuters - London's underground train system suffers from so much overcrowding that passengers have to "psyche" themselves up to cope with the stress of using it, according to a report on Tuesday. Full Story Top I get no kick from champagne, Serb leader tells court Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:14 am PST Reuters - Serbian President Boris Tadic admitted in a district court Tuesday that he had broken a law against drinking alcohol in a sports stadium -- but said he did not even like champagne. Full Story Top Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:11 am PST Reuters - In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate. Full Story Top Ohio charity workers find marijuana in donated jug Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:05 pm PST AP - Police said whoever donated a water jug to a charity in southeast Ohio probably didn't mean to be so generous. The jug contained about $1,500 worth of marijuana. Police said workers at a local Goodwill Industries site recently found four bags of marijuana when they looked inside a water jug left outside by an anonymous donor. Full Story Top Some kids still swallowing soda can safety tabs Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:12 pm PST Reuters - Beverage can tops are still finding their way into the stomachs of some children, especially teens, despite being redesigned in the 1970s to keep people from swallowing them, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Full Story Top Jesus Christ dumped from jury pool for disruption Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:05 pm PST AP - Court officials say a Birmingham woman who changed her name to Jesus Christ didn't live up to it when she reported for jury duty this week. The woman, previously named Dorothy Lola Killingworth, was sent to Judge Clyde Jones's courtroom for a criminal case Monday. Full Story Top Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:25 am PST Reuters - Bulgarian villagers have named their home-made rakia brandy "Borisovka," playing on the name of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to thank him for stopping parliament from raising taxes on alcohol. Full Story Top New EU president wins fans in Japan -- as a poet Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:12 am PST Reuters - Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan -- as a poet rather than a politician. Full Story Top Snap-happy Vienna orangutan opens Facebook gallery Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:45 pm PST Reuters - A 33-year-old furry photographer is winning fans on social networking website Facebook for pictures of her daily life as an orangutan in a Vienna zoo. Full Story Top

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