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Today's Odd News News:
TV host announces wrong winner for Top Model
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:47 am PDT
Reuters - Producers of Australia's Next Top Model have been left red faced after supermodel host Sarah Murdoch announced the wrong winner in what newspapers said was the country's most awkward TV moment. Full Story
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Police investigate family on polygamy TV show
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:48 am PDT
Reuters - The new reality TV show "Sister Wives," featuring a real-life advertising salesman and four women he calls his spouses, has sparked a criminal bigamy investigation by police in Utah, officials said. Full Story
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Man beats odds to win lottery twice
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:48 am PDT
Reuters - For a Missouri man, luck comes in pairs. Full Story
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Gym culture not working out for the French
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:46 am PDT
Reuters - The French may love to look good but few are willing to work up a sweat over it. Full Story
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Three jailed for tourist scams
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:46 am PDT
Reuters - Three people have been jailed for carrying out a scam to steal from more than 100 Japanese tourists in central London, police said on Tuesday. Full Story
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Atheists, Jews top religious knowledge survey
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:45 am PDT
Reuters - They may not believe in God or gods but they know a thing or two about them. Full Story
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U.S. apologizes for flying Philippine flag upside down
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:57 am PDT
Reuters - The United States government apologized for displaying the Philippine flag upside down at an event in New York attended by President Barack Obama on Friday, calling it an "honest mistake." Full Story
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Millionaire Segway owner dies in cliff fall
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:48 am PDT
Reuters - The British millionaire businessman who owns the firm Segway has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff with one of the two-wheeled electric scooters near his body, police said on Monday. Full Story
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Love triangle skydive murder trial begins
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:17 am PDT
Reuters - A Belgian woman went on trial on Friday charged with the murder of a fellow skydiver and love rival who plunged to her death after her parachute was sabotaged. Full Story
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Belgium experiments with mystical "full moon" beer
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:25 am PDT
Reuters - Full moons are often associated with tides, insanity and creatures like werewolves, but it turns out they're also good for brewing beer. Full Story
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Obama backs Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity'
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:41 pm PDT
AFP - US President Barack Obama praised a comedian Wednesday for organizing a "Rally to Restore Sanity," saying it may help instill more "courtesy" in American political life. Full Story
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Police: Judge hands out condoms hidden in acorns
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:08 pm PDT
AP - Police said a district judge from Intercourse, Pa., hid condoms inside acorns and handed them out to women in the state Capitol complex last week. A summary charge of disorderly conduct was filed Tuesday against Isaac H. Stoltzfus, who presides over low-level cases as a district judge in Lancaster County. Full Story
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Australia TV host announces wrong winner for Top Model
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:28 am PDT
Reuters - Producers of Australia's Next Top Model have been left red faced after supermodel host Sarah Murdoch announced the wrong winner in what newspapers said was the country's most awkward TV moment. Full Story
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Man to spend Christmas in jail for next 5 years
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:08 pm PDT
AP - A judge running for the state Supreme Court has given a man accused of assaulting a woman a sentence with an unusual twist. District Court Judge Nels Swandal gave Daniel Martz a 10-year suspended sentence on Monday for a May 2009 attack in which Martz allegedly choked and hit a woman, and then tried to have her change her story. Full Story
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Denver firefighters battle flames, fleeing bedbugs
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:08 pm PDT
AP - Denver firefighters ran into more than the normal hazards at a house fire. Crews responding to the blaze Wednesday also had to battle bedbugs, the bloodsucking insects quickly becoming the scourge of households and businesses across the country. Full Story
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Langurs ensure no monkey business at Delhi Games
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:45 am PDT
Reuters - While 100,000 security guards have been deployed to counter potential threats from militants, authorities here have turned to rented langurs to thwart any monkey threat to the Commonwealth Games starting on Sunday. Full Story
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Troubled W. Pa. city lays off 9, plus police dog
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:08 pm PDT
AP - The financial situation is so bad in one western Pennsylvania city that even its police dog has been laid off. Jeannette City Council on Tuesday voted to lay off nine workers of the city's 47 workers effective Oct. 5. They include three of the city's 12 police, including Officer Justin Scalzo who handles the city's drug-sniffing dog, Wando. Full Story
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Musician performs in eight countries in 24 hours
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:42 am PDT
Reuters - A German musician who wanted to break a world record and promote his new CD gave concerts in eight countries this weekend -- all in 24 hours. Full Story
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Is Cattelan giving business the finger in Milan?
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:28 am PDT
Reuters - A marble sculpture of a cut-off hand with the middle finger stuck up has gone on display in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, provoking a lively debate in Italy's financial capital. Full Story
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Oh look: there's a mouse in my bread
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:12 pm PDT
AP - It was hard to explain, that dead mouse baked into a loaf of bread. British officials have released the photo which proved that Stephen Forse wasn't kidding when he claimed to find the wee creature while making sandwiches for his children. Full Story
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