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Today's Odd News News: Hitler's last bodyguard gives up on fan mail Body of TV quizmaster snatched from grave Woman survives fall from 23rd floor Social networking leads to sex faster? SPLATNAV! UK pensioners drive into German church Purported JFK ambulance sold for $120,000 at auction Popularity of vampires spawns subculture, scholar says Huge parking fines inspired parking watch app "Rubbish hotel" booked up for tourism fair Cat in Court, Giant Crayfish Found, Tasmanian Devil Die-Off: Buzz Week in Review Mystery WWII photos launch German war crimes probe Ill. salesman fired for Packers tie gets new job University awards first Beatles degree Pot-firing catapult found at Arizona-Mexico border Castration seen as climate change aid for reindeer Missing pedigreed cat turns up — neutered Ain't it grand: Piano in bay has Miami Beach abuzz Corruption song proves a hit for Indonesian ex-con 5-foot Monitor lizard wanders Calif. neighborhood BBC offers an ending to Dickens' unfinished novel Hitler's last bodyguard gives up on fan mail Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:11 am PST Reuters - More than 65 years after World War Two, Adolf Hitler's last surviving bodyguard says that he can no longer respond to the continuous deluge of fan mail he receives from around the world, because of his advanced age. Full Story Top Body of TV quizmaster snatched from grave Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:10 am PST Reuters - The body of Mike Bongiorno, who was Italy's top quiz show host for more than 50 years and a close friend of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was stolen from his grave, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story Top Woman survives fall from 23rd floor Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:31 am PST Reuters - An Argentine woman survived after jumping from the 23rd floor of a downtown Buenos Aires hotel on Monday, landing on a taxi moments after the driver dashed to safety, the state news agency reported. Full Story Top Social networking leads to sex faster? Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:31 am PST Reuters - Nearly four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social networking tools cause new couples to jump into bed faster, a survey released on Monday showed. Full Story Top SPLATNAV! UK pensioners drive into German church Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:20 am PST Reuters - Two British pensioners landed in hospital in southern Germany after their car's global positioning system directed them to drive into a church. Full Story Top Purported JFK ambulance sold for $120,000 at auction Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:48 am PST Reuters - A car collector who wanted a "piece of history" paid $120,000 at an auction in Arizona for a 1963 ambulance that purportedly carried the body of President John F. Kennedy after he was assassinated, auction officials said. Full Story Top Popularity of vampires spawns subculture, scholar says Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:48 am PST Reuters - They work as doctors and lawyers by day but lurk as vampires by night. While they may not wish to suck your blood, there are plenty of willing victims on tap, according to a top U.S. scholar on a subculture that emulates the undead. Full Story Top Huge parking fines inspired parking watch app Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:06 am PST Reuters - Massive parking fines inspired one Australian man to create an iPhone app that lets users warn each other when parking officers are spotted lurking near their cars. Full Story Top "Rubbish hotel" booked up for tourism fair Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:05 am PST Reuters - Celebrating a tourism fair staged this week to promote Spain's biggest industry is a new hotel in central Madrid whose maker freely admits is rubbish. Full Story Top Cat in Court, Giant Crayfish Found, Tasmanian Devil Die-Off: Buzz Week in Review Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:44 pm PST The Newsroom - This week, fur was flying: Animal tails caught the attention of the Web. A cat was summoned to jury duty. A giant crayfish was found, and the poor Tasmanian Devil is almost gone. These stories and more in your Buzz … Full Story Top Mystery WWII photos launch German war crimes probe Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:24 am PST Reuters - German prosecutors have begun an investigation into suspected war crimes on the Eastern Front after an unknown person handed in an envelope containing a trove of previously unseen World War Two photographs. Full Story Top Ill. salesman fired for Packers tie gets new job Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:58 pm PST AP - A Chicago man who was fired for wearing a Green Bay Packers necktie to his job at a car dealership is going back to work selling Chevrolets — but not for the same place. Full Story Top University awards first Beatles degree Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:17 am PST Reuters - A Canadian woman has become the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in Beatles studies. Full Story Top Pot-firing catapult found at Arizona-Mexico border Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:25 pm PST AP - Drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border apparently are trying a new approach — a catapult. Full Story Top Castration seen as climate change aid for reindeer Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:55 am PST Reuters - Indigenous Sami peoples in the Arctic may have found a way to help their reindeer herds cope with climate change: more castration. Full Story Top Missing pedigreed cat turns up — neutered Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:27 pm PST AP - A valuable pedigreed cat that went missing from its New Zealand home turned up two days later a little different — it had been surgically castrated. Full Story Top Ain't it grand: Piano in bay has Miami Beach abuzz Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:34 pm PST AP - There's a new set of Florida keys — a grand piano that has mysteriously appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay. Full Story Top Corruption song proves a hit for Indonesian ex-con Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:37 pm PST Reuters - A corrupt Indonesian tax official whose exploits in and out of court both shocked and entertained the nation before he was jailed last week has inspired a hit song by an ex-convict. Full Story Top 5-foot Monitor lizard wanders Calif. neighborhood Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:04 pm PST AP - Animal services officers often get calls reporting "huge," monstrous reptiles, only to arrive and find an itty-bitty garden snake. Full Story Top BBC offers an ending to Dickens' unfinished novel Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:53 am PST Reuters - Charles Dickens' unfinished work "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" is to be given a new ending in a BBC adaptation for television. Full Story Top

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