Illegal immigrant hidden in a suitcase

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HEADLINE: Illegal immigrant hidden in a suitcase
SOURCE: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/illegal-immigrant-hidden-in-suitcase/story-e6frev00-1225821063355
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The 15-year-old Afghan boy was discovered curled into foetal position inside the case while his 17-year-old brother was hidden in the foot well covered with blankets.
Officers immediately arrested the Greek driver of the car, Alexandros Lepesiotis, 42, and charged him with illegally smuggling people into the country

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HEADLINE: Hotel offers human bed-warming service
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/holiday-innl-offers-human-bed-warming-service/story-e6frfku0-1225821073702
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HOLIDAY Inn will offer a free five-minute human bed warming service at its London Kensington hotel throughout next week.
Sky News reports that if requested, a willing member of the hotel staff will jump in your bed, dressed head to foot in an all-in-one sleeper suit, until it's feeling nice and toasty.
"Like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed" is how Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall described the idea.
Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea actually could help people drop off to sleep.
"There's plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night when body temperature starts to drop,” he said.
"A warm bed - approximately 20 to 24C - is a good way to start this process whereas a cold bed would inhibit sleep.

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HEADLINE: Club offers free drinks by bust size
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/singapore-overeasy-nightclub-offers-free-drinks-by-bust-size/story-e6frfq80-1225821051666
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A NIGHTCLUB in Singapore is offering free drinks to women according to their bra size according a report in the China Press, MyFox National reported.
"Fill My Cups" nights are all the rage at the OverEasy nightclub, complete with promotional posters proclaiming "Booze for your boobs."
The stunt has been called both humorous and distasteful.
"I think the concept is funny but I would not degrade myself by being a part of it," a 19-year-old women told The New Paper, a local

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HEADLINE: Teen drove into ditch, vanished
SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/18/grace.coldcase.swanson/index.html?hpt=T2
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New York It was the last day of classes, and Brandon Swanson, a 19-year-old freshman at Minnesota West Community and Technical College, was celebrating with his friends.
Swanson called home shortly after midnight May 14, 2008, telling his parents he needed a ride because he had driven into a ditch in the neighboring town of Lynd, Minnesota. Annette and Brian Swanson immediately set out in their pickup to look for their son and his green Chevy Lumina sedan.
"We got in the pickup to go to this spot where he felt he was," Brian Swanson recalled. He thought he knew exactly where his son was, about 10 minutes from their home in Marshall.
"He was absolutely positive he knew where he was," Brian Swanson said. The parents stayed on the phone, talking to their son as they headed to pick him up.

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HEADLINE: Robot maid cleans house and heats food
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/technology/robot-maid-cleans-house-and-heats-food/story-e6frfro0-1225820844795
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SOUTH Korean scientists have developed a walking robot maid which can clean a home, dump clothes in a washing machine and even heat food in a microwave.
Mahru-Z has a human-like body including a rotating head, arms, legs and six fingers plus three-dimensional vision to recognise chores that need to be tackled, media reports said today.
"The most distinctive strength of Mahru-Z is its visual ability to observe objects, recognise the tasks needed to be completed, and execute them,'' You Bum-Jae, head of the cognitive robot centre at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, told the Korea Times.
"It recognises people, can turn on microwave ovens, washing machines and toasters, and also pick up sandwiches, cups and whatever else it senses as objects.''

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HEADLINE: World's most expensive ham goes on sale
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/world/worlds-most-expensive-ham-goes-on-sale/story-e6frfkyi-1225820688872
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world's most expensive ham has gone on sale, complete with its own DNA certificate as proof of authenticity.

The leg of Iberico ham, which weighs seven kilos, is on sale at the food hall in Selfridges in London's Oxford Street.
The cost - a juicy £1,800 ($2,900), Sky News reports.
The whole process began with 50 animals being specially selected by pig farmer and ham expert Manuel Maldonado.
They were allowed to roam over fields in Extramadura in western Spain, enjoying a diet of acorns and roots that help give the ham its distinctive flavor.

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HEADLINE: 'Warlike' blondes get what they want
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/world/warlike-blondes-get-what-they-want-study/story-e6frfkyi-1225820680004
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IT'S official - blondes do have more fun.
According to a study by the University of California, that's because blondes are more confident and aggressive, even displaying "warlike" tendancies to get their own way in life.
The study of 156 US students showed that because blondes believe they are more attractive to men than redheads or brunettes, they "feel more entitled" to getting their own way.
"What we did not expect to find was how much more warlike they are than their peers on campus," study leader Aaron Sell told UK tabloid The Sun.

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HEADLINE: Jail for Wis. Woman Who Stripped to Avoid Arrest
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583195,00.html?test=latestnews
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — A 36-year-old Wisconsin woman who stripped in front of her children in a drunken attempt to avoid a shoplifting arrest is going to jail.
As part of a plea agreement, Julia E. Laack of Sheboygan pleaded no contest to three charges including retail theft. The Sheboygan Press says she was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail.
Prosecutors say Laack stole beef jerky and a lighter from a convenience store in October. They say when police went to her home she began screaming at three children and told a teenager the incident was his fault
Laack then stripped to her underwear and told officers they couldn't arrest her because she would be naked.

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HEADLINE: Baby boom to follow big freeze
SOURCE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7006061/After-the-big-freeze-the-baby-boom.html
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Midwives and economists are predicting a major baby boom this autumn following the “big freeze” in which heavy snow and icy roads have kept millions of Britons indoors.
Maternity services are preparing for a surge in conceptions among couples who have been confined to their homes for long nights and cosy days during the coldest winter for almost five decades.
Studies abroad have identified a sharp rise in the number of births nine months after heavy snow, as well as after major power cuts.

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