Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants

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HEADLINE: Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/26/international/i140829S94.DTL&tsp=1
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A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand's wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.
Hans Kurt Kubus, 58, is to be deported to Germany as soon as he is released from prison, Judge Colin Doherty ordered Tuesday.
Kubus was caught by wildlife officials at Christchurch International Airport on South Island in December, about to board an overseas flight with 44 geckos and skinks in a hand-sewn package concealed in his underwear.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/26/international/i140829S94.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0dlMaxHtI

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HEADLINE: Mum advertises for 'new grandparents'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/mum-begins-search-for-kids-new-grandparents/story-e6frfku0-1225823849449
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A MELBOURNE mum is seeking new grandparents for her three young children.
Fiona Swan, from Caroline Springs, told the Melton Leader no previous grandparenting experience was necessary, although applicants must have a zest for life, openness, and a willingness to share their wisdom, love, and time.

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HEADLINE: Police bust nude train riders in Moscow
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/police-bust-nude-train-riders-in-moscow/story-e6frev20-1225823669389
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POLICE were forced to fine one of three men who accepted a dare to take a nude train ride as part of a bet with a group of young women.
The three men in Moscow stripped and boarded a train at the city's Novogireyevo station shortly after midnight Sunday, RIA Novosti reported Monday.
"A police detail met them at the next station, Perovo, but only managed to detain one man, as the two others got into a train and escaped," a city police spokesman said.
"The detained 20-year-old Muscovite confessed that he and his friends bet with their acquaintances, young women, that they would go on a ride in the subway naked," he said. "The girls were waiting for them at the Perovo station."

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HEADLINE: Women 'feel more guilt than men'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7079068/Women-feel-more-guilt-than-men.html
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Researchers discovered that not only do women feel the emotion more intensely but that men feel 'too little' guilt when they behave badly.
Middle-aged women tend to feel the most guilt about their actions, according to the study, by academics at the University of the Basque Country in Spain
Men aged 25 to 33 were the least sensitive, which this group displaying "comparatively low" feelings of guilt.
Itziar Etxebarria, who led the study, said: "Feelings of guilt are more intense among females, not only among adolescents but also among young and adult women.

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HEADLINE: Ear-cleaning man grounds plane
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/ear-cleaning-man-grounds-plane/story-e6frezhr-1225823675216
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ANTI-TERROR police grounded a flight after a man had a pack of matches on a plane, which he claimed were for cleaning his ears.
Police grounded the he Air India flight to Bangkok last week after they found the pack of matches on Rashid Rehman, who claimed he used them instead of Q-tips to dig the dirt out of his ears, the Croatian Times reports
The 30-year-old man told police he didn't use the cotton buds because he could get matches for free at bars and restaurants.

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HEADLINE: Earth becoming invisible to aliens
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7077464/Earth-becoming-invisible-to-aliens.html
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Dr Frank Drake said the phasing out of analogue transmissions from television, radio and radar was making our planet electronically invisible from outer space.
While old style signals used to spread out millions of miles into outer space, even reaching some distant stars, digital transmissions are much weaker and therefore are less easy to detect by extra-terrestrial life forms.

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HEADLINE: I hope my bum looks big in this
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/i-hope-my-bum-looks-big-in-this-women-snap-up-derriere-boosting-undies/story-e6freuy9-1225823749965
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IT seems bums are the big thing in western Sydney at the moment.
Flat-bottomed women trying to emulate "bootylicious" stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles are snapping up padded underwear to add centimetres to their derrieres.
Jenny Tew designs and sells the garments from her lingerie shop in Cabramatta.
"They're very popular. Everyone who walks past and sees it buys it, especially skinny people and Asian people because most of us have flat bums," said the Kimarie shop owner

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HEADLINE: Cats and dogs to be taken off menu in China
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7003032.ece
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China could end a centuries-old custom and remove dogs and cats from the menu in the nation’s first draft law against animal abuse.

Anyone caught eating them would face a fine of as much as 5,000 yuan (£450) and up to 15 days in jail if the law is passed.
The draft is expected to be sent to the parliament, the National People’s Congress, in April, state media said.
Dog is an age-old delicacy. Its meat is believed to have warming properties making it particularly favoured as a winter dish. Consumption of dog meat – known euphemistically as “fragrant meat” – is most widespread in northeastern China where temperatures plunge in the winter months. But restaurants with signs out offering “fragrant meat’ can be seen in almost every city in China.

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HEADLINE: More couples split or divorce in January
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/couples-decide-to-call-it-quits-in-january/story-e6frfkvr-1225823784977
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JANUARY is prime time for divorce or leaving your partner, according to a family law expert.
Brisbane's Clarissa Rayward said the number of inquiries from people contemplating separation or who had already separated jumped each January.
"Perhaps it is due to the stressful Christmas period being the final straw for already strained relationships," she said. "It can also be because of people acting on their New Year resolutions for a fresh start."
Despite the surge in post-Christmas bust-ups, she said Australia still had not got to the point in England where a law firm advertised divorce gift vouchers ..

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