Air Canada flight cancelled due to giant rat on plane

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HEADLINE: Air Canada flight cancelled due to giant rat on plane
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/giant-rat-on-plane-cancels-air-canada-flight/story-e6frfq80-1225835295835
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HUNDREDS of passengers were ordered off a plane bound for London from Ottawa moments before it was due to take off after a huge rat was discovered on board. The Boeing 767 was waiting to taxi down the runway when a passenger spotted the rodent in an overhead locker, The Sun reports.

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HEADLINE: 'Fake doctor' treated over 400 patients
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/fake-doctor-balaji-varatharaju-treated-over-400-patients/story-e6frfkvr-1225835255318
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A FORMER Adelaide University student has been charged with masqueraded as a doctor at a Northern Territory hospital. Balaji Varatharaju, 29, treated more than 400 patients while working in medicine, surgery and the emergency department at Alice Springs Hospital over more than six months, the Sunday Mail reports.

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HEADLINE: Fish rain down on Top End town
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/fish-rain-down-on-top-end-town-of-lajamanu/story-e6frfku9-1225835191966
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HEADLINE: Fish rain down on Top End town
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/fish-rain-down-on-top-end-town-of-lajamanu/story-e6frfku9-1225835191966
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FISH have fallen from the sky onto a Top End town - not once but twice. The Northern Territory News reports the freak phenomena happened on Thursday and Friday afternoon at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine.

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HEADLINE: 'Granddad Bandit' hits another bank
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/26/granddad.bandit/index.html?hpt=T2
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A man dubbed the "Granddad Bandit," suspected in more than a dozen robberies, struck again this week, the FBI said Friday.

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HEADLINE: D.C. Couple Gets Surprise FedEx Marijuana Delivery
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587599,00.html?test=latestnews
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A Capitol Hill couple got more than they bargained for after what they thought was a routine Fed Ex delivery. The box they received contained $120,000 worth of pot, MyFoxDC.com reported.

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HEADLINE: Rare Disorder Makes Baby's Skin Like 'Tree Bark'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587499,00.html
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A Chinese baby is suffering from a rare skin disorder that makes the skin peel off his body, ninemsn.com.au reported.
The baby has a severe case of lamellar ichthyosis...

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HEADLINE: Man Carjacked While Passed Out In Diabetic Coma
SOURCE LINK: http://www.latimes.com/wreg-coma-carjacking,0,1671533.story
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Memphis Police say an 18-year-old and two other juveniles are behind bars facing charges of carjacking
Police say they took a man passed out from a diabetic coma out of his car

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HEADLINE: Student admits hanging noose in campus library
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/26/california.noose/index.html?hpt=T2
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The University of California San Diego has suspended a student who admitted to hanging a noose in a campus library, school officials announced Friday.

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HEADLINE: Ala. Man Attacked With Worcestershire Sauce Bottle
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/26/ap/strange/main6247279.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
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Police said a 38-year-old man was charged with beating another man at a motel with a sauce bottle and a fire extinguisher. Police said the suspect was being held at the Lauderdale County Jail

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HEADLINE: 'Matchmaking' in Middle School Angers Parents
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587496,00.html?test=latestnews
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The Elwood Community School drama club in Elwood, Ind., is using their own matchmaking Web site for fundraising. The Web site was created by the school, and students in grades six through 10 can pay to find a compatible boyfriend or girlfriend, WISH-TV reported.

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HEADLINE: Belgium offers chickens to waste-cutting households
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8539877.stm
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Residents of a Belgian town are to be offered chickens as part of a campaign to reduce household waste. The town of Mouscron has 50 pairs of chickens that it will distribute to families with sufficient space to keep the birds in their gardens. ...

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HEADLINE: Theme park Thorpe Park urine competition
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/theme-park-thorpe-park-urine-competition/story-e6frfq80-1225834585539
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WHO has Britain's smelliest urine? Thorpe Park - billed as UK's most extreme horror theme park - has decided to find out by asking visitors to provide smelly urine samples.
Visitors will be offered the opportunity to urinate in small plastic pots at special "deposit booths''.
It will then be judged for odour, with the most disgusting urinator winning $860 ...

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HEADLINE: Burglar granny had 27 aliases
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/hardened-80-year-old-criminal-had-rap-sheet-dating-back-to-the-50s/story-e6frev20-1225834912999
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AN 80-year-old woman with a criminal record stretching back to 1955 has been sentenced to three years in state prison for ransacking and stealing cash from a medical office.

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HEADLINE: Stampede to buy 'botox' in a bottle
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/stampede-for-youthful-skin-via-new-botox-in-a-bottle/story-e6frfkvr-1225834970381
CLIP:

A NEW product's just been released that reduces wrinkles in just 90 seconds.
Described as "botox in a bottle", the application mimics the effects of the South-East Asian temple viper's venom, freezing facial muscles to smooth out wrinkles without the use of needles.

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HEADLINE: Wedding for rapists and goat victim
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/wedding-for-rapists-and-goat-victim-in-mozambique/story-e6frfku0-1225834936925
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TWO young men accused of having sex with a goat in central Mozambique were facing criminal charges, and the goat's owner was demanding they make traditional wedding arrangements, state media said today.

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HEADLINE: School dorm shuts due to 27 lesbians
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/south-african-school-dorm-shuts-over-lesbian-kiss/story-e6frfku0-1225834943088
CLIP:

A SOUTH African girls' boarding school outside Durban has closed down a dormitory after accusing 27 residents of being lesbians.
Two girls were caught kissing in the dormitory, which houses 300 students, The Mercury newspaper reported today.

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HEADLINE: Baby Girl Dies as Doctors Fight Over Delivery
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587467,00.html
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A newborn girl died after two doctors fought over who was going to deliver her while the mother was in labor, it has emerged.
The young mother begged the doctors to stop fighting and help her, she told a Brazilian television station.

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HEADLINE: Flight Canceled After 2 Flight Attendants Get Into Fistfight
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587474,00.html?test=latestnews
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A flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta was canceled after two flight attendants got into a fist fight, AJC.com reported.

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HEADLINE: 'World's oldest dog' a pub regular
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/worlds-oldest-dog-a-pub-regular/story-e6frflri-1225834655272
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A BEAGLE cross has become the oldest dog in the world after racking up an incredible 147 dog years, with her owner crediting her longevity to her weekly trip to an English pub. Lulu, who is 21 in human years, is deaf, walks with a limp and is practically blind, which means she often bumps into walls by mistake, The Sun reported.

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