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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Sorry Charlie: Berlin Allied Checkpoint Bravo sold at auction

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Checkpoint Charlie's lesser-known Cold War contemporary, Allied Checkpoint Bravo, has been sold at auction for the minimum bid price of €45,000 ($58,000) to an anonymous purchaser. ... READ MORE

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A MAN was winched from his home as he lay on a ladder because he was too large for paramedics to take him out the front door. ... READ MORE

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A MINUSCULE cow with a taste for contemporary music has been named the world's smallest by the Guinness World Records book. ... READ MORE

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SOUTH African police are on the hunt for a "PigSpotter", a Twitter user who posts the locations of speed traps and roadblocks on Johannesburg's streets ... READ MORE

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A grand jury has indicted an Ohio woman accused of providing marijuana to her 2-year-old daughter and using her cell phone to record the child smoking the drug. ... READ MORE


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A nurse seized a dying man’s mobile phone after he called a hospital switchboard for help when she ignored his plea for a glass of water. ...

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A parrot is being hailed a hero after it fought off a gang of thieves when they targeted a pet shop. ... READ MORE

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An estate agent showed prospective buyers around an £800,000 house while the owner lay dead on her sofa, ... READ MORE

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Authorities May Charge Woman Accused Of Hoarding Nearly 130 Cats And 14 Dogs In Her Home ... READ MORE

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TEACHERS normally walk off the job over pay claims, but at a NSW North Coast high school they're going on strike because of bats. ... READ MORE

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MEN who operate at high levels of stress not only risk having poor health, they may also be damaging their love lives ... READ MORE

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Authorities say a would-be South Carolina bank robber left with a polite "thank you" after a teller told him she didn't have any money in her cash drawer. ... READ MORE

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A primary school teacher has been reprimanded in Japan for asking students to figure out how long it would take to kill 18 children at a rate of three murders per day. ... READ MORE

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Police say a prominent Wisconsin district attorney sent repeated text messages trying to spark an affair with a domestic abuse victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend ... READ MORE

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A driver has been caught on camera eating a bowl of cereal - while at the wheel of a lorry on a busy motorway. ... READ MORE

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A tow truck driver has been arrested after police say he crashed two cars while intoxicated — then got in his truck and tried to move the vehicles. ... READ MORE

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A boater who disappeared off Jaws Beach — on an island where one of the "Jaws" movies was filmed — is probably the person whose remains were found in the belly of a shark, police say. ... READ MORE

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A Michigan couple is crying unsportsmanlike conduct after their 6-year-old daughter was removed from a flag football cheerleading team because they complained that one of the team's chants was too risqué. ... READ MORE

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Oregon Firefighters Dig 1,500-pound Camel 'Moses' Out Of Sinkhole ... READ MORE

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A Minnesota court says pulling up the saggy pants of a crime suspect is not an illegal search, even if it turns up a gun. ... READ MORE

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The magazine ad for ice cream maker Antonio Federici showed the nun eating a tub of ice cream, with text that read: "Immaculately conceived ... Ice cream is our religion." ... READ MORE

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Ashley Anne Kirilow shaved her head and eyebrows and starved herself ... READ MORE

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Scott Maslen, of EastEnders and The Bill fame, is suffering from a case of "two toned sack" following the backstage incident ... READ MORE

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THIS newsreader has been caught with his trousers down — live on air. ... READ MORE

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... a woman stripped in the back seat of a cab, demanded the driver take her to her home state of Michigan and when he refused, stole his cab. ... READ MORE

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Man Found 4 Miles off Shore Was Buried at Sea by Family - Only to Float Back to Surface and Be Found by Fisherman ... READ MORE

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An endangered bird once thought to be extinct has died after being caught on a longline commercial fishing hook in Alaska ... READ MORE

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A FLORIDA woman is suing a hospital after she went home for a shower - and when she returned found her son had been circumcised by mistake. ... READ MORE

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