Balloon boy 'flying saucer' sells for $2,500

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Balloon boy 'flying saucer' sells for $2,500
Richard Heene's "flying saucer" didn't fetch the $1 million he had hoped.
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Wreck of 1853 schooner discovered in Lake Ontario
Undersea explorers have discovered a 19th-century, three-masted Canadian schooner that sank with a cargo of coal in Lake Ontario in 1906.
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Urge to binge on fatty food dates back to the Ice Age
British scientists have discovered a DNA switch in the brain that they believe makes Europeans far more likely to binge on fatty food than those living in the East.
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Doctor Sets Out to 'Cure' Bad Driving
Dr. Jin Huiqing has spent nearly three decades trying to figure out why some motorists seem more accident prone than others.
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Man Stabs Himself After Tripping Over Cat
A Freemansburg, Pa. man is recovering after stabbing himself late Thursday because he tripped over his cat.
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U.K. woman ordered not to breastfeed in public
A woman at a town hall in England was ordered not to breastfeed her baby because she was in a "multicultural building."
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Free circumcision makes good politics
As an exercise in good governance, the mass circumcision ceremony for some 100 boys from disadvantaged families in an old Istanbul square ticks a lot of boxes for Turkey’s ruling AK Party and its voters.
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Love letter delayed 53 years wending its way to recipient in US
The long-lost love letter to a U.S. college student is on its way to him after a delay of more than 50 years.
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Lawsuit says grandma illegally downloaded porn
Jane is in her 70s, a retired widow who spends her days doing volunteer work in the East Bay and fussing over her grandchildren. She also downloads porn illegally.
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Owling - is it the new planking
Forget planking – 'owling' is the new online picture craze that is turning heads across the world.
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Angry bull butts naked reveller
This is the moment an angry bull decided to take revenge on a naked reveller.
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Scientists crack code on Thomas Edison's 123-year-old attempt at creating a recording star
Scientists have recovered a 123-year-old recording made by Thomas Edison that is believed to be the world's first attempt at a talking doll.
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Meet the 10-year-old sake expert
A 10-year-old has become the youngest certified sake expert in Japanese history.
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Running of the lambs event sparks outrage in New Zealand
Running of the lambs, a tamer version of Spain's running of the bulls festival, has sparked outrage among animal lovers in New Zealand.
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Extreme kayak fisherman dragged into sea by shark
David Saldamando and pal Scotty Westgaard, who describe themselves as hard-core kayak anglers, caught the beast while fishing off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and decided to take a picture with it.
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Child found home alone with 19 snakes
A 28-year-old man was arrested and charged after allegedly leaving his child home alone with nearly two dozen dangerous animals.
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Los Angeles Braces for ‘CARMAGEDDON'
Thousands of doctors and nurses will bunk at hospitals, an emergency operation center will be set up and Southern California residents are being urged to stay home and stock up on food.
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NM man accused of handing out semen-tainted yogurt
A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on charges he handed out semen-tainted yogurt samples at a grocery store.
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Feds bust group trying to smuggle Ancient Egyptian mummy coffins
A grave-robbing group of ancient Egypt aficionados have been charged with smuggling 2000-year-old sarcophagus coffins - minus the mummies - into the U.S.
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