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Marine surveys record 'brainless fish' off Orkney
Scotland's biggest horse mussel bed and a "faceless and brainless" fish-like creature were recorded during government-backed surveys this year.
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Proposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational
Time is eternal, but methods of tracking it are not — and so a Johns Hopkins University astronomer wants to replace the Gregorian calendar, with its leap years and floating dates and 15th-century effluvia, with a sleek and standardized system for the world.
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99-year-old divorces wife after he discovered 1940s affair
An Italian couple are to become the world's oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s.
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Crime scene cleanup ad lifts Handel's Messiah
Who says beautiful music and blood spatter cleanup can't go together.
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Topless waitresses told to cover up after Montreal law says no to nudity
Waitresses at a Canadian restaurant in Montreal can no longer serve customers in the nude after the diner lost its legal battles against the city law.
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Smuggled caviar found in Russian morgue
Police have discovered a huge stash of contraband caviar stored in a hospital morgue freezer alongside dead bodies in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg.
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Engineer lived with bullet in his head for 8 decades
When a Russian man was only 3, his older brother accidentally shot him with a pistol. More than eight decades later, the bullet was still there.
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92 couples tie knot in mass wedding
92 engaged couples have tied the knot in a mass wedding in the Peruvian capital of Lima.
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New car seat recognises driver's unique 'bottom-print' - and could spell an end to fiddling for keys
Biometric security systems usually on unique, unchangeable 'markers' such as fingerprints
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The New York Times Has a Weiner Moment
'... An email apparently sent out to the entire user database appeared to suggest that. In fact, the Times even sent the email to people that don't subscribe to the paper -- a total of 8.6 million readers, rather than the 300 it intended to message, the company said.'
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NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne Bashes Public Breastfeeding After Supermarket Encounter
NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne has found his way into a heap of controversy for tweeting about his loss of appetite following a glimpse of a woman breastfeeding openly in a grocery store.
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BBC criticised for naming panda as a woman of the year
The BBC has come in for ridicule after it included a giant panda called Sweetie alongside Pippa Middleton and Adele in its list of the 12 women of the year.
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France limbers up for baby-making week
A curious increase in the number of babies born in September has led experts to conclude that the New Year festivities and the days surrounding them are when French people are most likely to conceive.
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Hawaii man charged in bar assault with cow bone
A Hawaii man has been charged with four counts of assault after allegedly attacking a group of men with a cow bone.
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Cheetah the 1930s Tarzan chimp dies aged 80 – but was he the real star and even that old?
It is claimed he outlived both of his co-stars Johnny Weissmuller, who died in 1984 aged 79, and Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Tarzan's mate Jane and who died aged 87 in 1998.
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Man calls 911 after being hit by grocery cart
Having your foot run over by a shopping cart is not an emergency, a male shopper learned Tuesday.
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'Drunk shopping' boosting online retail
More than 40 per cent of Britons have shopped online after drinking, according to a survey
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Brit catches fish that bites men's testicles
A British angler told today how he snared a predator fish that kills men by biting off their testicles.
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Clergymen clash at birthplace of Jesus
A brawl has erupted between rival clergymen participating in an annual cleaning ritual at the church built at Jesus's traditional birthplace.
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