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Thursday, May 17, 2012

The great skivvy handover - Emma Watkins will be the first female Wiggle

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The great skivvy handover - Emma Watkins will be the first female Wiggle
At the age of 22, Emma Watkins is the face of the new generation of The Wiggles.
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Massive chocolate sculpture breaks Guinness World Record
California chocolatiers have broken a Guinness World Record for building the world's largest chocolate sculpture. The sculpture, crafted by employees of Qzina Specialty Foods in Irvine, California, models an ancient Mayan temple and weighs 18,239 pounds, surpassing the previous record set in Italy in 2010 by more than 7,500 pounds.
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Man falls off highway, fabricates carjack story
-- A San Mateo man who fell off an elevated highway ramp early Thursday and told police he had been trying to flee an armed carjacker made the story up.
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Restaurant 'fines' diners at Chinese buffet for leaving food on their plates
A Chinese restaurant offering an all-you-can-eat buffet is charging customers £20 in 'wastage' if they leave food on their plates.
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Man swallows $20K gem, Canada cops wait for him to expel it
Ontario - A man with expensive taste is being held at police headquarters in Canada's Ontario Province while everyone waits for him to produce some hard evidence - a $20,000 diamond he allegedly swallowed.
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Horse runs into sea, rescued a mile offshore
An Arabian horse named William got spooked during a California beachside photo shoot Tuesday and swam a mile out to sea before rescuers got to him and helped him back to shore.
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Buzzer sounds in World's Longest Hockey Game
Two-hundred and forty-six grueling hours and $1.4 million later, the World's Longest Hockey Game is finally over.
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Donna Summer dead at 63
Disco legend Donna Summer died Thursday at age 63 after a battle with cancer.
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Suspected robbers accidentally blow up own bus
A suspected armed robber was killed when explosives his gang was transporting accidentally went off in the centre of Nigeria’s main oil city of Port Harcourt on Thursday, police said.
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'Leadfoot’ grandma hits NASCAR track
Geraldine Beasley says this is one of the things on her bucket list.
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Rocks from beach catch fire in woman's pocket
A woman literally burned a hole in her pocket from rocks collected on a family beach trip to San Clemente. In an Eyewitness News exclusive, authorities say the woman suffered serious burns.
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Crook robs Brookyn bank with phone call
Cops are looking for a clever crook who held up a Brooklyn bank with a phone call.
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Russian man jumps in chute to escape girlfriend
A man in central Russia had to be rescued by emergency workers from a rubbish chute after he jumped into it to hide from his girlfriend.
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Michigan teenager finds part of finger in Arby's beef sandwich
A 14-year-old boy bit into part of a finger while eating at an Arby's restaurant in Michigan in the US.
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Ancient 'Loch Ness Monster' suffered arthritis
Ancient creatures resembling stout-necked Loch Ness Monsters apparently developed arthritis in their monster jaws.
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Florida lowers passing grade for state writing exam after over 70 percent of fourth-graders fail
The Florida Department of Education lowered the performance level standard on a state writing exam after only 27 percent of fourth graders passed.
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Man who killed penis-biting fiance guilty of manslaughter
A Nova Scotia man has been found guilty of manslaughter after he hit his fiance hard enough to kill her after she bit his penis.
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N.Y. Principal Accused Of Creepy Oral Sex Comments To Be Reassigned
When a principal in the Bronx made remarks to female staffers about getting oral sex from a copy machine and other office goods, he got a letter of reprimand and sensitivity training. Then a 15-year-old female student claimed that he made comments that made her uncomfortable too.
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