SOURCE LINK: http://www.canada.com/life/Bikinis+hugs+hairy+heroics+world+records/2219428/story.html
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LONDON - Stripping down to bikinis, cuddling strangers in railway stations and dragging buses with their hair, thousands of people across the globe attempted to break curious world records Thursday.
From Australia to China, Britain, Egypt, Lebanon and Tennessee, people put their scalps, stomachs and reputations on the line.
The antics were all in the name of the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day, with hopefuls trying to secure a spot in the next edition of their famous Guinness World Records book.
HEADLINE: Did Doc Implant Own Sperm in Patient?
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/13/earlyshow/health/main5634302.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.10
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A Connecticut doctor was sued for allegedly using his own sperm -- instead of a patient's husband's -- for an artificial insemination procedure that produced twins.
CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace reports thatd the 2005 lawsuit was quickly settled for an undisclosed amount of money and sealed, so the family and doctor aren't commenting on the case.
But other patients who used the doctor to get pregnant are asking questions and contacting lawyers and so far, Wallace says, at least one attorney has come forward, saying he may ask a court to force the doctor to answer questions raised by the allegations.
The accusations against Connecticut Dr. Ben Ramaley surfaced after a month-long investigation by the Greenwich Time newspaper.
Reporter Debra Friedman discovered the suit filed by an unnamed family after a DNA test found that the husband wasn't the biological father of the couple's twin girls
HEADLINE: Wife posed as schoolgirl to trap paedophile...
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6914986.ece
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A woman who suspected her 68-year-old husband of propositioning teenagers on the internet posed as a schoolgirl to lure him into a trap.
Cheryl Roberts, 61, created a false profile and pretended to be 14 as she exchanged intimate messages with him in a chat room. After he asked her for sex she reported him to the police.
David Roberts found out that he had been making advances to his own wife only after being arrested. He admitted that he had hoped to have sex with the “schoolgirl”.
HEADLINE: Woman's will leaves $3m kitty for stray cats
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,28323,26348230-5017313,00.html
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IT WAS stray cats and dogs she loved, so in the end Daina Silins gave them her $3 million estate.
The former dentist from Newport, in Sydney's north, was found slumped in her armchair three days after her death last November.
The first sign she had died was when a neighbour's dog, which she used to feed, was found scratching at her door, The Daily Telegraph reports
HEADLINE: Man to give away half his life's pay
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,28323,26344124-5017313,00.html
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AN AUSTRALIAN academic at Oxford University has decided living like a student isn't so bad, pledging more than half his career earnings to charity.
Dr Toby Ord, a 30-year-old ethics researcher with the Future of Humanity Institute, has agreed to give up 10 per cent of his annual salary, plus any yearly earnings above £20,000 ($35,631).
Dr Ord says if he lives like a student, he should be able to give away around £1 million ($1.78 million).
HEADLINE: World's Tallest Man Unveils Largest Cookie in Norway
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574669,00.html?test=latestnews
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OSLO — The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo.HEADLINES: Obese kids are coronary time bombs
Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey displayed the 1,435-pound biscuit. Baked locally in the traditional gingerbread-man shape, it beat the previous gingerbread cookie record of 1,307 pounds set in 2006 in Smithville, Texas.
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/12/moh.kids.cardiac.problems.obesity/index.html
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Russell Pate was driving through a neighborhood one late afternoon when he noticed something odd.
He couldn't hear the sounds of children playing. No jump rope patter. No squeals of a bike's brake. No crack of a bat -- just silence.
The streets were deserted because the neighborhood kids were cocooned in their homes, Pate says. It was a scene he's seen over and over again.
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