Squirrels feast on town's Christmas lights

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HEADLINE: Squirrels feast on town's Christmas lights
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GREY squirrels are ruining Christmas in the US state of New Jersey by eating all the festive lights.
Well, not all of them - the red ones seem to be off-limits.
Officials in the town of Fredericton say the rodents have developed a taste for the lights that decorate their downtown Christmas tree and have implemented several measures to deter them without much success.

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HEADLINE: Worker who licked chicken faces jail
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A SUPERMARKET worker who filmed himself licking a chicken before putting it back on a shelf has been warned he may face jail.
Adeel Ayub, 30, a former employee of British supermarket chain Asda, was seen tearing off the plastic wrapping from the bird and licking its skin, in mobile phone footage he and his colleagues posted on YouTube.
The films, which were later referred to police, also showed the group setting off fire extinguishers and urinating in bins in a North England chain of the store.
The footage was played as Ayub appeared in court to face five charges of criminal damage.

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HEADLINE: Grandma Gave 3-Year-Old Pot Cookies
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CLIDENVER -- A Denver medical marijuana activist was under investigation after she gave her 3-year-old grandson at least one peanut butter cookie laced with pot and the boy couldn't wake up the next morning.
The toddler was rushed to the hospital Dec. 5. where he was treated in intensive care and fully recovered, according to a police report. Medical tests determined the child had THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in his system.
In a tragic twist, the 44-year-old grandmother, Erin Marcove, took her own life Dec. 12, a week after

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HEADLINE: Friends find they're married to same man
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A CHINESE man has been arrested after two women met each other on a social networking site and realised they were both married to him.
The Mexican national, identified as "Chang" was charged with bigamy, China Daily said.
He was arrested last week after one of the wives added her husband's "friends," including the other spouse, to her contact list on Kaixin001, a Chinese version of Facebook.
The two women became friends, but the man was rumbled when they exchanged wedding photos which featured the same groom....

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HEADLINE: Giant turkeys cause mass panic, hysteria
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TASMANIAN butchers say they are facing the nightmare of irate customers and financial losses thanks to over-sized turkeys
The state's turkey supplier Nichols says its Christmas birds are up to 2kg heavier than expected this year thanks mostly to a cooler growing season, according to a report in The Mercury.
Home cooks who ordered a 3kg turkey for Christmas Day are likely to find themselves battling to get a bird that will fit in the oven.
"It's a nightmare," Shane Mundy of Hill Street Gourmet Meats said.
Customers were furious and many had cancelled entire orders of up to $500, including hams and barbecue meats.
"We've had cancelled orders and it means more turkeys that we're going to have to freeze or make sausages with, so we lose money," Mr Mundy said yesterday.

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HEADLINE: 'Rent-a-Womb' Business Booming in India
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Couples desperate for children are turning to India, where relaxed laws on surrogacy means the business of babies is booming.

In India, a womb can be rented for about $3,000 and in vitro fertilization treatment is a fraction of what it costs in the west.
"My criteria is very strict," Dr. Anup Gupta told Sky News. "The surrogate must be healthy and she must already have a family with at least one or two children of her own, minimum. She must not be doing this primarily for financial reasons but because she wants to help another family."
Gupta says he gets about 15 patients from abroad every month looking for a surrogate.

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