WEIRD IS THE WORLD: First lady targets world record for jumping jacks

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First lady targets world record for jumping jacks
Michelle Obama wants to jump into the Guinness World Records book next week by helping break the title for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.
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Barber accidentally shot in the butt
Parma barbershop owner Kurt Voelker is recovering from an unusual injury that people do not normally get while working in a barber shop.
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Poop-powered Toto toilet tricycle to trek across Japan
Toto, has created a tricycle that runs entirely on number two.
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Teachers forced to act like police after court ruling
Teachers could be forced to warn students as young as 10 about their legal rights before counselling them after a remarkable court decision.
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British mom accused of faking son's cancer
A British woman is accused of not only convincing medical authorities her son had cancer, she convinced the boy and his sister, too.
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Dancing With The Stars gets naked in Argentina
Couple strips on Argentinean DWTS
Reality starlet's parents in audience
TV channel facing penalties for airing show
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Boy thwarts armed robbery at Turkish jewellers - video
A 12 year-old boy came to his father's rescue when he helped foil a jewellery heist in Istanbul.
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Speeder caught by his own cellphone
A Swiss motorist used his mobile phone to record himself driving on an autoroute near Geneva at 320 km an hour, nearly three times the speed limit.
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Drunk Dutch drivers must fit 'alcolocks' to cars
Dutch drivers caught operating a car while massively over the legal alcohol limit will be forced to fit their cars with “alcolocks” which automatically lock the engine if the driver is over the limit.
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Drunk Swiss man mistakes road into river for underground car park
A Swiss man was arrested for drink driving after going to collect his car - the morning after he drove it into the Ruess river near Luzern after mistaking a boating ramp for the entrance to an underground car park.
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Drink-driver almost four times over legal limit runs himself over with his own van
A businessman became so drunk that he forgot to put the handbrake on his work van allowing it to roll over him after he had passed out.
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Monster asteroid has a mountain taller than Mount Everest, scientists say
A giant asteroid hurtling through our solar system's asteroid belt boasts a mountain that makes Everest look like an ant hill, it has been claimed.
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Good Samaritan mistakes Jupiter for distress flare
Lifeboat crews launched a rescue mission after a member of the public reported seeing distress flares over the North Sea that turned out to be the planet Jupiter.
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100-year-old woman gets male stripper for birthday
A woman in England has celebrated her 100th birthday with a male stripper.
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Football fans have sex during match
A couple have been caught engaging in sex during a Bundesliga football match.
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New Jersey Girl, 10, Told to Get Rid of Her 4-H Chickens
A 10-year-old girl is the latest to run afoul of a southern New Jersey town's livestock ordinance.
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Great Bake-Off eclipsed by the squirrel’s nuts
A well-endowed Essex squirrel has become an online hit after appearing in a BBC cookery show.

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Hottest curry competition questioned
The Scottish Ambulance Service wants a review of a curry eating competition after two people landed in hospital and several others were sick during the weekend event.
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