Taiwan dog poo lottery proves a 'big success'

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Taiwan dog poo lottery proves a 'big success'
A Taiwanese city is keeping dog mess off its streets by offering prizes to owners who clear up after their pets.
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Lady Gaga fears she will die like Princess Diana - report
Lady Gaga is releasing a song about the death of Princess Diana - believing she may end up dying the same way as the British royal.
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Criminal charges for 80-year-old who refused to stop feeding ducks
An 80-year-old woman known as "the bird lady" has been criminally charged after she refused to stop feeding flocks of ducks and geese that officials say are littering a pond and park with waste.
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Local Reporter Slurs and Stumbles Through Newscast
Annie Stensrud appeared drunk, drugged and/or generally out of sorts during Sunday’s 10 p.m. newscast on KEYC-TV in Mankato, Minn. Tilting her head, slurring her speech and mispronouncing such words as “institute” and “employees,” the droopy-eyed Stensrud rambled about the weather, a new cancer clinic and Christmas.
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Coke sharing its secret formula (sort of)
After 125 years, Coca-Cola is sharing its secret formula with the public.
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Starbucks cafe made from shipping containers
We already suspected the Starbucks of the future might be serving a whole lot of juice. Now, it looks like tomorrow’s Starbucks cafes might be rectangular and metal — and look suspiciously like shipping containers.
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NC Woman Charged With Buttocks Injections Gone Bad
An exotic dancer looking to enhance her backside is out of work and a North Carolina woman is accused of injecting the dancer with a disfiguring potion.
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Woman says she got staples in her Taco Bell Taco Supreme
A California woman claims she got a nasty surprise when she chomped into a Taco Bell Taco Supreme and found four blackened and rusty staples.
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'Witch's cottage' unearthed near Pendle Hill, Lancashire
Engineers have said they were "stunned" to unearth a 17th Century cottage, complete with a mummified cat, during a construction project in Lancashire.
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Treasure trove of iconic photos in Pa. mine
Millions of America's historic negatives, glass plates, pictures and films are being stored at near freezing temperatures in an old Pittsburgh mine, Iron Mountain, to preserve them for future generations.
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Ten 10 Most Shoplifted Items During the Holidays
According to Ad Week, one in every 11 people who enter a store will shoplift at least one item.
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Man acquitted of "weasel assault"
'Supposedly the occupant had asked the intruder why he had a dead weasel in the first place - to which the irate intruder purportedly responded... hey, that's no weasel, that's a marten.'
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Principal loses job over suspending 9-year-old who called teacher ‘cute'
A North Carolina school district forced a principal into retirement and issued an apology after a 9-year-old boy was suspended for calling his teacher "cute."
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Driver strikes high school student, tosses religious pamphlet, takes off
Authorities say a 58-year-old woman hit a Milby High School student with her car, tossed a religious pamphlet out her window at the fallen pedestrian, and drove away
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Florida man orders drugs at Burger King, no pot luck
A Florida man was arrested after he and a friend entered a Burger King drive-thru in Deltona and tried to order marijuana
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Woman sold carpet worth millions for €20,000
A Bavarian woman who thought her carpet was worth about €900 was delighted when an auctioneer sold it for nearly €20,000 – but took him to court after it was then sold at an auction for more than €7 million.
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Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured
It is an image that is sure to shock many people.
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Police baffled by thefts of underwear and sex toys
Cops are still on the hunt for an underwear and sex toy thief in New Brunswick.
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'Pimped up' mobility scooter seized by UK authorities after scaring deer
A "PIMPED up" mobility scooter - with a petrol engine and capable of traveling at 60m/h (96km/h) - was seized by council officials in the north of England amid claims its owner was wreaking havoc in the neighbourhood.
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For Zuzu of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ it wasn’t such a wonderful life afterward
“I never saw the movie before,” said Karolyn Grimes, 71, remembering living near Kansas City, Mo., in December 1979 and catching out of the corner of her eye flickering images on the television of familiar faces and places from long ago.
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