AP - A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
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AP - It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, "My kids are a pain." But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.
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 AP - This small northeastern Georgia town's population boom is frightening. In a bid to break a world record for scarecrows and scare up some fun for the fall season, thousands of straw-stuffed newcomers are creeping across town.
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AP - An Indian woman gave birth to a healthy boy aboard a jet airliner while flying to Australia to reunite with her husband.
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 AP - Spanish revelers have pelted each with 113 tons of ripe tomatoes in an annual food fight. Town hall says an estimated 40,000 people took part in the hour of messy fun in the village of Bunol near Valencia. The ritual dates back to the 1940s.
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 Reuters - The Tower of Pisa is being
challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the
northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe's most steeply leaning
tower.
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 Reuters - An Italian museum Thursday defied Pope
Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture
portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg
that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.
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 Reuters - The price of rat meat has quadrupled
in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond
the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
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Reuters - The head of one of Venice's most
prestigious museums apologized on Wednesday to a Muslim woman
asked to leave the building by a guard because she was wearing
a veil over her face.
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Reuters - An Australian school which
recently banned its students from doing cartwheels, somersaults
and other gymnastics during recess is reviewing the decision
after parents and students got all bent out of shape.
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 Reuters - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope
Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture
portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg
that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.
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 Reuters - Fuelled only by used cooking fat, eight
teams completed a 2,500-mile car rally from London to Athens on
Wednesday in a bid to promote awareness of cheap and
environmentally-friendly bio-fuels.
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Reuters - A row over pesticide-laced Chinese
dumplings has moved a step closer to a settlement after China
told Japan that a factory worker was probably to blame, NHK
public television said on Saturday.
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 Reuters - Dog lovers beware.
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 Reuters - The Vatican has warned journalists
who will travel with Pope Benedict to Lourdes next month not to
put the revered water from the shrine in their hand luggage on
the papal plane or it may be confiscated.
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AP - A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse.
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 Reuters - The price of rat meat has quadrupled
in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond
the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
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AP - This one-horse town is looking like becoming a no-horse town.
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Reuters - The Tower of Pisa is being
challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the
northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe's most steeply leaning
tower.
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 AP - If only Goldilocks had a cockapoo.
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