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The makers of the Slip 'N Slide have filed a lawsuit over a scene in the hit movie "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" that shows actor David Spade skidding to a painful halt on the summertime water toy.
A heatwave that hit France this summer could return to haunt the French at Christmas in 2008 because a million newly planted Christmas trees perished in the scorching temperatures.
European Commission has started the hunt for images of rotting lungs and dying cancer patients to be printed on cigarette packets across the European Union.
Sweden's Lund University, one of the oldest seats of learning in Scandinavia, will take a leap into the unknown by appointing northern Europe's first professor of parapsychology, hypnology and clairvoyance.
The German government has asked Italy to investigate whether an Italian wine with labels depicting Nazis Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler violates European Union anti-racism rules.
The old wives' tale holds that people start to look like their pets. Turns out it's the other way around: America's pets are starting to look like Americans — overweight.
The Great Storm, according to the tale, unearthed actor Charles Coghlan’s coffin and washed it out to sea. Eight years later, the legend says, Coghlan’s coffin was found by fishermen near his rented home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, where he was identified by an inscribed metal nameplate on the casket.
It is a mystery that has fascinated Britain for almost 30 years: the disappearance of the dashing Lord Lucan from a bloodstained car near the English coast, days after his children's nanny was bludgeoned to death and his wife beaten with a lead pipe.
