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A German cannibal was convicted of manslaughter but not murder for killing and eating a man who had asked to die, and he was sentenced to eight and a half years in jail.
Manchester is Britain's fattest city, a survey for "Men's Health" has found, beating Glasgow for the first time since the magazine started examining the issue three years ago.
A 35-year-old Briton, high on his own supply, smuggled 9,000 ecstasy tablets past eight customs officials in Thailand before being stopped on the street the next day and arrested for not wearing a shirt.
Natural gas stopped flowing to the small Canadian town of Stonewall, Manitoba, overnight, leaving 1,500 residences and businesses without heat as the wind chill hit a bone-numbing -52°C.
A civilian employee at the Nassau County jail could find himself behind bars after being charged with stealing more than $13,000 worth of underwear intended for indigent inmates.
New coins introduced by Vietnam's Central Bank are being gobbled up — not by collectors, but rather by children who swallow them after mistaking them for sweets.
A musician left his $3 million violin on an Amtrak train, but a quick-acting baggage handler retrieved the instrument and it was returned to its grateful owner.
A game of darts or a packet of peanuts are what most British pubs sell customers to go with their beer, but one landlord is offering them something rather more lasting — a final resting place.
