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Some jokers who don't like the Democratic presidential candidate are trying to make his campaign Web site, johnkerry.com, the first answer to a search of the word "waffles" on Google, the No. 1 Internet search engine.
What astronauts said they saw has now spawned a debate in China over what to tell precious minds in the nation's elementary schools over a lovely little legend that, until now, seemed a heartwarming story that built national pride and interest in space.
A British man who sold all his possessions, including his clothes, stood in a rented tuxedo surrounded by family and friends and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.
A four-year-old alligator was stolen from a reptile park north of Sydney, but officials at the zoo said the thieves may have underestimated his moodiness and let him go.
Hurt by export bans after the discovery of brain-wasting diseases in elk and more recently in cattle, Canadian elk farmers have found a new market: they're going to the dogs.
Farmers in and around the Outback town of Cootamundra, 220 miles west of Sydney, claimed a world record for the largest number of tractors to plow a 500-yard stretch simultaneously.
Cell phones have long been virtually unavoidable on city streets and in shopping malls. But they now are showing up in some of the very places people go to get away from it all: national parks.
Compulsive Australian gamblers seeking help from Gamblers Anonymous are being hit with online casino pop-up advertisements when they visit the Web site of the self-help group.
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