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Vicki Mohler awoke to the sound of breaking glass. She leaped out of bed and confirmed her two children were safe in their rooms, but she heard footsteps.
Sanitation officers in Guangzhou had to haul off 20 tons of garbage collected by an elderly woman after neighbours got fed up with the stench wafting from her home.
Homer's ancient Greek poem "The Iliad," the basis for Hollywood blockbuster "Troy," has been compressed for a new generation too lazy to see the film, let alone read the 24-book epic that runs to over 15,000 lines.
An Argentine bus driver must watch surgery being performed on a traffic accident victim as part of his punishment for striking and killing an 11-year-old boy.
Along with the usual highway litter, bottles of urine are routinely discarded at the truckers' brake test area at Parleys Summit on Interstate 80 in Utah.
A German historian said a distant relative of Adolf Hitler could sue the state of Bavaria for royalties from the Nazi dictator's book "Mein Kampf," but the retired Austrian engineer said he wants no part of it.
Before teeing off, mind the bombed out barracks to your left. Don't aim for the fairway; there isn't one. The greens are actually black; a mixture of sand and oil. The clubhouse is collapsing and has no walls.
Something is raising a stink in Las Vegas. City officials, fearful that the smells emanating from downtown alleys are hampering the area's economic resurgence, have launched an assault on stench.
The Israeli spy agency Mossad emerged from the shadows when it launched a Web site to attract recruits for "special tasks" — as well as intelligence analysts, waiters and drivers.
Since the National Do Not Call Registry went into effect, the nearly 60 million Americans who have signed up have found dramatic relief from telephone solicitations. But some companies are trying to skirt the registry rules by claiming that the rules don't apply to them.