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A sweeping ban on beer advertising has become law in Russia in a move aimed at curbing Russians' vast alcohol intake and changing attitudes to a beverage which the country officially terms a soft drink.
Pigeon fanciers in Britain, tired of having their prize racing birds snatched away by predators, have a plan to save them — make them taste too nasty for other birds to eat.
South African authorities will bury a 77-year-old man who has been dead seven weeks despite his family saying a "prophet" had promised them he would be resurrected.
It seemed like an invasion of Biblical proportions in the Italian town of Matera, the outdoor setting for Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ".
Tinka's Boy had one last bit of business to get out of the way before he and his rider Markus Fuchs tackled their first hurdle at the Olympic show jumping — producing a steaming heap of dung.
The family of a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy who died 36 years ago kept his body in their home after a fortune teller told relatives they had buried the teenager alive by mistake.
He had to change tires 11 times and once fell to the ground and spent the night in a ditch, but 65-year-old Russian Vladimir Ksenchak rolled undaunted into Madrid at the end of a 3,000-mile wheelchair trip.
A 69-year-old German vet has been arrested for attempted murder after stabbing a dentist from a neighboring practice in a heated argument over patient car parking places.
A Malaysian woman who's trying to reclaim a world record by living in a locked glass box with more than 6,000 scorpions has been stung once, is suffering a fever and scarcely sleeps because the creatures keep crawling over her.
An Indian man charged over the train torching that triggered Gujarat's Hindu-Muslim bloodshed has asked for bail so he can go home to have sex with his wife.
A British children's hospital which owns the rights to the story of Tinkerbell, Tiger Lily and the evil Captain Hook is searching for an author to write a sequel, to keep the money flowing when the copyright to the evergreen classic runs out.
A Chinese historian says he has evidence that ruthless conqueror and master of the Mongol horde Genghis Khan was as masterful with the pen as he was with the sword.
The state of Illinois has sued the Dave Matthews Band for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of liquid human waste from a bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers.
Love could not conquer all for a rare, 10-year-old Komodo Dragon who plunged to her death at London Zoo after she scaled a dividing wall to reach her mate.
Pittsburgh Brewing Co., maker of Iron City Beer, has partnered with Alcoa Inc., the world's largest aluminum maker, to produce aluminum bottles that keep beer colder for as much as 50 minutes longer than a glass bottle.
If not for poor-quality tattoos on the ankles of some contestants, lack of air conditioning and the presence of uniformed female guards around the doors, it would seem like a normal beauty pageant.
The administrator of the Crittenden County Jail has been arrested for allegedly agreeing to provide slightly more than 2 ounces of cocaine to an inmate.
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