Shanghai's signature knock-off market shuts doors (Reuters)
Reuters - Xiangyang Road Fashion and Gift Market, Shanghai's most famous street market for cheap imitation goods, was shutting up shop Friday, the victim of city government plans to redevelop the area.
Source: news.yahoo.comAre flip-flops damaging your career? (Reuters) 
Reuters - With more women wearing flip-flops to the office this summer, U.S. style gurus are warning that the casual shoe once mainly seen on the beach could be damaging to careers -- as well as to feet.
Source: news.yahoo.comEmbezzler busted for posing as Brad Pitt (Reuters) 
Reuters - A salesman tried to fleece a money exchanger in the United Arab Emirates by using an identity card bearing the picture of Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt, a local newspaper reported Thursday.
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'Superhero' tells fans not to imitate stunts (Reuters)
Reuters - Bollywood's new flying superhero has asked fans, especially children, not to imitate his onscreen death-defying stunts after a man leapt off a cinema balcony in central India, breaking his leg.
Source: news.yahoo.comSpirit of Elvis still lives in Japan fans' hearts (Reuters) 
Reuters - The "King" never came to Japan, but Japan's prime minister is making a pilgrimage to Graceland.
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Chewing tobacco in noodles sickens 30 (AP)
AP - Thirty Cambodians suffered food poisoning after eating homemade noodles contaminated with chewing tobacco that had dropped into the batter from the cook's mouth, police said Monday.
Source: news.yahoo.comMiss. woman makes priceless Katrina find (AP) AP - Hurricane Katrina washed away the home and possessions of newlyweds Annie Bazoon-Singleton and Rivers Singleton.
Source: news.yahoo.comMass. lawmaker drops opposition to Fluff (AP) 
AP - A Massachusetts lawmaker is trying to get himself out of a sticky situation by dropping his opposition to Marshmallow Fluff.
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Calif. pelicans held on suspicion of being drunk (Reuters)
Reuters - Four pelicans suspected of being drunk on sea algae were being tested at a Southern California wildlife centre on Saturday after one of them crashed headlong into a car.
Source: news.yahoo.comFan forgets hotel location in six-hour ordeal (Reuters) 
Reuters - German police rescued an American soccer fan lost in Hanover and unable to find his hotel again after helplessly wandering around the city for more than six hours after a match, federal police said Friday.
Source: news.yahoo.comAlgeria forces kill 19 Islamic militants: reports (Reuters) Reuters - Algerian government forces killed 19 Islamist militants in attacks on mountain hideouts of rebels who have rejected an amnesty aimed at ending years of strife, newspapers reported on Monday.
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