Saturday, July 29, 2006

Woman in doghouse over Jehovah's Witness sign (Reuters)



Reuters - A woman has been ordered by police to take down a sign on her garden gate which read "Our dogs are fed on Jehovah's Witnesses."
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Man saves dog thrown from window (Reuters)
Reuters - A man was bruised but alive on Wednesday after a Saint Bernard dog thrown out a two-story window landed on him as he was walking down the street in the southern-Polish city of Sosnowiec.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Woman mails five-foot python (Reuters)


Reuters - A German woman sparked panic at her local post office when a 1.5-meter (5-foot) albino python escaped from a packet she had mailed, police said Tuesday.



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Jobless actor seizes soap opera stage in Brazil (Reuters)
Reuters - A gun-toting Brazilian actor clad only in swimming trunks stormed a television studio and took a hostage during the filming of the "Snakes and Lizards" soap opera where he was once an extra.
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Terrorized Americans fleeing Lebanon (AP)

A family with an American cetizenship rest while waiting to be evacuated out of Lebanon back to their home in America, at the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, Wednesday, July 26, 2006.  (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - A group of Americans huddled at the port Wednesday before boarding the Princesa Marissa to begin their journey home — away from the epicenter of southern Lebanon's war zone.



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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Police detain panda cub fur smuggler (Reuters)


Reuters - Chinese police have detained a man trying to sell the fur of a young panda -- seen as a national treasure in the country -- for about $30,000, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.



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Gerrard sets sights on Premiership title (AFP)

Liverpool football club captain Steven Gerrard models the new Liverpool home shirts for the forthcoming season 24 July 2006 in Liverpool.  Gerrard wants to banish his World Cup blues by leading Liverpool to Premiership glory.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - England midfielder Steven Gerrard wants to banish his World Cup blues by leading Liverpool to Premiership glory.



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Congressman jokes about cocaine on TV (AP)

Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla.,  addresses the Alliance of Delray in this file photo from May 16, 2005, in Delray Beach, Fla., where he laid out his Social Security reform proposal.  Wexler says he was just playing along with the joke when comedian Stephen Colbert prodded him in an interview to say: 'I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do.' The Democrat who is unchallenged for re-election appeared on Colbert's Comedy Central show and was asked to say a few things that would 'really lose the election for you if you were contested.' (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter,File)AP - Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler says he was just playing along with the joke when comedian Stephen Colbert prodded him in an interview to say: "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do."



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