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  • Rental pets and robots in "Blade Runner" Tokyo

    2009-09-30 09:18

    Only in Tokyo could you hire a cat out for an hour and stroke it while you have a cappuccino -- or better still, while a robot cooks your noodles for you.

  • A mai tai with the Mai Mai?

    2009-09-30 08:53

    Congo's army has suspended an officer accused of drinking with the enemy ahead of a militia attack that the United Nations said left six soldiers dead, a top army commander said Tuesday.

  • World known species rises to 1.9 million, report says

    2009-09-29 16:35

    The world's only catalog of known plants and animals has listed 1.9 million species globally, a rise of 114,000 on a study done three years ago, Australian researchers said Tuesday.

  • Fighting with food

    2009-09-29 15:21

    Find a reasonable excuse to waste the food? Let's fight with food for fun.

  • Brown fan 'was stuck in chair all night'

    2009-09-29 11:27

    A fan of TV illusionist Derren Brown has claimed that he was left immobilised for 12 hours after watching one of his recent shows.

  • German minister-to-be rebuffs question in English

    2009-09-29 08:46

    Guido Westerwelle, who is widely expected to become foreign minister in the next German government, admonished a reporter who asked him a question in English on Monday, saying: "We're in Germany here."

  • Military may lift ban on women in submarines

    2009-09-29 08:46

    Top Pentagon officials are calling for an end to the U.S. military's historical ban on allowing women to serve in submarines.

  • Man marries four women simultaneously

    2009-09-28 14:25

    A man in South Africa has married four brides at the same time.

  • Iraqis make most of violence lull to wed in style

    2009-09-28 11:26

    Iraq has seen a surge in lavish weddings during what has been the country's most festive and peaceful Muslim holiday in years, with party goers shrugging off security worries and dancing late into the night.

  • Pressures mount as binge-drinking hits Italy

    2009-09-28 11:26

    Gone midnight on the last Saturday in summer and the young people in the square drinking cocktails and beer slur as they chant: "Happy birthday, son of a b---h..."

  • Men attacked after being mistaken for thieves

    2009-09-28 10:37

    Three men who went to meet a woman at the Xi'an railway station were beaten after the woman mistook them for thieves.

  • August, September is divorce season

    2009-09-28 10:30

    More than 190 couples in Zhongyuan district of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, got divorced in August, 54 more than the previous month.

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