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  • Beijing Briefing

    2009-09-16 09:14

    Cash-strapped tourists visiting the Olympic Park site have urged authorities to set up ATM machines in the area.

  • City advertises porn on website by accident

    2009-09-16 09:02

    Authorities in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen accidentally advertised porn among the services on offer for residents on its website.

  • Animals, they're just like us

    2009-09-16 08:45

    Just look at how these naughty animals dress and delight themselves in our ways.

  • 107-year-old to marry for 23rd time

    2009-09-15 14:49

    A 107-year-old woman from Malaysia is reportedly planning to marry for the 23rd time because she fears that her current husband may leave her for a younger woman.

  • Annoyed passenger 'drives bus home'

    2009-09-15 14:44

    A passenger in China drove her bus home after becoming annoyed by the driver's late start to his shift, it has been claimed.

  • 3-year-old gets stuck in washing machine

    2009-09-15 10:38

    A 3-year-old boy was stuck inside a washing machine at his home in Tianjin municipality for almost half an hour till firefighters arrived on the scene.

  • Scared of rats, women phone firefighters for help

    2009-09-15 10:37

    Two 23-year-old women in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, phoned up the city fire brigade on Sunday asking them to take away a rat caught in a mousetrap they had set up the previous night.

  • Free massages, merchandise -- for female models only

    2009-09-15 10:03

    A lounge in New York City is offering free massages, free food and free merchandise -- for female fashion models only.

  • Know thy enemy? Author pens guide to surviving the office

    2009-09-15 09:36

    If your office feels like a warzone some days, a book identifying all those colleagues and bosses you've been tempted to battle should help you survive.

  • Crisis? What crisis? asks Paris nude revue

    2009-09-15 09:35

    Stock market fluctuations and share price curves may cause hearts to flutter, but rarely do they inspire people to strip all their clothes off.

  • Welcome to Lehman Brothers, you're fired!

    2009-09-15 09:21

    French maths and computer science graduate Edouard d'Archimbaud thought he was about to start a lucrative and challenging career in finance when he walked through the doors of Lehman Brothers' London offices a year ago.

  • Kids send Marcus the lamb to slaughter

    2009-09-15 09:04

    A group of schoolchildren who reared a lamb from birth and named it Marcus has overridden objections by parents and rights activists and voted to send the animal to slaughter.

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