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North Korean leader 'bans long hair for men'RIA Novosti 21.10.2008 | 106-year-old voter chooses ObamaDavid Willey BBC News 13.10.2008 |
 North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ordered all long-haired men in the country to get haircuts, after becoming enraged at students' hairdos at a recent soccer match, Japan's Mainichi Daily News reported on Monday. |  A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election. |
Local Business Gives Tattoos For Breast Cancer DonationsChannel 3000 13.10.2008 | Putin’s Tips for What to Do When Negotiations CollapseMICHAEL SCHWIRTZ The New York Times 09.10.2008 |
 MADISON, Wis. -- To honor October's status as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, one local business is putting a creative spin on raising money for a cure. Michele Thierfelder, the owner of Accents-Tattoos By Michelle in Madison, is giving free tattoos to clients who donate anywhere from 50 dollars on up for breast cancer research. |  MOSCOW — Just weeks after Russia’s state-run media reported that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin had saved a news crew from a wild tiger, he is flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video. |
"Drunk" Russia soldiers return for Georgia pullbackMargarita Antidze, Matt Robinson, Matthew Jones Reuters 08.10.2008 | Book Offers Novel Approach to Weight LossRandy Dotinga The Washington Post 06.10.2008 |
 KARALETI, Georgia (Reuters) - Two Russian soldiers almost missed their unit's withdrawal from Georgia on Wednesday after spending the night sobering up in a police cell, Georgian police said. |  Could a novel with an embedded message about good health help overweight girls develop the motivation to lose a few pounds? New research suggests that it just might, but the results weren't dramatic. |
Teen's mum drives him to drug dealDylan Welch The Sydney Morning Herald 02.10.2008 | Female body is more attractive in winterHealthJockey.com 01.10.2008 |
 A 19-year-old arrested for trying to offload 1000 ecstasy pills while undercover police watched won't have to ring his mum to bail him out of jail - she drove him to the drug deal. |  Well who doesn’t indulge in some bird watching? Especially when the weather is cold and harsh outside. Though hard to believe, a novel research now proves that the female body is more attractive in winter. |
Father leaves nine children at Nebraska hospitalChicago Tribune 28.09.2008 | |
 MELBOURNE (AFP) — An Australian woman is blind three days out of every six because her eyes involuntarily shut and she can't open them -- a mysterious medical condition that has puzzled doctors, a report said Sunday. |  Parents are abandoning teenagers at Nebraska hospitals, in a case of a well intentioned law inspiring unintended results. Over the last two weeks, moms or dads have dropped off seven teens at hospitals in the Cornhusker state, indicating they didn’t want to care for them any more. |
Xinhua Runs Spacewalk Story Before Astronauts Leave EarthSumner Lemon PC World 26.09.2008 | Grisly find: dog brings child's foot to Ala. homeAP 23.09.2008 |
 China's official Xinhua News Agency ran a story on Thursday announcing ground controllers were tracking Chinese astronauts sent aloft for the country's first spacewalk, complete with details and quotes from the astronauts. There was just one problem: the astronauts had yet to blast off for the spacewalk, which is scheduled for the early hours of Saturday morning, Beijing time. |  RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Police say a dog in northwest Alabama dug up a child's severed foot — and an investigation is under way to find the child. Chris Hargett, the police chief of Russelville, Ala., said Monday that his officers got a weekend call from an area resident who says the foot was dragged up by a dog. |
Firefighter Gives Mouth-To-MeowthSky News 11.09.2008 | Airline seeks bald men as walking billboardsSeattle Post-Intelligencer 10.09.2008 |
 Firefighters are used to fetching stranded cats out of high trees, but one rescue worker in America went a little further by giving a moggy the kiss of life. |  WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's national airline is offering to pay bald travelers to use their heads - literally - in a new advertising campaign. |
Woman called Yoda blocked from FacebookMatthew Moore Telegraph 29.08.2008 | |
 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Two brothers who ran a funeral home and crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones. |  Hiroko Yoda says she made several attempts to sign up to the popular social networking site but her applications were always met with an error message. The Japanese author suspected that her distinctive surname – which she shares with the wise, green Jedi Master of the Star Wars film series – may be at the root of her problem. |
Bloomberg Accidentally Publishes Steve Jobs ObituaryRyan Tate Gawker.com 29.08.2008 | Woman wearing veil told to leave Italian museumPhilip Pullella Reuters 28.08.2008 |
 The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process. Some investors were undoubtedly rattled to see, as our tipster did late this afternoon, the Apple CEO's obit cross the wire and then suddenly disappear. |  ROME (Reuters) - The head of one of Venice's most prestigious museums apologized on Wednesday to a Muslim woman asked to leave the building by a guard because she was wearing a veil over her face. |
Cat survives being walled in under bath for 7 weeksReuters 28.08.2008 | |
 BERLIN (Reuters) - A four-year-old cat in Germany called Bonny has survived after being walled in beneath a bathtub for seven weeks, its owner said Tuesday. | |
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