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  • Women "tried to smuggle corpse onto plane"

    2010-04-06 20:57

    Two women were arrested at a British airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight bound for Germany, police said on Tuesday.

  • Pillow Fight Day celebrated worldwide

    2010-04-04 11:32

    A flash mob takes part in a ten minute pillow fight in Lausanne city center, in Switzerland, on April 3, 2010.

  • Unpaid air hostesses strip in protest

    2010-04-02 09:49

    Flight attendants owed up to nine months' wages by a grounded Spanish airline have posed nude for a calendar to draw attention to their plight, one of the cabin crew turned models said on Wednesday.

  • Strawberry? Pineapple? Pineberry!!

    2010-04-01 16:40

    A new kind of fruit surnamed pineberry with a shape of strawberry and a taste of pineapple hit Britain stores Wednesday.

  • Florida jury awards $26.6M to smoker's widow

    2010-03-25 04:33

    A Florida jury on Wednesday ordered R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris to pay $26.6 million to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer, the latest verdict against cigarette makers in the "Engle progeny" lawsuits.

  • French sex workers protest legal brothels

    2010-03-25 04:18

    French sex workers are protesting a lawmaker's proposal to legalize brothels in France, saying they want a law that bans active solicitiation repealed instead.

  • Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili

    2010-03-24 09:30

    The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili.

  • 90-year-old US man charged with killing wife, 89

    2010-03-24 06:31

    A 90-year-old man has been charged with killing his 89-year-old wife in their home in a retirement community in western New York in what police will describe only as an apparent domestic dispute.

  • US man executed by electrocution

    2010-03-19 11:41

    A Virginia man has been executed for killing a teen girl and then bragging about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty.

  • A lion cub finds a dog mother

    2010-03-18 22:33

    The newborn cub, which is the only survivor after its mother and her three cubs died during the delivery, was taken by zoo employees to a mongrel dog to feed.

  • Biden mistakenly blesses Irish leader's mother

    2010-03-18 09:31

    Vice President Joe Biden asked for God's blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick's Day - except the elderly lady is very much alive.

  • Airline crew face jail over sexy texts

    2010-03-18 09:04

    Two Emirates airlines cabin crew have been ordered jailed for three months in Dubai over sexually explicit text messages, the latest in a string of indecency cases against foreigners, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

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