LONDON (Reuters) - A teen-ager was airlifted to hospital and his father had his nose broken when gatecrashers went on the rampage at a 16th birthday party after details were posted on YouTube, police and media reports said Friday.
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Faithful readers of this blog know we sometimes give seemingly impossible assignments to our photographers, and they always come through. Who could forget Martha Stewart and the singing camel, or Civil War widows and motorcycles? This week, we outdid ourselves: Go find seven guys with plungers on their backs, and one dude who seems [...]
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Okay, this career question came up a month ago with Holler if you see a flame, Bernie! and I’m starting to worry that it may be a trend.I know for you young grads looking for action, a sexy job title like “Rocket guard who stands behind the tubes where the flames come out” sounds cool. [...]
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Inspired by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Some Beijing motorists are flushed with anger over new license plate numbers that contain the letter combination “WC,” saying it gives them “unpleasant images.”
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican priest briefly ended up behind bars after punching a policemen who caught him driving drunkenly through the streets of the northern city of Monterrey.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is starting to give its 110,000 policemen a makeover, trying to make them more like friendly neighbors than their current hard man image, the new national police chief said Thursday.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world.
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It’s an ill wind that doesn’t fill somebody’s skillet, or however that saying goes. Strong winds in Australia are blowing migrating Bogong moths off-course and into Sydney, and residents are responding by, uh, eating them.One chef cooks the moths, which are high in fat, in butter. A scientist says to limit your intake, because they [...]
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Ladies and gentlemen, is she a sport, or what? In the pageant’s tough competition, this young lady fell for every stale novelty we threw at her! The old soot-covered binoculars, the glow-in-the-dark lipstick, even the really cheesy bald wig!And then, just to show why she deserves this year’s Miss Novelty Shop title more than anyone, check [...]
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MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A French explorer unveiled plans on Friday to fly over the Arctic in an airship to measure the ice cap amid concern at the pace it is melting.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - An elderly Turkish man was arrested in Austria on suspicion of shooting dead another Turk and cutting off his penis because he believed the victim was having an affair with his wife, police said Thursday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Russian capsule carrying a new crew for the International Space Station and Malaysia’s first astronaut slipped into a berthing port at the orbital outpost on Friday as the space ships sailed 220 miles
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MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. authorities filed murder charges on Wednesday against two men found floating in a life raft near Cuba in the killings of four fishing boat crewmembers in a case of murder and piracy on the high seas.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a sub-species experts had feared was extinct in the wild, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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Hey, Blog Guy - You seem to follow high fashion on a regular basis. I’ve noticed that sometimes you openly abuse the new designs, while other times you compliment them, but you’re really just being sarcastic. That’s quite a range of opinions. Anyway, can you share the worst of the worst? The stuff that gives [...]
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Overweight local government officials in Japan have slimmed down with a three-month “samurai” diet, soldiering on despite a fellow samurai’s death.
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Well, this is just so sad. It turns out cats are getting addicted to Facebook just as people are, according to a new study.This photo, taken yesterday in New York City, shows a typical felineface.com user, wasting her days reading major garbage like “Places I’ve Napped,” “Cleo has sent you a hairball,” and “Tux and [...]
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LONDON (Reuters) - One microscopic organism has thrived despite remaining celibate for tens of millions of years thanks to a neat evolutionary trick, researchers said.
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I look at these fashion photos, and I’d like to think somebody is shooting that prequel to Snakes on a Plane, the long-rumored Snakes on a Runway.But sadly, I know better. Truth is, the cultural gulch between fashion designers and regular people is now so wide that somebody on the other side thinks there is [...]
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Okay, Leonardo, what are you trying to pull now? I’ve seen the painting, read the book, and read some of the original book as well, and I know there isn’t some guy in a suit and tie slinking around The Last Supper behind the disciples, reaching down like he’s about to snatch a necklace from [...]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The winning of the Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel on Friday should give a push to alternative energy technologies that are already enjoying their best year ever, experts said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - An 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull has been found in southwestern Japan, one of the oldest discoveries of its kind in the country, the Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.
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Last Friday, in a posting called When vogue goes rogue, I reviewed some of my least favorite fashion designs for women, going back however many months I’ve been paying attention.The posting was very popular, and this week I’m doing the same thing with really awful men’s fashions. Here goes:Dude! is there ANYTHING you wouldn’t [...]
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In a grotesque haute couture mishap, a frenzied swarm of butterflies attacked a fashion model during a show in Paris. Police believe the model had used butterfly food instead of hairspray, and horror ensued.The model was rescued by security guards using standard anti-butterfly tactics, but not before hundreds of teensy fang marks were left on her face.Of course, since the model was wearing a creation by designer Alexander McQueen, the [...]
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have worked out the first complete map of the Chinese genome and are now turning their attention to a national treasure — the giant panda, a Beijing newspaper reported on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) — An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The daily weather forecast on Saturn’s largest moon Titan appears to be a steady drizzle of liquid methane, at least around the bright, exotically named region known as Xanadu, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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