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Ageing Santa gets $100,000 facelift for Christmas
Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 11:04 AM
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.
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Rare Charles Darwin book in toilet in Britain
AFP - Sun Nov 22, 5:32 PM
LONDON (AFP) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal "On the Origin of Species" will be sold this week after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said Sunday.
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Yellow card for goalkeeper after cat rescue
AFP - Mon Nov 23, 8:37 AM
ZAGREB (AFP) - The Croatian first division match between Sibenik and Medjimurje Cakovec will be remembered for a cat which earned the visiting team's goalkeeper a yellow card, press reports said on Monday.
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Maybe she should have ducked: Chef Paula Deen hit in the face by a ham
The Canadian Press - Tue Nov 24, 12:49 PM
ATLANTA - Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham - across her face.
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Chinese migrants change names to be 'more Hong Kong'
AFP - Mon Nov 23, 2:47 AM
HONG KONG (AFP) - An increasing number of mainland Chinese migrants to Hong Kong are changing the spelling of their surnames to avoid discrimination in the former British colony, a report said Monday.
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Obama mistakenly leaves human rights event early, returns to his seat with laughter
The Canadian Press - Mon Nov 23, 8:59 PM
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is getting used to leaving events before they end, even when he does not have to.
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Rogue kangaroo tries to drown dog
AFP - Mon Nov 23, 2:40 AM
MELBOURNE (AFP) - A rogue kangaroo tried to drown a dog and then viciously attacked its owner when he launched a rescue bid, paramedics said on Monday.
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Women run in style in Paris stiletto race
AFP - Sat Nov 21, 11:15 AM
PARIS (AFP) - Dozens of shoe addicts have taken part in the National Stiletto Championship on an indoor track in the old stock exchange building in central Paris.
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Unique forest landscape by Tom Thomson sells for $973,000
The Canadian Press - Tue Nov 24, 11:38 PM
TORONTO - A forest landscape by Tom Thomson with notations on the back went for nearly a million dollars at auction in Toronto on Tuesday.
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