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SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (Reuters) - The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years after his death.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Tests of the bones of two Viking women found in a buried longboat have dispelled 100-year-old suspicions that one was a maid sacrificed to accompany her queen into the afterlife, experts said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Found: drinking companions to join elderly gentleman for a friendly beer at his local pub.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The leader of a notorious gang of armed robbers in the Philippines, re-arrested by police after months on the run, escaped again on Friday in a scene straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Three Hong Kong anglers thought they had hit the big time when they sold their rare giant fish for HK$20,000 ($2,560) — but they missed out on a HK$1 million bonanza, a newspaper reported on Friday.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan’s cabinet will soon lose one of its more colorful members who was notorious for sleeping in parliament, shouting at legislators, picking his nose in public and shoving a journalist.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A grizzly bear featured in the recent Will Ferrell film “Semi-Pro” and touted as one of the “best trained” in show business has killed its handler, but officials said on Wednesday they were puzzled by what provoked the attack.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Senate lawmakers in Florida have voted to ban the fake bull testicles that dangle from the trailer hitches of many trucks and cars throughout the state.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A stuntman was seriously injured in an accident on the Italian set of the latest James Bond movie, the production company said.
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala is investigating radio advertisements seeking elite ex-soldiers, who have been known to work for drug cartels, to smuggle goods into Mexico, officials said on Thursday.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man who shot and wounded a police officer more than 41 years ago will stand trial for his murder following the officer’s death last year, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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LIMA (Reuters) - “Bad Luck,” “Free Like the Wind,” and “Waltz of the Prisoner” were top crowd pleasers as convicts faced off at a prison in Lima to sing in the Peruvian underworld’s version of the popular TV show “American Idol.”
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - It is billed as the best pop culture collection ever assembled — ranging from the gun used to kill the assassin of President John F. Kennedy to the Wicked Witch of the West’s hat from “The Wizard of Oz.”
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ROME (Reuters) - Italians are used to buying bogus Gucci bags or Rolex watches to look stylish but police found a new height of craftsmanship and cunning when they broke up a ring selling fake Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real price.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jack the Ripper is about to return to the part of London he made his own private killing ground in one of history’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
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BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz rights activists will offer a prize of up to $1,000 in a contest for the ‘best song’ to protest against the presence of U.S. troops in the Central Asian republic, the event’s organizer said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A 44-year-old mother of two has become Japan’s oldest professional boxer after passing the Japanese board’s license test.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - An elderly German who hid a stolen suit under his clothes was caught because he forgot to take it off the hanger, police said Wednesday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two armed thieves picked the wrong night to rob a Sydney club, disturbing a meeting of 50 motorcycle bikers, who tackled and hog-tied one of the thieves until police arrived.
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AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Police dogs in the German city of Duesseldorf are being fitted out with blue rubber shoes to protect their paws while walking the beat.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Jewish settler’s query about the weather has raised a small storm in Israel around the charged issues of land and identity.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British man celebrated his 60th birthday in unexpected style at the weekend when a 50 pence ($1) bet on the horses turned him into an instant millionaire.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican brides and grooms who get cold feet before walking down the aisle will have to pay their significant other for the inconvenience, if a proposal by a local congressman is adopted.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese maker of famed stuffed buns whose Chinese name means “A dog would ignore it” has cleaned up its English-language to avoid confusion, but may be risking more puzzled looks.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian professional soccer player who attended a club celebration dressed as Adolf Hitler will be disciplined after Jewish groups complained, officials said Tuesday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A program launched in China to teach traditional Peking opera in schools has drawn criticism from some Internet users who said untrained teachers and forced instruction might put off students from the 200-year-old art.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man was arrested for trespassing this week after turning up at a high school dressed in a girl’s uniform and a long wig, local police said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six people have been killed in three days by icicles falling from buildings in a central Russian region, ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Buddhist monk from Japan was killed after slipping and falling under the blades of his runaway tractor lawnmower, an inquest into his death has found.
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SANXENXO, Pontevedra (Reuters) - “Today it’s my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog.”
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man who kidnapped and raped a woman blamed his actions on a spider, local media reported on Thursday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German sausage, a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 years old.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s battle against fake and substandard drugs has taken an unusual twist with the discovery of a Web site masquerading as that of the country’s food and drug watchdog.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Law Lords are due to decide next week whether an elderly victim can sue a rapist who went on to win millions of pounds on the lottery.
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LYON (Reuters) - Olympique Lyon’s Czech forward Milan Baros was caught speeding at 168 miles per hour in his Ferrari, a club source confirmed Friday.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Twenty Chinese men, including several on the country’s richest list, paid $8,000 a head to attend a matchmaking party with 30 “single young beauties,” state media said Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A mother cremated a body she thought was that of her dead son, only for him to turn up alive later, police said on Friday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German retiree secretly cut down or shortened 122 trees in a publicly owned forest to give his holiday cottage a clear view of the Baltic Sea, police said Thursday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s secretive love hotels are opening up to European investors as one player in the sector prepares for a debut on London’s stock market this month.
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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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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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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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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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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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