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Couple in China accused of burying woman alive
Chinese authorities arrested a man and his girlfriend in the death of an elderly woman he knocked down while driving drunk and whose body was later found buried at a construction site. Police say the woman likely was alive when buried.The official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday the couple was intoxicated and returning home from a bar in the eastern city of Cixi on April 30 when the man ran o
World News May 24, 2012
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Elephant and pig tapped to predict Euro 2012 games
Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant -- or a pig.Poland's answer to Paul the Octopus -- the tentacled tipster who gained worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions -- is Citta the elephant. Ukraine, however, will probably go for an enormous beer-loving pig -- but there are big doubts about whether he can handle the media glare.The parade of supposedly psych
Soccer May 24, 2012
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Ohio man's fossil find in Kentucky stumps experts
(AP photo)Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.The 150-pound fossil recovered last year in northern Kentucky is more than 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. To the untrained eye, it looks like a bunch of rocks or a concrete blob. Experts are trying to determine whether it was an animal, mineral or a form of plant life from a time when the Cincinnati region was und
Technology May 24, 2012
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Woman, 84, trapped in chair for two day
An 84-year-old Swedish woman who fell through the fabric of a chair on her balcony was stuck for two days, friends said.Neighbors in Karlskrona told the Kvallsposten newspaper they became concerned when they noticed the woman's newspaper hadn't been brought inside and the woman failed to show up for church on Sunday, The Local.se reported Wednesday.Friends and neighbors contacted the building's ca
People May 24, 2012
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911 dispatcher falls asleep during emergency call in Maryland
A woman who called 911 after her husband was unable to breathe found a snoring Maryland dispatcher at the other end of the line.The woman called 911 from her Montgomery County home on April 4. According to a recording of the call, she repeatedly says "hello" but gets no reply. A second dispatcher intervenes and gives her first aid advice as the first dispatcher can be heard snoring. The woman's hu
World News May 24, 2012
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Men's death risk rises in extramarital sex
So-called sudden coital death is more common when a man has sex with a mistress outside than when he had sex with his wife, researchers in Italy said.(MCT)Dr. Alessandra Fisher of the University of Florence and colleagues reviewed existing research on the context in which men experience sudden death during or after sex.They found both fatal and non-fatal heart attacks were relatively rare when a m
Technology May 24, 2012
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Hot dogs fall from the sky in Detroit
To celebrate a Detroit restaurant's 95th anniversary, 955 raw hot dogs were dropped from a hovering helicopter onto a soccer field Wednesday morning.The stunt, arranged by WKQI-FM, Detroit, honored the American Coney Island restaurant, whose third-generation owner, Grace Keros, noted the famed eatery has "been at the same location for the past 95 years."The hot dogs, referred to at the restaurant
Food May 24, 2012
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Canada bus killer says he believed the victim was alien
A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in western Canada four years ago thought he was attacking an alien, according to a mental health advocate who interviewed him.Vince Weiguang Li (second from left)In 2009, Vince Li was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness for the death of Tim McLean, a 22-year-old carnival worker who was sittin
People May 23, 2012
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Chinese actress Li Bingbing at Canne festival
Alessandra Fisher Li Bingbing arrives at the 65th Canne international film festival,in southern France on Thursday. (Yonhap News)China's actress and singer attended the 65th Canne international film festival in France on Thursday.
Film May 23, 2012
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Man arrested for climbing Mount Rushmore
A U.S. man was arrested for climbing Mount Rushmore National Memorial in western South Dakota, local newspapers reported.The unnamed climber was arrested about Monday on charges of trespassing and climbing the memorial, Mount Rushmore spokeswoman Maureen McGee-Ballinger said. Park rangers found him directly below the memorial and escorted him down the mountain.McGee-Ballinger said similar incident
More Sports May 23, 2012
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Seoul to curb excessive air conditioning in shops
The Seoul municipal government said Wednesday it will discourage shops from leaving their doors open while the air conditioning is on as part of a campaign to save energy in the hot summer months.Starting Thursday, officials from the city government, the central ward of Junggu, the state-run power monopoly Korea Electric Power Corp., and a civic group will visit shops in the shopping district of M
Social Affairs May 23, 2012
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Chances of nuclear accident put higher
Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed, German researchers say. (MCT)Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that given the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred to date, such disasters may occur once every 10 to 20 years.Tha
Technology May 23, 2012
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'Device' claim causes France-U.S. jet to divert to Maine
A French woman forced a transatlantic flight from Paris to North Carolina to be diverted to Maine on Tuesday after claiming she had a "surgically implanted device."This photo is not directly related to the article (Bloomberg)The U.S. Airways jet with 179 passengers and crew on board landed safely in Bangor, Maine, where the woman was taken into custody by the FBI before the Boeing 767 continued it
World News May 23, 2012
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Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood
A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan _ a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation.The vial being auctioned online was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington, the PFCAuctions house said.Reagan's son Mic
World News May 23, 2012
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Fitch cuts Japan's credit rating, cites huge debt
Fitch cut Japan's credit rating by two notches on Tuesday, citing its "leisurely" efforts at shrinking a massive public debt, as Tokyo struggles to kick-start the world's third-largest economy.The global agency downgraded Japan's long-term foreign currency rating to "A+" from "AA", with a negative outlook, noting "growing risks for Japan's sovereign credit profile as a result of high and rising pu
World Business May 23, 2012
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