95 snakes found in burst bag at Malaysia airport
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2010-09-03T04:23:58Z
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysian man pleaded guilty to wildlife smuggling after his bag bursting with 95 live boa constrictors broke open on a luggage c...
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Finance Ministry says defrauded by staffer
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Reuters - The Dutch Finance Ministry Thursday acknowledged it was defrauded out of more than 160,000 euros ($204,800) earlier this year by an employee of the ministry unit that handles the state's fin...
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Man bites police over a pet peeve
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Reuters - Police arrested an 82-year-old man after he bit and kicked officers who had arrived to mediate in a dispute with a neighbor over a domestic pet.
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Finance Ministry says defrauded by staffer
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Finance Ministry Thursday acknowledged it was defrauded out of more than 160,000 euros ($204,800) earlier this year by an employee of the ministry unit that handles the...
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Man bites police over a pet peeve
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police arrested an 82-year-old man after he bit and kicked officers who had arrived to mediate in a dispute with a neighbor over a domestic pet.
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Iran's first lady of skiing trains on grass
DIZIN, Iran (Reuters) - Skiing down a grassy mountain in the middle of summer is not the only unusual thing about Marjan Kalhor. She is also an Olympic competitor -- a rare thing for a woman in a male...
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Magnetic Mom Attracts Metal and the Media
(Sept. 2) -- Britain's Brenda Allison can hold coins, safety pins and other objects to her head and chest like a human magnet. Amazing as these powers sound, she's not the only one possessing such abi...
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Unicyclists to Roll Over New York City
(Sept. 2) -- In recent years New York City has paved the way for bicyclists to enjoy the roads with newly created bike paths and bike racks around the boroughs. Now, with the first annual NYC Unicycle...
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Man Survives 39-Story Free Fall From NYC Building
(Sept. 1) -- A New York man plunged 39 stories from a Manhattan apartment building and crash-landed on a parked Dodge Charger. The car was totaled, but the man survived.
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Police: NYC Subway Thief Strikes Again, Steals Bus
(Sept. 1) -- After being arrested for the 27th time on charges of taking a mass transit vehicle on a joyride, Darius McCollum wondered if maybe New York City had finally learned its lesson. "I'll bet ...
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Lawsuit: Drunken Deliveryman Lost $1.3M Painting
(Sept. 1) -- An art world lawsuit contends that James Haggerty is guilty of DUI -- delivering under the influence. The art courier is being sued for $1.35 million after he allegedly misplaced a painti...
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TV 'Warm-Up Guys' Have One Odd Job
(Sept. 1) -- The job of an audience "warm-up guy" may not be a well-known profession, but it sure is a weird one. Believe it or not, it's where some of the funniest names in both comedy and showbiz go...
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Remains Found of US Hiker Missing for 21 Years
(Aug. 31) -- Two men hiking in the Canadian Rockies have found the frozen remains of William Holland, an American climber who vanished more than two decades ago.
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Fore? Fire! Golfer's swing sparks blaze in California
Forget "Fore!" "Fire!" was the cry of the day for a golfer whose off-target swing sparked a 12-acre blaze in Southern California. The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in ...
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