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Man torches car battling frost (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:08 +0000

Reuters – A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.

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Dog washed out to sea has lucky escape (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:08 +0000

Reuters – A dog had a lucky escape when a Polish boat rescued him from an ice floe that had carried him more than 100 miles up a river and out onto the icy waters of the Baltic Sea.

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Leader slaughters goats to ward off evil? (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:08 +0000

Reuters – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off “evil eyes” and protect him from “black magic,” a newspaper reported Wednesday.

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Church offers for a prayer for wedding day nerves (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:08 +0000

Reuters – The Church of England is offering to pray for lovestruck couples to help ease any jitters ahead of their wedding day.

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Draft law to jail dog eaters whets debate (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:08 +0000

Reuters – A proposal to jail people who eat dog meat for up 15 days has caused controversy in China, where dog hot pot is traditionally popular.

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Mobsters buck downturn, may target bourse (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:08 +0000

Reuters – Italy’s mafia crime syndicates bucked the recession in 2009 to raise ‘profits’ by almost 8 percent with the financial crisis making companies and even the stock market even more vulnerable to cash-flush mobsters.

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Peruvian doctors amputate wrong leg, then right one (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:07 +0000

Reuters – Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realized their mistake.

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Cypriot police charge mum after boy racer car chase (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:07 +0000

Reuters – Cypriot police who pursued a car speeding at more than twice the legal limit were surprised to discover they really were chasing a “boy racer.”

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Italian teen stabs father in PlayStation row (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:07 +0000

Reuters – An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said.

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Human "bed-warmers" at Holiday Inn (Reuters)

xflamez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:07 +0000

Reuters – International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month.

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