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Fancy a fish with 6-pack abs (18 March 04:11) |
| Mar 17 - Scientists have created a transgenic trout with muscles your average body builder would die for. But this guy is more than just pretty - his creator says the buff fish could be big ... |
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Eat dirt Indonesian-style (17 March 11:27) |
| Mar. 17 - Dirt is turned into tasty snacks of the soil in Indonesia's East Java province.
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Dog worth her weight in diamonds (17 March 12:17) |
| Mar 16 - A golden retriever swallows a $20,000 diamond - with the unlucky owner having to wait three days for the dog to "produce" the 3 carat stone.
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New travel agency for teddy bears (15 March 09:37) |
| Mar 15 - A Czech entrepreneur has opened a travel agency offering city breaks for cuddly toys.
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Chess boxing a big hit in London (15 March 05:07) |
| Mar 15 - A Dutch artist has created a new sport combining the intellectual finesse of chess with a good old-fashioned punch up.
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White Day Valentines reply in Japan (14 March 10:22) |
| Mar 14. - One month after receiving gifts from women on Valentine's Day, Japanese men return the favour on White Day.
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A spellbinding Egyptian discovery (13 March 11:52) |
| Mar. 13 - Archaeologists in Egypt have found what they believe are hieroglyphic funeral spells guiding a mysterious 4,000-year-old queen in the afterlife.
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Chef makes mommys milk cheese (11 March 10:42) |
| Mar 10 - New York chef makes cheese from his wife's breast milk. Sharon Reich reports.
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Bottled ghosts sold in New Zealand (10 March 09:42) |
| Mar 10 - A New Zealand woman sells two "spirits in a bottle" amid a bidding frenzy in an online auction.
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Fireworks honour Mexican saint (10 March 04:17) |
| Mar 09 - Tultepec, a town near Mexico City, stages a spectacular fireworks display to honour the patron saint of pyrotechnicians, San Juan de Dios. tara Cleary reports.
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Women served up sushi treat (09 March 05:57) |
| Mar. 9 - A restaurant in Poland serves up a treat on Women's Day -- sushi served on a male model.
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Competitive shearing reaches Alps (08 March 10:52) |
| Mar. 8 - Alpine farmers bring in speed sheepshearing as a tourist draw.
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Worlds thinnest ceramic bowls (08 March 05:07) |
| Mar 8. - After a decade of experiment and trial, a Taiwanese potter develops a technique he says creates the world's finest porcelain.
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France rocks to 69-year-old DJ (06 March 12:57) |
| Mar 5 - A glam granny is filling the dancefloors of some of the most prestigious clubs in France with her techno mash-ups.
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Strongest teeth in Africa (05 March 03:07) |
| March 4 - Nigerian Michael Chukwuma tows cars, lifts hundreds of pounds- all with his teeth. Manoush Zomorodi reports.
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Sydney-siders bare all for art (01 March 11:37) |
| Mar 1 - 5200 naked people gather on the steps of Sydney's Opera House for an art installation by photographer Spencer Tunick.
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Panda pigs out on meat feast (28 February 04:27) |
| Feb. 28 - A hungry panda helps himself to scraps of meat after breaking into a villager's pig pen in China in search of food.
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Japan temple flushes away troubles (26 February 03:27) |
| Feb. 26 - Tired of bad relationships or even extra weight, Japanese are trying a divine remedy for what ails them -- flushing it away.
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Ghanas Snow Leopard set for slopes (26 February 02:31) |
| Feb 25 - Despite learning to ski just six years ago, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong is determined to put his country on the map at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Julie Gordon reports.... |
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New trachea grown in arm (25 February 10:07) |
| Feb 25 - A Belgian woman has a new lease on life after a breakthrough transplant surgery gave her a new windpipe, which was grown in her own arm. Julie Gordon reports.
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Taiwans ninja night out (19 February 02:42) |
| Feb 19 - Ninja-themed restaurant in Taiwan gives customers a mysterious dining experience.
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Shoedunnit A sole mystery in Seoul (19 February 06:27) |
| Feb 19 - South Korean police uncover Aladdin's cave of designer shoes, suspected to be stolen by a second hand shoe shop owner.
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Camel cuisine on the menu in Dubai (18 February 11:37) |
| Feb 18 - The animal known as the ship of the desert can end up as dessert in the Gulf emirate, as a long-established restaurant serves up a new selection of camel meat dishes. Karen Selby re... |
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Tiny home gets big makeover (18 February 02:02) |
| Feb 17 - An award-winning Hong Kong architect has managed to squeeze 24 rooms - including a home cinema and "spa" - into 344 square feet of apartment space. Rob Muir reports.
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Tic toc goes the bacteria clock (17 February 09:50) |
| Feb 17 - Blinking bacteria cells glow as the world's first genetic clock. Julie Gordon reports.
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Pelican attacks weather man (17 February 08:07) |
| Feb 17 - A Sydney weather man for an Australia TV station is attacked by a pelican while trying to present his live segment from a zoo.
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Genome brings extinct man to life (12 February 08:09) |
| Feb 12 - Scientists in Denmark have reconstructed the nuclear genome of an extinct human being, shinning new light on extinct cultures, heredity and disease. Julie Gordon reports.
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Underwater cycling You can here (10 February 09:37) |
| Feb 10 - British sports fans create new hobby - underwater cycling
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A 5-star hotel that flies (10 February 06:29) |
| Feb 10 - An flying cruise ship that is as comfortable as a 5-star hotel could herald a new era in luxury travel - where the super-rich cruise around the world in giant airships powered by na... |
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Watch out escaped tiger of sorts (10 February 06:07) |
| Feb 10 - Tokyo's Ueno zoo conducts its bi-annual drill to train the zookeepers for contingencies of escaped tiger - using a person dressed up in a tiger outfit.
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UKs suburban Crocodile Dundee (03 February 11:02) |
| Feb 3 - Behind the net curtains of a suburban house, a caiman, an iguana and an Asian monitor lizard make for unusual bedfellows.
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Tough guys test their mettle (01 February 10:22) |
| Feb 1 - Around 5,000 competitors brave bitingly cold conditions to take part in a perilous test of their endurance, the Tough Guy race, in South Staffordshire, England.
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Artist creates micro tiger sculpture (18 January 11:25) |
| Taiwanese artist, Chen Forng Shean, claims to have sculpted the world's smallest tiger - appoximately one-tenth the size of a grain of rice.
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Japanese endure New Year ice bath (09 January 05:15) |
| Jan. 9 - Japanese hope to purify their souls and sharpen their minds with ice baths in the New Year.
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South Korean kids feel the burn (06 January 08:26) |
| Jan 6 - South Korean students - some not yet teenagers - brave the winter cold at a marine-style boot camp designed to toughen them up.
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Runaway pig causes expressway chaos (05 January 09:16) |
| Jan 4 - Highway police stop traffic in central Taiwan as a runaway pig darts in and out of oncoming traffic in a desperate bid for freedom.
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Locals punch it out in Peru (29 December 03:01) |
| Dec 28 - Men, women and children face-off in bare-knuckle brawls in Cuzco as part of an annual tradition to clear personal grievances ahead of the New Year.
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Schnitzel fit for a king (22 December 06:21) |
| Dec 22 - The humble schnitzel gets a makeover. A fast food restaurant in Duesseldorf is selling golden schnitzels coated in truffles and goldleaf for a mere 150 euros.
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Orangutan becomes Facebook sensation (19 December 09:41) |
| Dec. 19 - Vienna's Schoenbrunn Tiergarten might be the oldest zoo in the world and feature opulent baroque buildings and 18th century architecture, but it has also a decidedly high-tech side... |
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Man marries video game character (17 December 05:08) |
| Dec 17 - Man marries the love of his life, his favorite video game character.
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Toilet humour big for Beijing diner (16 December 05:08) |
| Dec 16 - Beijing's toilet restaurant aims to amuse customers' senses and provide a new dining experience.
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Indias mass shaving record attempt (15 December 09:03) |
| DEc 15 - Around 2,000 men participate in a mass shaving event in India's western Mumbai city in an effort to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Russian missile or UFO (10 December 07:58) |
| Dec 10 - Norwegian space scientists have suggested a strange light seen over a military base in Norway may have been a failed Russian missile rather than a UFO.
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Polanski photo sells at auction (09 December 04:20) |
| Dec. 8 - The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Polanski photo sells at auction, Elton John to support orphan, and Leslie Caron gets star on Walk of Fame.
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A case of cops turned robbers (08 December 10:10) |
| Dec 8 - Closed-circuit television captures the moment French media say two Parisian police officers conducted a store robbery.
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Tasteless food fair in Paris (01 December 10:15) |
| Dec 1 - Forget haute cuisine - a new food craze is hitting the streets of Paris using "improper" ingredients like raw horse meat and rotten cheese.
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Horse meat goes haute cuisine (01 December 10:15) |
| Dec 1 - Forget haute cuisine - a new food craze is hitting the streets of Paris using "improper" ingredients like raw horse meat and rotten cheese.
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Obama-saved turkey does Disneyland (27 November 06:55) |
| Nov 27 - "Courage", the turkey given a presidential pardon this week by U.S. President Barack Obama, is flown to its new home and given a celebratory reception at Disneyland, California.
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Stolen puppies give the game away (18 November 09:40) |
| Nov 18 - Thieves who carried out a pet shop heist in Australia were given away by their haul - 17 squealing puppies who were then rescued by police.
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Thief gets trapped drops trousers (17 November 11:35) |
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Nov 17 - A thief gets himself stuck in a tiny window while trying to break into a supermarket in Almancil, southern Portugal.
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