India embraces superlatives
Friday, August 31st, 2007India is obsessed with feats that get you into the Guinness World Records book. Here, a Guinness record is the stuff of national …
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Chinese monks fume over net slurs (AP)
Friday, August 31st, 2007AP - China’s Shaolin Temple has demanded a public apology from an Internet user who claimed a Japanese ninja beat its kung fu-practicing monks in a showdown, a lawyer said Friday.
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Chinese monks fume over net slurs
Friday, August 31st, 2007BEIJING — China’s Shaolin Temple has demanded a public apology from an Internet user who claimed a Japanese ninja beat its kung fu-practicing monks in a showdown, a lawyer said Friday.
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Bulldozer driver rams police station
Friday, August 31st, 2007TROY, N.H. — An ex-con on a stolen bulldozer repeatedly rammed the police station in Troy early Friday, tearing down large chunks of the front wall, authorities said.
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Ice hockey star wins damages from BA over incident (Reuters)
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Reuters - A Moscow district court on Friday
awarded former NHL All-Star Pavel Bure 67,000 roubles (1,297
pounds) in damages after British Airways prevented him from
boarding a flight from Moscow to London.
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Dutch royal couple edited own Wikipedia entry (Reuters)
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Reuters - Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands
and his wife Princess Mabel edited information about her past
in the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, the royal family said on
Friday.
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Get set on fire, hit by car at NYC stunt school (Reuters)
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Reuters - He falls down stairs, is blown up and
gets hit by cars for money — and now stuntman Teel James Glenn
will pass on his skills to would-be daredevils at what is being
touted as New York City's first stunt school.
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N.Y. couple: Second lotto jackpot in 8 years
Friday, August 31st, 2007Adeline and Eugene Angelo won $5 million Thursday after buying the winning ticket in last week’s New York Lotto. In 1996, they …
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Couple wins millions in lottery _ twice
Friday, August 31st, 2007NEW YORK — How lucky can you get?
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Palestinian teenager flounders in wrong event (Reuters)
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Reuters - Three days of travel is not the
best way for an athlete to prepare for the world athletics
championships but for 16-year-old Palestinian Gharid Ghrouf the
odyssey was just the start of her woes.
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