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Jun 21, 2013
Could Paula Deen's words bring down her empire?
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NEW YORK (AP) Paula Deen should hope for more fans like Jennifer Everett of Tyler, Texas, who carried a shopping bag filled with $53 worth...
Jun 19, 2013
Paris tackles rudeness to tourists with new manual
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PARIS (Reuters) - One of the world's most visited cities but also famous for its rudeness, Paris has embarked on a campaign to improve...
Jun 16, 2013
Morris the cat runs for mayor of Mexican city
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MEXICO CITY (AP) This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. Mo...
Jun 13, 2013
Months later, Sarah Palin back as Fox News analyst
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NEW YORK (AP) Sarah Palin is rejoining Fox News Channel as an analyst less than half a year after they decided to part ways. The former Al...
New diet craze offers five days of feasting for two days of famine
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By Constance Watson LONDON (Reuters) - Forget abandoning carbohydrates or detoxing. The new dieting craze sweeping Britain and taking off ...
Jun 9, 2013
China's 'first lady' Peng avoids California limelight
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By John Ruwitch RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - China's photogenic "first lady" Peng Liyuan played steel drums in Trin...
Jun 2, 2013
Ventura dangles idea of 2016 presidential bid
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Just back from his part-time home in Mexico, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura dangled the idea Friday that he coul...
May 29, 2013
Engineering students use dance to solve problems
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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) Engineering students at Northwestern University are getting a leg up on the competition. They're learning to swing...
May 28, 2013
Abandoned Chinese baby rescued from toilet pipe
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Firefighters in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe directly beneath a to...
May 27, 2013
Ohio man, 87, skydives to aid sick great-grandson
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WAYNESVILLE, Ohio (AP) An 87-year-old World War II veteran has parachuted from a plane in an Ohio to support his ailing great-grandson. Cl...
South Africa: Soweto resident shows off her snakes
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) Tourists have long flocked to the home-turned-museum of former President Nelson Mandela on Vilakazi Street, a lively str...
May 25, 2013
Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record
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FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting...
May 24, 2013
Prosecutor in Berlusconi sex trial receives mail with bullets
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MILAN (Reuters) - The prosecutor in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial has received a series of anonymous letters of ...
Brown hounded for calling Manila 'gates of hell'
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book...
May 20, 2013
Jon Stewart's humor a hit with millions of envious Chinese
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By Jane Lee SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Humor may not always translate well, but Jon Stewart is picking up millions of fans in China, where his g...
May 19, 2013
Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball lottery sold in Florida
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By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida...
May 16, 2013
Idaho man sentenced to seven years for killing zoo monkey
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By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seve...
May 9, 2013
China probes reports of film director Zhang Yimou's seven children
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have begun investigating reports that Zhang Yimou, one of China's best-known movie directors, ...
May 6, 2013
Utah cabin had uninvited guests 60,000 bees
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed a dozen feet long, packed inside ...
May 2, 2013
Bono's one-time Sydney holiday home sells for record $55.4 million
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Sydney harborfront mansion has been sold for a record-setting A$54 million ($55.4 million) to a Chinese-born business...
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