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UFO

RAF Radar Misread Church Spire as UFO

RAF air defence radars spotted a 'UFO' over Lincolnshire skies - only to find it was a county church.

Airmen at RAF Neatishead in Norfolk mistook the unidentified blip in Lincolnshire airspace for an alien visitor, according to newly revealed reports from the Ministry of Defence and National Archives.

But the report was then forced to conclude the county had not had a close encounter, after the radar imagery was identified as St Botolph's church spire in Boston.

The report read: "The church spire is known in aviation circles as the 'Boston Stump' and appears occasionally on some radars in certain radar propagation conditions."

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Russia: Gnome poster removed before Medvedev visit

Theater posters proclaiming "We await you, merry gnome" were taken down from a Russian town shortly before a visit by the country's diminutive President Dmitry Medvedev, a local website reported on Friday.

The advertisements were for a children's theater show, but were removed from a street that the president's convoy was due to use on his visit to Omsk on February 12, the nr2.ru website reports, citing local sources.

Russian media say Medvedev is 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) tall.

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California: Suspected SoCal Graffiti Vandal Picks Wrong Room

It was clearly the wrong room for a suspected graffiti vandal to target.

Sheriff's officials say 22-year-old Joshua Vasquez was arrested Friday after he allegedly tried to deface a glass door leading into a City of Commerce meeting room where over 100 Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and police officers were attending a training class.

Sheriff's Captain Mike Parker says the officers could see the young man through the glass door, but he could not see them. Parker says Vasquez began to open the door to etch the inside when he suddenly saw dozens of officers running toward him.

Parker says Vasquez turned and fled with at least 40 officers in pursuit.

Family

UK: Man Wakes from Coma When Wife Tells Him He Became a Grandfather

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© SWNSAgainst the odds: Farmer David Russell with wife Helen and a photograph of new granddaughter Edie.
Some things are worth waking up for.

And after two weeks in a coma David Russell finally opened his eyes - after his wife told him he had just become a grandfather.

Doctors had previously warned Helen Russell that the prognosis for her 60-year-old husband was not good.

But on hearing the news of the latest addition to the family, the farmer is making a full recovery.

Mr Russell was left fighting for his life after he fell 12ft onto concrete while replacing guttering on a barn roof.

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Coffee

Germany: Thief Robs Arcade with Cup of Coffee

A thief in the German town of Hamelin robbed an amusement arcade by threatening the attendant with a cup of coffee, authorities said on Tuesday.

"He wasn't going to pour coffee over her, he was going to hit her with the cup," a spokesman for local police said.

Brandishing the steaming cup he had just ordered, the thief forced the 26-year-old to open the till and fled with cash.

Police would not say how much money he had taken from the attendant, who had been alone in the arcade.

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Sculpture Sells Itself On eBay

Artist Caleb Larsen has created an art sculpture which, when connected to the Internet, perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay.

Family

The Newest Diet Trend: What Would Jesus Eat?

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God cries when you eat Pop-Tarts. But He smiles when you drink carrot juice, and when you do a colon cleanse, He beams.

That's the spirit driving one of America's biggest current diet fads. Granted, you've probably never heard of it unless you hang with Bible-believing Christians, but it goes by many names: the Hallelujah Diet, the Maker's Diet, the Lord's Diet, the Genesis 1:29 Diet. Some versions are vegan, some largely raw; all include organic whole grains -- and some of their kingpins have piously channeled this fad into multimillion-dollar enterprises, hawking must-have supplements at hefty prices. An eight-ounce bottle of phosphatidylcholine (a membrane extracted from soybeans or egg yolks) for $124.99? Sure, when its brand name reads like a promise: Divine Health.

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UK: Pheasant terrorising North Yorkshire village 'attacks people in street'

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A pheasant is terrorising a village - trapping people in their homes and attacking people in the street.

The vicious bird has launched several unprovoked attacks on villagers in recent weeks.

Men, women, children, prams, bikes, dogs and cars are said to have have fallen foul of the bird in Newsham, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.