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Half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TV

Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey -- perhaps unsurprisingly carried out for a firm selling televisions -- said on Friday.

Electrical retailer Comet surveyed 2,000 Britons, asking them what they would give up for a large television, one of the latest consumer "must-haves".

Wolf

Dog Survives Weeklong Avalanche Ordeal

Helena, Mont. - Tom Pick saw the frightened look on his dog's face as the snow gave way, but he could only watch as a small avalanche swept the black Labrador retriever down the mountainside.

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This individual seeks an executive position. He will be available in January 2009, and is willing (and hopeful) to relocate.

Pistol

Store Clerk Robbed Twice in One Evening

Grand Rapids, Mich. - Two different armed robbers hit a Grand Rapids convenience store in one evening, taking money from the same store clerk on both occasions. Tommy Gutierrez, 31, works at the Shell station on the city's northwest side.

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Beer Gets Seatbelt. Child Doesn't

St. Augustine, Florida - Police have arrested a motorist they say had a 24-pack of beer strapped in with a seat belt but had a 16-month-old girl unrestrained in the back seat with the toddler's mother.

Bizarro Earth

Prayers serve as money at Croatian cafe

Customers at a newly-opened coffee shop in the Croatian capital of Zagreb pay with prayers instead of money for drinks, the Ananova news website said on Tuesday.

The number of prayers depends on a kind of a drink the visitor wants to order. The most expensive beverage at the Jedro cafe is Coca-Cola, which costs five 'Hail Marys,' while a cappuccino costs four 'Our Fathers'.

Light Sabers

Health and safety rules trip up pancake race

A Cathedral pancake race that is part of a 600-year-old tradition has been stopped because of health and safety rules.

The bell at Ripon Cathedral, which has rung at 11am to mark Shrove Tuesday since the 15th century, has signalled the start of the city's pancake race for the past 11 years.

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Wolf

US: Texas mayor resigns over Shih Tzu

The mayor of a small town in Texas has resigned after secretly keeping her neighbour's Shih Tzu while pretending it had died.

Neighbours had asked Alice Mayor Grace Saenz-Lopez to look after the dog, Puddles, during a holiday. She called them to say it was dead.

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The dog's name was changed from Puddles to Panchito

Life Preserver

Student's mouth-to-muzzle saves tiger cub

BERLIN - A German medical student got some unexpected practical experience at the zoo when she gave the kiss of life to a baby tiger choking on a piece of meat, the zoo director said Friday.

The student was passing the enclosure with her toddler son on a visit several weeks ago when she noticed the 4-month-old tiger choking and offered her assistance to the helpless keeper, said Andreas Jacob, director of the zoo in the eastern German city of Halle.

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NASA to beam Beatles' 'Across the Universe' to aliens

LONDON - An intergalactic celebration of The Beatles is launched on Monday with the beaming of their peace anthem "Across the Universe" into outer space.

The man behind the idea, which marks the 40th anniversary of the recording of the song in 1968, is an avid Beatles fan who has persuaded U.S. space agency NASA to kick off the party and now hopes to convert alien life forms to The Beatles.