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Black Cat

Meatloaf the cat ends 3-week journey

Meatloaf - characterized by his owner as a "slightly larger," fluffy, 2-year old-gray cat - survived a three-week cross-country journey with no food or water.

On Jan. 31, Meatloaf wandered into a portable moving container of a man relocating from Pompano Beach, Fla., to Phoenix. From there the container sat in a warehouse until beginning its 3,500-mile journey across the country to Arizona.


Smiley

Man drives stolen car to police station

ANDERSON, S.C. - Authorities say a man drove a stolen car to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office to demand the return of nearly $2,000 officers seized from him during a drug arrest last June.

Deputies said after they told Charles Chambers, 36, to leave Tuesday afternoon, an officer noticed he got into a car that matched the description of a vehicle stolen about three hours earlier.

Life Preserver

US: DVD in firefighter's coat blocks bullet

A South Carolina man is thankful for a DVD that ended up taking a bullet for him. Colleton County Fire and Rescue Director Barry McRoy says he was leaving a Waffle House restaurant in Walterboro on Saturday morning when two men ran in fighting over a gun. Police say a bullet hit one of the struggling men, shattered a window and then hit McRoy.

USA

US: NBC reprimands employee for using picture of bin Laden behind Obama story

NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama.

"This mistake was inexcusable," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.

It happened during the opening of "Hardball" Monday evening. Matthews was previewing a story on the controversy over Obama's use of another politician's words, and a picture of bin Laden briefly flashed on the screen beside him with the headline "Words About Words."

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Bug

Flashback Greece: Spider In Woman's Ear

A woman went to her doctor complaining of headaches - and was told there was a spider living her ear.

The arachnid had even spun a web in the woman's ear canal during its brief stay.

The 33-year-old, from Athens, felt a sharp pain in her ear while out riding a motorbike.

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Cult

Paranoid? Don't Worry; It's All Under Control

Have you seen the latest issue of Paranoia magazine?

No? Well, that's not surprising, is it? There's a very good reason why you haven't seen it: They don't want you to see it. They know that Paranoia exposes them and their secret conspiracies to control every aspect of human life.

Smiley

A motorbike that will beat the traffic

Bikers tired of sharing the highway with inconsiderate motorists could have the ultimate revenge after an ex-stuntman put together a bike that will leave drivers in no doubt who is king of the road.

Ray Baumann spent three years building the 13.6 tonne Monster Motorbike
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Boys and their toys

Beer

Briton jailed for urinating on Latvian monument

A British man was sentenced to five days' detention on Tuesday for urinating on one of Latvia's most treasured monuments.

A court official said the Briton, who denied the charges, would serve his detention in a police cell after being found guilty of urinating on the Freedom Monument.

Smiley

Swiss police say found 2 stolen Zurich artworks

ZURICH - Swiss police have found two of the four oil paintings by 19th Century masters, which were stolen from a Zurich museum earlier this month in one of Europe's biggest art thefts, they said on Tuesday.

The two paintings, by van Gogh and Monet, were found on Monday in a car parked outside a Zurich psychiatric hospital, police said and have an estimated value of 70 million Swiss francs ($64 million).

Key

Poland: Green Light for Boy Racers

Polish boy racers have been given the green light to speed through city streets by the police.