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Netherlands: Dog owners angry at public sex plan

Dog owners in Amsterdam are angry after the city legalised public sex in one of the city's most famous parks.

Councillors agreed that heterosexual and gay couples could have sex in the Vondelpark which has ten million visitors a year.

But they promised to clampdown on dog owners who let their pets walk in the park without a lead.

People

Egypt to get first women bus drivers

Egyptian public buses are to have female drivers for the first time, national media reported on Wednesday.

The national bus service has been badly hit by a lack of staff, with many male drivers leaving to take up better-paid positions at private and tourist companies.

Beer

US: Sample the beer before you buy it

Washington lawmakers have approved a pilot program that will allow beer and wine tasting in 30 grocery stores statewide in an effort to market local products.

The measure now heads to the governor, after passing the Senate 29-17 on Monday. It earlier passed the House.

Frog

"Dead" Couple Were On Holiday

A couple who went on holidays to Melbourne, Australian were shocked to discover upon their return that the police were holding a press conference in their house concerning their mysterious disappearance.

Heart

Accident ruins 800-lb. man's date

MEXICO CITY - When Manuel Uribe went out on a date, he made all the necessary arrangements: a forklift to carry him out of the house and a flatbed tow truck big enough to haul the formerly half-ton man and his bed to a party.

But even the open road wasn't big enough to handle Uribe's dream of celebrating a budding romance and his success in losing about 440 pounds.

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Manuel Uribe, center, is moved on his bed onto a flatbed truck in Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, March 10, 2008. Formerly known as the 'Half Ton Man', Uribe left his house to go on a date with his girlfriend, and to celebrate his diet, having lost about 440 pounds. Uribe's blood pressure dropped so much his doctors advised him not to go on and the celebration, being documented by about two dozen photographers and reporters from around the world, was canceled.

Bizarro Earth

India: Man earns record for hairiest ears

Radhakant Bajpai, from Kanpur has just made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world's hairiest ears.

Bajpai's ear tufts measured 13.2 cm when he created the record and have now grown to almost 25 cm.

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Bad Guys

Seven new deadly sins: are you guilty?

Drug pushers, the obscenely rich, environmental polluters and "manipulative" genetic scientists beware - you may be in danger of losing your mortal soul unless you repent.

After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalisation. The list, published yesterday in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the "decreasing sense of sin" in today's "securalised world" and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession.

Butterfly

Celebrating Creativity: Imagination Machine brings stories to life

Sometime youngster's imaginations run away from them. And sometimes, their imagination runs toward them.

At least, that was the case Thursday at Mesa Robles Middle School in Hacienda Heights. The students' stories took wing, so to speak, thanks to the Imagination Machine.

War Whore

President Bush speaks his mind (!?)

Of the many ways President George Bush has proved himself a clueless commander-in-chief, his recent comments about rising prices gas tops them all.

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UFO

Robbie Williams claims he has seen UFOs three times

Singer Robbie Williams claims that he has encountered a UFO at least three times.

The 'Feel' star - who has previously battled drug and alcohol addiction - also says he'll quit his singing career to study aliens after his series' of extra terrestrial experiences.

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