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Kentucky attorney general set up cybercrime unit and has his identity stolen

Lexington - Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway - who this month announced a special unit on cybercrime - has found himself the victim of identity theft.

When Conway tried to buy some music on iTunes, the company wouldn't accept his credit card, saying the billing zip code didn't match their records.

The state's top legal officer says someone had stolen his credit card number and charged thousands of dollars worth of computers, Vonage phone service and postal service charges.

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Satire: Price of Gas to rise, says people who set the price of Gas

The men who set the price of gas have predicted gas prices will rise by about 40%.

The bosses of Britain's six biggest energy companies told MPs the only control they had over the price of gas was deciding how much they were going to charge people for using it.

Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON, said: "Given the volatile nature of the current market and the knock-on effect of high oil prices, it's very difficult, at this stage, to predict how much more money I'm going to want.

"As a very rough, ballpark figure I would say I'm probably going to want about 40% more money."

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These things aren't cheap, you know

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Flashback Iran's atomic bicycle in Venezuela!

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has dubbed the very first bike produced at a joint Iranian-Venezuelan factory 'the atomic bicycle'.

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Brazilian jail puts stop to 'pigeon post' drug deliveries

The inmates of a Brazilian prison used pigeons to deliver drugs and mobile phone parts to their cells, national TV reported on Tuesday.

The deliveries came to light after authorities at the prison, located some 444 km (275 miles) from Sao Paulo, noticed a growth in drugs and mobile phones seized from prisoners.

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China: Dachshund pushes wheelchair

A dachshund dog has become a local celebrity in China for his skills in pushing a wheelchair.

Two-year-old Guai Guai runs underneath the wheelchair pushing the foot rests with his front legs.

He is so small - and fast - that many passers-by assume the wheelchair is motorised, reports Dahe Network.

His owner, Ms Wang of Zhengzhou, says he learnt to push her father's wheelchair when he was a puppy and used to hide underneath it.

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Poland: Chimp lands tourism job

Town hall staff in a Poland town have put a chimp on the payroll as a tourism promotions inspector.

The 17-year-old ape, called Bobby, is being paid ยฃ70 a month in Radkow to plug a local beauty spot - and is already up for promotion.

Bobby plugs a district called Table Mountains which has a cluster of outcrops known locally as Monkey Rock.

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Chinese museum buys quake pig that survived 36 days in debris

A pig, who amazingly survived 36 days under rubble of a collapsed pig farm in China struck by a devastating quake, was bought by a local museum for $438, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported on Monday.

The death toll from the May 12 earthquake, measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale and the biggest to hit China in three decades, is nearing 70,000, with 17,000 people still missing.

The pig, dubbed Zhu Jianqiang, roughly meaning "Mr. Strongwill," was rescued by soldiers on June 17. Vets were amazed that the lucky porker, who lost 100 kg (220 lbs) in weight during its ordeal, managed to survive at all, as previously it was thought pigs could only last for around five days without food or water.

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Wind Turbines to Combat Global Warming

Sources close to David Cameron have revealed that the Conservative Party leader is considering radical proposals to build thousands of wind turbines in the North of England, Scotland and Wales, in a bid to combat global warming.

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Fans to cool Tory heartlands

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Hampstead luvvies gobsmacked at nuke bomb discovery

London - (Cash-for-Honors Mess): Residents of a wealthy North London enclave are frantic following the discovery of an unexploded nuclear device in safe deposit vaults owned by business pals of Lord Levy.

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Operation Rize: more nuclear devices may be hidden in the Hampstead depository

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Video: George Carlin on "the American Dream"

George Carlin discusses 'the American Dream'
"People spending money they don't have on things they don't need"
Warning: contains strong language