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Flying to Cuba? Paris airports can teach you salsa

Parisian airports are offering free dance lessons in their terminals this summer to help passengers get into the holiday spirit, the company that runs the airports said on Thursday.

"So if you're flying to Cuba you can learn salsa and if you're flying to New York you can learn hip hop," a spokesman for Aeroports de Paris (ADP) said.

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Airport security event

Customs Official : 'May I know your name?'
Passenger : 'Batman'
Customs Official : 'What's your name!?'
Passenger : 'My name is Bat-man'
Customs Official : 'Trying to be funny!? What's your surname?'
Passenger : 'Super-man'
Customs Official : 'So you're telling me your name is Batman Superman?'
Passenger : 'Yes'
Customs Official : 'Arrest this guy...


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'Bomb' bag caused Brisbane Airport security scare

Qantas says an "inappropriate message" written on the side of a bag caused this afternoon's delays at the Brisbane Domestic Airport.

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Golden retriever adopts tiger cubs at Kansas zoo

CANEY - A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.

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Isabella, a golden retriever at the Safari Zoological Park, east of Caney, Kan. nurses Wednesday, July 30, 2008, three white tiger cubs she adopted after they were abandoned by their mother at the park. The cubs were born on Sunday.

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World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC



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The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

It heads the world's oldest top 10 joke list published by the University of Wolverhampton Thursday.

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Estonian who lost passport detained swimming home from Russia

Estonian border guards said Tuesday they had detained one of their citizens who lost his passport during a visit to Russia and tried to return home by swimming across the Narova border river.

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Satire: Lawnmower Assassin was Communist loner, says FBI

A man arrested by US police for the assassination of a lawnmower was a communist sympathiser who acted alone, the FBI said last night.

Keith Walendowski killed the Black & Decker Lawn Hog with two shots fired from a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle from the upstairs bedroom window of his Milwaukee home, agents said.

They claim he developed a hatred of American mowers after defecting to the Soviet Union, which he expected to be a lawnmower-based utopia.

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UK: Bird-brained vandal attacks cars

A Worcestershire man who thought vandals were attacking the family cars with pen knives was shocked to discover the culprit had feathers. Adam Fradgley, 35, a photographer from Bewdley, set up a camera to catch those responsible for the £2,000 damage.

An Audi A2 and Golf GTI were attacked for several weeks before Mr Fradgley realised a chaffinch was to blame. He believes the territorial bird was attacking its own reflection. "He must have thought it was a rival," he said.

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Wisconsin: Midwestern man shoots mower, voids warranty

"I can do that," Keith Walendowski told Milwaukee police after his arrest. "It's my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want."

Police charged Mr Walendowski with possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and disorderly conduct.

He could face a fine of up to $11,000 and six years and three months in prison, if convicted.

A woman who lives with Mr Walendowski told police he had been drinking, according to the complaint.

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US: Worst typo ever?

A US newspaper has made one of the most embarrassing typographical errors in media history.

New Hampshire's Valley News spelt its own name incorrectly - in the masthead on the front page.

This Monday readers were surprised to see the paper's name spelled "Valley Newss".

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