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Licence to lie for Italian women

Adulterous Italian women can now protect their honour with impunity
Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.

The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.

Beer

Hey, tanks a lot! Drunken Russian Tank Crew Wrecks House

Moscow - A Russian tank crashed through a villager's house after the crew stopped to buy more vodka at a nearby shop.

Phoenix

Angry Wife Accused of Burning 400 Phones

A spurned Chinese wife set fire to more than 400 cell phones owned by her and her husband after he walked out on their marriage, a news agency reported Friday. The official Xinhua News Agency said the 37-year-old woman, identified only by her surname Wang, was arrested for arson.

Bizarro Earth

'Donkey song' causes divorce at Syrian wedding reception

A newly-married husband in northwest Syria divorced his wife at their wedding reception after his new bride insulted him with a 'donkey' song, the Al Watan newspaper said on Friday.

The incident happened in the Syrian city of Latakia after the bride had chosen the Arab song, "I love you, my little donkey," for their first wedding dance.

Singing the song, the woman went on to call her new husband a donkey numerous times, admitting however that she would be angry if anyone else did so.

Heart

Hate the snoring, but PS I love you

A "chick flick" movie proved so boring for a Christchurch man he went to sleep in a Hoyts cinema last night - and his wife was so annoyed she left him there.

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A Christchurch man was less than enthralled by the movie 'PS I Love You'

Briefcase

Student Sues School Board for letting him graduate

Kanawha County, W.Va. -- Most students are excited to get their high school diploma, but a former student at Sissonville High is suing the Kanawha County School Board for letting him graduate.

Cow Skull

Cemetery full: Mayor tells locals not to die

Bordeaux, France - The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

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NY Pub Bans 'Danny Boy' on St. Patrick's

It's depressing. It's not usually sung in Ireland for St. Patrick's Day. Its lyrics were written by an Englishman who never set foot on Irish soil. Those are only some of the reasons a Manhattan pub is giving for banning the song "Danny Boy" for the entire month of March.

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Roses

Preposterous! Scent of a candidate bottled

Hedgesville, West Virginia - April Cline was a perfume designer for six years before giving it up to become a certified life coach.

She hadn't really thought about it much until about a month ago, just after watching one of the Democratic presidential debates.

That's when it hit her - why not design perfumes to compliment the presidential front runners?

Comment: Nope - it still looks like a farce. It just smells kind of a bit more citrusy. That would be the lemons standing for president.


Syringe

Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.