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Circus "slave" forced to swim with piranhas
ROME - Police rescued two teenage Bulgarian sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating p...

Owner fails to back own horse in 33-1 win
By Paul Hoskins DUBLIN - Ryanair boss Michael O 'Leary 's famed acumen and self-confidence briefly deserted him when he failed to...

Traffickers on the run after flagging down cops
SUVA - Two Fijian youths who mistakenly stopped a police car thinking it was their truck are now on the run after dumping their sacks of...

Russian farmer sues space agency for falling rocket
By Natalya Sokhareva BARNAUL, Russia - A shepherd is suing Russia 's space agency for compensation after he said a 10-foot-long c...

Gophers notch a win in man-rodent battle
CALGARY, Alberta - A war on gophers waged by two Canadian men went awry this weekend when a device used to blast the rodents in their ho...

Restaurant gives 25 percent discount for bugs
DUBAI - A group celebrating a birthday at a Dubai diner were cheered by a 25 percent discount but not necessarily the reason: "Bug on f...

Record bingo winner to keep working as cleaner
LONDON - A Scottish cleaner who won a record bingo jackpot over the Easter weekend said she would return to work as normal on Tuesday. ...

Hundreds of visitors stranded on London Eye
LONDON - Four hundred people were trapped on the London Eye for more than an hour while engineers fixed a mechanical fault, a spokeswoma...

Donkey takes final bow at ballet troupe
ST PETERSBURG, Russia - Russia 's Mariinsky ballet has said farewell to one of its longest-serving artistes: a 21-year-old female donkey...

Launching Olympic-themed lottery
BEIJING - China has launched an Olympic-themed lottery with prizes of up to 5 million yuan ($709,000), local media reported. Chin...