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"Winning" Super Bowl shirts end up in Nicaragua
MANAGUA - Shirts and caps proclaiming the victory of the New England Patriots -- when the American football team actually lost the lates...

"Squeezed in" subway ad angers passengers
BEIJING - An advertisement on Beijing 's subway proclaiming "Squeezed in?! Go and buy a car then! " has angered passengers who said it ...

Mr. Rude is French and flatulent?
By Georgina Cooper LONDON - Zut alors! The popular British cartoon and television series "Mr. Men " has come up with a malodorou...

Model police officer arrested for extortion
MEXICO CITY - A two-time Mexico City "policeman of the year " has been arrested on suspicion of extorting money from illegal "car-watc...

Regulators now spooked by ghost stories
BEIJING - China has added ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the night to its list of banned video and audio content in a...

How deep is your love? Passion phones know
SEOUL - Valentines Day in South Korea means chocolates, romantic dinners and a high-tech mobile phone device that can secretly check the...

Microfiber fabric makes its own electricity?
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO - U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enou...

Private eye defends integrity of "honey trapping"
By Kate Kelland LONDON - When Richard Martinez goes to a nightclub or bar, he often goes alone. But the 38-year-old former...

No sex on Valentine's, Thai police warn teens
By Nopporn Wong-Anan BANGKOK - Alarmed by polls showing one in four Thai teens will celebrate St. Valentine 's Day by having sex,...

Internet sex auction sparks paternity row
BERLIN - A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the...