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Drug hitmen snatch buddy's body from morgue
TIJUANA, Mexico - Twenty heavily armed drug hitmen snatched the body of a fellow trafficker from a morgue in northern Mexico after he di...

Tropical fish can live for months out of water
By Mica Rosenberg GUATEMALA CITY - A tropical fish that lives in mangrove swamps across the Americas can survive out of water for...

Microsoft video game banned for sex scene?
SINGAPORE - Singapore has banned a Microsoft Corp video game which contains a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing and...

Behave or lose allowances, residents told
BEIJING - A Chinese residential community has issued a list of acceptable behavior for its inhabitants and is threatening to take away t...

Fake crocodile can lead to tears
HONG KONG - Hong Kong people hoping to cure their asthma through the age-old remedy of a dish of crocodile meat could instead come down ...

Publisher challenges genitals picture ban
TOKYO - A publisher has taken to Japan 's top court his eight-year fight over the banning of imported images of male genitals in a book ...

Sect holes up in cave to await end of world
By Tatyana Ustinova MOSCOW - At least 30 members of a Russian doomsday cult have barricaded themselves in a remote cave to await ...

Pedophile allowed to work in kindergarten
BERLIN - A convicted pedophile sentenced to do community service in a German kindergarten will return to court next week to face charges...

Soldiers catch more runaway crocs
HANOI - Soldiers and rangers have captured 88 crocodiles which escaped from a breeding farm in a central Vietnam province, but hundreds ...

Police arrest teenage online furniture thief
AMSTERDAM - Dutch police have made their first arrest of an online thief -- a 17-year-old accused of stealing virtual furniture from roo...