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Zany bid for surreal immortality
By Paul Majendie LONDON - Share a bath with the most rattlesnakes. Join the longest bra chain. Marvel at the world 's biggest und...

It's official: you don't have to live in France
LONDON - Ask most Britons if they would rather live in France and they 'd probably answer "oui. " But British judges have ruled that tw...

The look of love is all in the eyes
By Jennifer Hill LONDON - Burt Bacharach penned the music four decades ago and Dusty Springfield sang about it in the James Bond ...

Cow plunges off cliff onto moving minivan
SPOKANE, Washington - A cow plunged from a 200-foot (61-metre) cliff onto the hood of a minivan on a highway in central Washington state...

Boys to swap homes 4 years after mix-up
RIYADH - Two boys, one Saudi and one Turkish, will swap homes four years after a hospital gave them to the wrong parents, a Saudi newspa...

What says Christmas like a serial killer?
BERLIN - A German advent calendar for children has become a hot seller since word got out it has a picture of a notorious serial killer ...

Waking up to nosebleeds in super-dry autumn
BEIJING - Moisture has become a luxury in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa where many locals are waking up to nosebleeds in the dry autumn, ...

"Best mom" chosen as face of currency
SEOUL - South Korea 's central bank on Monday chose the face of Korean motherhood as the first woman to be featured on its banknotes, bu...

Court orders goat thief to say sorry
SYDNEY - An Australian woman who stole a pet goat and was involved in slaughtering it in a mock Satanic ritual in a church, was ordered ...

Man gets life for lottery ticket scam
BEIJING - A Chinese lottery ticket seller has been jailed for life for fraud for taking advantage of a system flaw to cash 28 million yu...