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Black Eyed Peas' (from L to R) will.i.am, Taboo, Fergie and ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:55:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Black Eyed Peas' (from L to R) will.i.am, Taboo, Fergie and apl.de.ap pose with their Grammy awards at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles January 31, 2010. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Punxsutawney Phil, the celebrated rodent at the center of America's ...

(AFP) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - Punxsutawney Phil, the celebrated rodent at the center of America's quirky Groundhog Day festivities, has seen his shadow, presaging six more weeks of winter. Photo:Mark Wilson/AFP

An Indonesian tobacco company has agreed to pay the medical ...

(AFP) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:11:00 GMT

(AFP) - An Indonesian tobacco company has agreed to pay the medical expenses of a man who lost six teeth when a cigarette mysteriously exploded in his mouth. Photo:/AFP

Performers enact a commemorative ceremony to mark birthday of ...

(AFP) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:31:00 GMT

(AFP) - Performers enact a commemorative ceremony to mark birthday of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, politician and educator of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., at the Confucius temple in Qufu, northeastern China's Shandong provincein 2004. Lottery tickets bearing Confucius's image and proverbs went on sale last week in his hometown of Qufu, with the top prize set at 300,000 yuan ($44,000). Photo:/AFP

A US pilot hired to make traffic reports for a local radio station ...

(AFP) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:39:00 GMT

(AFP) - A US pilot hired to make traffic reports for a local radio station became the news himself Monday when he made an emergency landing on the busy New Jersey Turnpike. Photo:/AFP

A Russian woman was caught at a border checkpoint in Russia's ...

(AFP) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:41:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Russian woman was caught at a border checkpoint in Russia's far east attempting to smuggle 50 lovebirds from China under her coat, officials have said. Photo:Yuri Cortez/AFP

A German woman has hired a lawyer after being shocked to discover ...

(AFP) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:59:00 GMT

(AFP) - A German woman has hired a lawyer after being shocked to discover that not only did police deliberately run over her beloved dog, they have now sent her a hefty bill, according to a report in the Bild daily. Photo:/AFP

A beggar takes a nap with street dogs while souvenir sellers ...

(AFP) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:58:00 GMT

(AFP) - A beggar takes a nap with street dogs while souvenir sellers rest in the Hanuman Dhoka tourist area in Kathmandu. The Nepal Red Cross Society has voted to pay a monthly 'salary' to a wounded stray dog that has taken on the job of guarding its office. Photo:Devendra Man Singh/AFP

Women look at the discounted prices in a shopwindow at a shoe ...

(AFP) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - Women look at the discounted prices in a shopwindow at a shoe store in central Athens on January 19. Flashy boots have become an early casualty in debt-hit Greece where thousands of thrift-minded women are switching to rubber wellingtons instead, top-selling Greek daily Ta Nea said this week. Photo:Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP

Margaret Thatcher went on a crash diet eating 28 eggs a week ...

(AFP) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:56:00 GMT

(AFP) - Margaret Thatcher went on a crash diet eating 28 eggs a week to get in shape ahead of the 1979 election when she was elected British prime minister, according to papers released by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. Photo:Peter Parks/AFP

This photo shows an alleged missile in the sky above Harbour ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:18:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - This photo shows an alleged missile in the sky above Harbour Mille, Newfoundland, on January 25, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Darlene Stewart

People sit on a chair lift in the French ski resort of Avoriaz ...

(AFP) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:14:00 GMT

(AFP) - People sit on a chair lift in the French ski resort of Avoriaz in 2009. A German tourist who injured himself while skiing in the Tyrolean Alps this month said he was asked to swipe his bank card before he could be treated, local radio ORF reported Friday. Photo:Fred Dufour/AFP

A customer eats raw oysters at the Fish Warf in Washington August ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:05:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A customer eats raw oysters at the Fish Warf in Washington August 15, 2008. REUTERS/Molly Riley

Adam Buczynski poses with a dog found floating cold and alone ...

(The Canadian Press) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:07:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Adam Buczynski poses with a dog found floating cold and alone on an ice floe 15 miles off the Polish Baltis Sea coast. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Krzysztof Mystkowski)

Picture made available on Thursday, Jan 28, 2010 shows a dog ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:54:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Picture made available on Thursday, Jan 28, 2010 shows a dog found floating cold and alone on an ice floe 15 miles off the Polish coast as it is examined by veterinarians after its harrowing ordeal; in Gdynia, Poland, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. The rescuers have given it the name 'Baltic' until it can hopefully be reunited with its owner. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Maciej Czoska

Adam Buczynski carries a dog found floating cold and alone on ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:37:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Adam Buczynski carries a dog found floating cold and alone on an ice floe 15 miles off the Polish Baltic Sea coast in Gdynia, Poland. Buczynski, a sailor from the ship 'Baltic' pulled out the dog from the ice floe. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Maciej Czoska)

Israeli soldiers march during a training exercise in the northern ...

(AFP) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:17:00 GMT

(AFP) - Israeli soldiers march during a training exercise in the northern West Bank in late 2009. Israel's foot soldiers are getting new odour-free socks that can be worn for two weeks straight without smelling or stinking up the feet, the Maariv daily has reported. Photo:Menahem Kahana/AFP

An event guest plays with the new Apple iPad during an Apple ...

(AFP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:52:00 GMT

(AFP) - An event guest plays with the new Apple iPad during an Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. Twitter users responded snarkily Wednesday to the name of Apple's latest innovation the iPad, pushing the phrase 'iTampon' to a number two 'trending' topic on the microblogging site. Photo:Justin Sullivan/AFP

The face of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, pictured, will adorn ...

(AFP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - The face of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, pictured, will adorn bottles of a soft drink to go on sale next month in Russia, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper has reported. Photo:Stf/AFP

Roman Catholic priests are seen before an open air mass at a ...

(AFP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - Roman Catholic priests are seen before an open air mass at a Manila park, in 2003. Thousands of Roman Catholic priests in the Philippines were set to make mass confessions of their sins to each other on Wednesday. Photo:Joel Nito/AFP

Thousands of Roman Catholic priests in the Philippines were ...

(AFP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - Thousands of Roman Catholic priests in the Philippines were set to make mass confessions of their sins to each other on Wednesday. Photo:Joel Nito/AFP

Actress Jessica Alba is seen here attending the 2010 Sundance ...

(AFP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:53:00 GMT

(AFP) - Actress Jessica Alba is seen here attending the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, on January 24, in Park City, Utah. A Chinese woman is so keen to win back her ex-boyfriend that she plans to undergo plastic surgery to transform herself into his favourite actress: Hollywood star Jessica Alba. Photo:Scott Halleran/AFP

Former prime minister Tony Blair, seen here, will add to a lucrative ...

(AFP) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:17:00 GMT

(AFP) - Former prime minister Tony Blair, seen here, will add to a lucrative portfolio since leaving power with lectures to a hedge fund that reportedly bet on the collapse of the country's banks, his spokesman has said. Photo:Mido Ahmed/AFP

'The Actor' by Pablo Picasso, seen here, was damaged after a ...

(AFP) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - 'The Actor' by Pablo Picasso, seen here, was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into 'The Actor' and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said. Photo:/AFP

File photo of an employee of China Eastern Airlines at the ticket ...

(AFP) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - File photo of an employee of China Eastern Airlines at the ticket counter at Beijing's Capital Airport. Hundreds of Chinese air travellers scored a major bargain when a computer glitch allowed them to buy online tickets from China Eastern Airlines for less than three dollars. Photo:Peter Parks/AFP

Two Chinese pop stars have become the first victims of a ban ...

(AFP) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - Two Chinese pop stars have become the first victims of a ban on the use of lip-syncing in concerts introduced last year following controversy over the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. Photo:Frank Micelotta/AFP

A Briton whose noisy sex sessions were officially branded anti-social ...

(AFP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Briton whose noisy sex sessions were officially branded anti-social behaviour is liable to find herself behind bars if she fails to stop excessively loud lovemaking, a court has ruled. Photo:Mikhail Mordasov/AFP

The US Airways Airbus A320 that Captain Chesley Sullenberger ...

(AFP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - The US Airways Airbus A320 that Captain Chesley Sullenberger landed safely in the Hudson River a year ago after smashing into a flock of geese is on the auction block. Photo:Ramin Talaie/AFP

The US Airways Airbus A320 that pilot Chesley Sullenberger landed ...

(AFP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - The US Airways Airbus A320 that pilot Chesley Sullenberger landed safely in the Hudson River is on the auction block. Photo:Ramin Talaie/AFP

'Markus' Nevada's first male prostitute. A brothel in an isolated ...

(The Canadian Press) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:09:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - 'Markus' Nevada's first male prostitute. A brothel in an isolated Nevada town has hired the state's first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only legal gigolo in the United States. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/OC Modeling)

At least 30 runners in a marathon in China cheated their way ...

(AFP) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - At least 30 runners in a marathon in China cheated their way into the top 100, hopping on to public transport during the race or hiring faster runners, sporting authorities said Friday. Photo:Attila Kisbenedek/AFP

In this May 5, 2009 file photo, conjoined twin brothers Ron, ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:35:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this May 5, 2009 file photo, conjoined twin brothers Ron, left and Don Galyon relax at their home in Dayton, Ohio. They are listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living male conjoined twins. The men are moving in with their brother Jim in the spring. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Dayton Daily News, Jim Noelker)

Orange habanero peppers, the hottest pepper on the Scoville ...

(AFP) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:48:00 GMT

(AFP) - Orange habanero peppers, the hottest pepper on the Scoville heat index, are displayed in the Shop 'N' Save Market in 2006 in Des Plaines, Illinois. Eight teenagers were rushed to hospital Wednesday after drinking concentrated chilli sauce in a spicy game of 'dare', German police said. Photo:Tim Boyle/AFP

Pedestrians walk past the Debenhams store on Oxford Street, ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:21:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Pedestrians walk past the Debenhams store on Oxford Street, in central London October 19, 2008. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

The original grave of Edgar Allen Poe is shown with a bottle ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:18:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - The original grave of Edgar Allen Poe is shown with a bottle of cognac and roses left by a mysterious visitor, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, in Baltimore. At 5:30 a.m., Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010 curator Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum, emerged to announce that the mysterious visitor, who had always appeared between midnight and 5:30 a.m., never showed. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Rob Carr)

Chocolate copies of the Terracotta Warriors on display for the ...

(AFP) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:50:00 GMT

(AFP) - Chocolate copies of the Terracotta Warriors on display for the upcoming opening of the new 'chocolate wonderland' theme park in Beijing on January 18. Photo:/AFP

An Air New Zealand plane taxiing past the air traffic control ...

(AFP) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:18:00 GMT

(AFP) - An Air New Zealand plane taxiing past the air traffic control tower at Sydney Airport. Air New Zealand has drawn the ire of a rape prevention group over a competition aimed at 'cougars' -- middle-aged women who prefer younger men. Photo:Greg Wood/AFP

Picture taken in 2005 shows cars standing in a queue on the ...

(AFP) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:22:00 GMT

(AFP) - Picture taken in 2005 shows cars standing in a queue on the bridge over the Narova River between Estonia's town Narva and Russia's town Ivangorod. Russian authorities have broken up a smuggling network that used a professional diver to swim with cigarettes across a river to Estonia, the Russian security service said Monday. Photo:Alexander Drozdov/AFP

Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower, in the Gulf emirate on ...

(AFP) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:47:00 GMT

(AFP) - Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower, in the Gulf emirate on January 3. French climber Alain Robert, known as 'Spiderman' for his death-defying antics, has set his sights on scaling the world's tallest skyscraper, Dubai's Burj Khalifa tower, a report said. Photo:Karim Sahib/AFP

Undated photo from the Northern Marianas website shows one of ...

(AFP) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - Undated photo from the Northern Marianas website shows one of the Mariana Islands. The governor of the US-administered Northern Mariana Islands is feeling the heat after ordering the temporary release of a jailed suspect to give him a massage. The masseuse was taken from the local prison, where she was being held on people smuggling charges, to the governor's mansion before being returned to jail. Photo:/AFP

A worker adjusts Terracotta Warriors made of chocolate at the ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:36:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker adjusts Terracotta Warriors made of chocolate at the Chocolate Wonderland in Beijing January 14, 2010. REUTERS/Grace Liang

A woman walks with her dog on the beach of Sitges covered by ...

(AFP) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - A woman walks with her dog on the beach of Sitges covered by snow, 40 kms south of Barcelona. Police and firefighters in Spain have rescued a woman who spent eight days trapped in the lift of her apartment building in Sitges, police said Thursday. Photo:Lluis Gene/AFP

Children play with a sled in the snow in the eastern German ...

(AFP) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - Children play with a sled in the snow in the eastern German town of Hohen Neuendorf in November 2009. Three young schoolchildren sparked a panicked search when they slipped out of their kindergarten to flee wintry Germany and 'fly to Africa', authorities said Thursday. Photo:Michael Urban/AFP

A hippopotamus called Nikica drinks water from the swimming ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:31:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A hippopotamus called Nikica drinks water from the swimming pool in the centre of the Plavnica hotel complex, some 17km south of Podgorica January 13, 2010. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic

In this Oct. 29, 2002 file photo female Nikica, left, and male ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:13:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this Oct. 29, 2002 file photo female Nikica, left, and male Lucky hippopotamuses in a private zoo at the Skadar Lake, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of the Montenegro capital Podgorica. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Risto Bozovic, file

Chinese university freshmen queue up to register as they arrive ...

(AFP) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:18:00 GMT

(AFP) - Chinese university freshmen queue up to register as they arrive at the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing in August 2009. Students born, raised and educated in China are using fake foreign passports to get into top universities, which have higher entrance standards for domestic candidates, state media said Wednesday. Photo:/AFP

Ivo Josipovic talks to a reporter after his win in the second ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:12:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Ivo Josipovic talks to a reporter after his win in the second round of Croatia's presidential elections at his campaign headquarters in Zagreb early January 11, 2010. REUTERS/Nikola Solic

The Assiniboine River in Winnipeg next to the Manitoba legislature ...

(AFP) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - The Assiniboine River in Winnipeg next to the Manitoba legislature in 2006. Canada's second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name after 90 years because the title is too often censored by online porn filters, preventing it from reaching new online readers. Photo:Jeff Palmer/AFP

The Rev. Canon David Parrott blesses computers and mobile phones ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:06:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - The Rev. Canon David Parrott blesses computers and mobile phones on the altar of the 17th-century St Lawrence Jewry Church, in the City of London, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, in an effort, he said, to remind the capital's busy office workers that God's grace can reach them in many ways. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Sang Tan)

Kirk McCambley, lover of the wife of Northern Ireland's First ...

(AFP) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - Kirk McCambley, lover of the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson, arrives at his work at the Lock Keepers Inn Cafe in Belfast. McCambley is being headhunted by Britain's top gay magazine which wants him to to be its cover boy. Photo:Peter Muhly/AFP