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                  as of Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:20:48 GMT

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Reuters - North Wales police couldn't believe their eyes when a camera
 at a notorious accident spot caught a driver using both hands to put on
 her make-up.

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Reuters - An elderly man spent at least three days in his vehicle on the
 side of a busy Canadian highway before anyone - including police who
 checked the car's license plate - realized he was dead.

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Reuters - The country that gave the world such risque comic acts as
 Benny Hill, the Two Ronnies and Little Britain has banned Australia's
 new "bloody hell" tourism ads from television because they are too
 rude.

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Reuters - It may not be what Sharon Stone wants to discuss, but the
 actress is happy to confirm that, yes, she does indeed get naked in her
 next movie, the sequel to the 1992 hit "Basic Instinct."

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Reuters - Mexico is deploying an army of inflatable sex dolls dressed as
 office executives in a head-turning publicity campaign against
 workplace harassment of women in the famously macho country.

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Reuters - In front of a roaring log fire in a mountain lodge, Walter
 Eppich sips a cold lager after a day of skiing and discusses the score
 from "The Sound of Music."

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Reuters - Clocks will be one of Britain's weapons against problem
 gambling when it liberalizes the sector, allowing a new wave of large
 Las Vegas-style casinos across the country, the government said
 Thursday.

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Reuters - Spain has asked Interpol to stop the auction of five 10th
 century wooden beams originally from Cordoba's mosque, a World Heritage
 site, and find out how the beams arrived on the open market.

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Reuters - Venezuela's Congress, dominated by allies of socialist
 President Hugo Chavez, has approved a revamp of the national coat of
 arms to ensure its white horse gallops left instead of right.

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AP - A man accused of stealing a car was arrested after stopping to ask
 for directions at the car owner's father's house, authorities said.

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Reuters - A Japanese Buddhist priest who was arrested on suspicion of
 having paid sex with a teenage girl said he was under stress and had
 given in to lust.

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AP - Tondalayo, a 45-year-old Sumatran orangutan, and T.J., a stray
 tabby cat, became an inseparable duo after a zoo employee introduced
 them late last year.

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Reuters - Clocks will be one of the weapons against problem gambling
 when the sector is liberalised, allowing a new wave of large Las
 Vegas-style casinos across the country, the government said on
 Thursday.

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AP - A dog that was presumed drowned after falling into an icy river
 channel that feeds Lake Michigan was found alive hours later and
 returned to its grateful owner.

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Reuters - Is the next James Bond too blond for Her Majesty's Secret
 Service? Stricken by heat rash? Licensed to kill but not licensed to
 drive the famous stick-shift Aston Martin sports car?

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AP - A man who was evicted from the house he rented for years allegedly
 took revenge on his landlords by dumping the home's hoarded contents --
 five-gallon buckets of cookies, canned food, old batteries and puzzle
 pieces -- on the front lawn and in the backyard.

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Reuters - Top Chinese actress Gong Li and former boyfriend director
 Zhang Yimou are unlikely to win any awards for their attendance at the
 top advisory body to China's parliament.

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AP - Four seniors have been suspended for spraying skunk oil in
 Springville High School. The Nebo School District board voted Wednesday
 to suspend the seniors for 90 days, which could affect their
 graduation.

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Reuters - Prostitutes in the Brazilian city of Salvador are starting up
 their own radio station.

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