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Reuters - Researchers have come up with a novel way to keep
 long-distance lovers in touch -- high-tech wine glasses that glow
 warmly however far apart the pining couple are.

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Reuters - Twenty-four people disappeared from cruise ships between 2003
 and 2005 and 178 passengers reported being sexually assaulted, a
 congressional panel heard Tuesday.

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Reuters - Flying a kite in Pakistan is a dangerous pastime.

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Reuters - For all those tired of silly love songs, how about the new
 North Korean hit tune, "A girl innovator dashing like a steed."

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Reuters - Two men have pleaded guilty to conspiring to secretly
 videotape Michael Jackson while the pop star flew on a private jet to
 surrender to child sex abuse charges in 2003.

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Reuters - Advertisements targeting China's hugely popular state
 television weather reports are angering viewers, an adviser to China's
 parliament was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

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AP - A couple who claim they were bitten by bedbugs while staying at a
 Catskills resort in July returned for another stay later that month,
 according to the hotel's lawyer.

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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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AP - Patrick Deuel, who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds, has lost
 another 81 pounds in a surgery that removed a mass of fat and skin
 hanging from his midsection.

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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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AP - A rare $10,000 bill is getting a new home. The bill -- one of 15
 large-denomination bills at a Chase Bank branch in Green Bay -- was
 shipped to the bank's corporate archives in New York for safe keeping.

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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 - After a five-year hiatus, the Sisters of St. Walburg Monastery in
 Villa Hills are ready to show whether they are superior spellers.

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Reuters - Canada's wealthiest citizens fear that their children will
 become lazy and squander the money they've earned, according to a study
 released this week.

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AP - An argument over toilet paper overflowed into a fight, sending one
 motel maid to the hospital and another to jail.

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Reuters - It is praised for its culinary and health properties by any
 cook worth his salt, but long before olive oil made it into the
 Mediterranean diet Cypriots used it as fuel to melt copper,
 archaeologists say.

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