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Reuters - A German farmer confessed to feeding the corpse of an elderly
 family friend to his pigs and then stealing from his bank account,
 police said Monday.

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Reuters - More than 100 South American thieves have descended on Hong
 Kong to target the city's annual jewelry show, the South China Morning
 Post Tuesday quoted a police source as saying.

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Reuters - A 22-year-old Californian man who received oral sex from a
 sixteen-year-old girl should not be forced to register for life as a
 sex offender, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

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Reuters - Half of all malfunctioning products that are returned stores
 by consumers work just fine, if only the customer knew how to operate
 the device, a scientist said on Monday.

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Reuters - Ian Brookes is trying to rescue the zoozoo from extinction.

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Reuters - Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at
 Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can
 communicate with people -- by glowing when it needs water.

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Reuters - A drunken hearse driver has been arrested in the western
 German town of Krefeld after biting a police officer taking him in for
 an alcohol test, police said on Monday.

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Reuters - Two prosthetic legs stolen from a 16-year-old California girl
 have mysteriously turned up in her mother's van, the second time in
 three months that an artificial limb belonging to the teen has been
 taken and then returned, police said on Friday.

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Reuters - It's what you don't see the stars wearing at the Oscars that
 really provides the va-va-voom on the red carpet.

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Reuters - Singapore Monday unveiled an audacious plan to build a
 helix-shaped bridge that will link a massive new tourist development,
 including a giant Ferris wheel and casino complex on reclaimed land.

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AP - A 75-year-old woman accused of robbing a bank with an unloaded
 pistol was arrested after a tow truck driver blocked her in after a
 short chase, police said.

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Reuters - Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at
 Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can
 communicate with people -- by glowing when it needs water.

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AP - Bars and nightclubs in London and other British cities have begun
 using vending machines that sell sex toys such as mini vibrators.

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Reuters - Chinese delegates tired from walking through the vast Great
 Hall of the People during the ongoing session of parliament may want to
 check in with colleague Zhang Liyong, China's so-called "foot massage
 secretary".

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AP - Sturdier toilets may be on their way in Australia to cope with the
 country's increasingly obese population.

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AP - Like the woman who inspired their creation, Runaway Bride
 bobblehead dolls disappeared quickly during a sports promotion in her
 hometown.

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Reuters - A German farmer confessed to feeding the corpse of an elderly
 family friend to his pigs and then stealing from his bank account,
 police said on Monday.

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AP - Hood College is reviewing its homecoming rules after a lesbian was
 crowned king, a college official says.

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Reuters - Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by
 consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how
 to operate the devices, a scientist said on Monday.

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