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    Rails missing; it's hard to keep track... (Reuters)

Reuters - Thieves have dismantled and carted away some 5 kms (3 miles)
 of disused rail track close to the German town of Weimar, railway
 operator Deutsche Bahn said on Friday.

    Got that synching feeling? Read my lips... (Reuters)

Reuters - After an infamous tiff between Elton John and Madonna over
 lip-synching, Britain's Musicians' Union has called on performers to
 come clean -- audiences should be told if they are miming rather than
 singing.

    Don't let the bed-bugs bite? Try stopping them! (Reuters)

Reuters - Australia is suffering a bed-bug epidemic with the tourism
 industry losing an estimated A$100 million (US$75 million) a year
 because of the blood-sucking insects, according to a new entomology
 study.

    Welcome or not, cell phones set for subway (Reuters)

Reuters - One of life's ironic oases of solitude -- the peace people
 find amid the roar of a New York City subway -- could soon be gone.

    Aged Irish beef gets the chop (Reuters)

Reuters - Twenty-year-old Irish beef which may have been making its way
 to the processed food industry has been impounded in Bulgaria, which is
 toughening up food safety standards under pressure from the European
 Union.

    Dinosaur crests: honk if you like me (Reuters)

Reuters - Duckbilled dinosaurs of about 90 million years ago had huge
 crests with complex nasal passages, and used them to honk sexual and
 social messages, according to a new study in the journal Paleobiology.

    Teen investigated for homework threat to Bush (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. Secret Service on Thursday said it was investigating
 a Rhode Island student who wrote a rambling essay advocating violence
 against U.S. President George W. Bush and major U.S. corporations.

    Whale soul for sale -- one tragic owner (Reuters)

Reuters - It used to be a practice confined to pacts with the devil, but
 now an anonymous vendor in America is offering to sell the soul of the
 London whale.

    Man Downs 173 Chicken Wings to Win Contest (AP)

AP - A 22-year-old from San Jose, Calif., won Wing Bowl on Friday by
 setting a new record at the annual chicken wing-eating contest. Joey
 Chestnut ate 173 wings to take the title and top prize, a 2006 Suzuki
 Grand Vitara.

    Film director Tamahori arrested on sex charge (Reuters)

Reuters - New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori, whose films include
 the James Bond hit "Die Another Day," has been arrested on a sex charge
 while wearing a woman's dress and a wig, officials said on Friday.

    Sailor Gets Angry Reply to Bottle Message (AP)

AP - A sailor who sent a message out to sea in a bottle says he received
 a reply from England -- accusing him of littering. "I kind of felt like
 no good deed goes unpunished," Harvey Bennett, 55, told the East
 Hampton Star.

    Portrait inflation? 'Greenspan' fetches $150,400 (Reuters)

Reuters - It's not a Picasso, but for the price you'd have been able to
 buy one.

    Man Charged With Taking Mom's Morphine (AP)

AP - A Martha's Vineyard man is charged with taking morphine from his
 mother's intravenous drip minutes after she died.

    U.S. paper grapples with credit card blunder (Reuters)

Reuters - The Boston Globe has been swamped by nearly 50,000 telephone
 calls from worried readers since it accidentally delivered hundreds of
 thousands of subscribers' credit card numbers with its newspapers, the
 paper said on Friday.

    Man Said to Offer Uniformed Deputy Cocaine (AP)

AP - Deputy Ed Johnson was in uniform. He was also sitting in his marked
 patrol car. So he was a bit surprised when a man approached Friday and
 allegedly offered to sell him some cocaine.

    Alpine ice man may have been childless outcast (Reuters)

Reuters - A Stone Age man found frozen in the Alps some 5,300 years
 after he was murdered under mysterious circumstances may have been a
 childless social outcast, a new study showed.

    Notorious Bad Driver Gets Year in Prison (AP)

AP - A man convicted more than 40 times of drunken driving or driving
 without a valid license has been sentenced to a year in jail, a day
 after his arrest on yet another driving charge.

    Whale soul for sale -- one tragic owner (Reuters)

Reuters - It used to be a practice confined to pacts with the devil, but
 now an anonymous vendor in America is attempting to sell the soul of
 the London whale.

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