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                  as of Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:45:50 GMT

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Reuters - A Bavarian village was flooded by liquid pig manure after a
 tank containing the fertilizer burst, German police said Wednesday.

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Reuters - A teenage guitarist got so carried away while bouncing up and
 down on his bed mimicking a rock star that he flew out of a third floor
 window to his death, a Singapore newspaper reported Wednesday.

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Reuters - A Florida man has confessed to bludgeoning his roommate to
 death with a sledgehammer handle and a claw hammer after an argument
 that started over an empty roll of toilet paper, authorities said
 Tuesday.

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Reuters - Hundreds of born-again Christians drop their Bibles and begin
 singing songs hailing Uganda's long-serving President Yoweri Museveni.

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Reuters - San Francisco, a leader in urban recycling, is preparing to
 enlist its canine population for a first in the United States:
 converting dog poop into energy.

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Reuters - They were five lonely deaths and only discovered because of
 the stench of decomposing bodies, but the realization that someone can
 die in their Sydney home unnoticed for months has shocked Australia's
 biggest city.

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AP - A homeless man who police say tried to take a sheep from the Little
 Rock Zoo has been arrested on numerous charges. A security guard at the
 zoo called police Tuesday evening after spotting a man carrying a trash
 can with a sheep in it, a police report said.

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Reuters - Australia launched a new A$180 million (76 million pounds)
 advertising campaign on Thursday which seeks to attract international
 tourists by swearing at them.

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AP - Whoever broke into a state probation and parole office left with
 items that can be key evidence -- urine samples of those under court
 orders not to use alcohol or illegal drugs.

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Reuters - Gladiators may have fought and died to entertain others in the
 brutality of the Roman arena but they appear to have abided by a strict
 code of conduct which avoided savage violence, forensic scientists say.

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AP - A teacher who castrated a live pig in front of her high school
 class is the target of protests by animal rights activists throughout
 the country.

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Reuters - Australia's super-fit Health Minster Tony Abbott, who was a
 champion university boxer, on Thursday laughed off being punched by a
 mental patient while visiting a hospital.

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AP - Shortly after his mate went to hog heaven, Willy the Red River
 porcine spied a new mud-pen pal in what officials are calling one of
 the oddest pairings at the Los Angeles Zoo.

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Reuters - South Korea's former spy headquarters -- where authoritarian
 rulers had opponents tortured in the 1970s and 1980s -- opened its
 doors again on Thursday, but this time as a youth hostel.

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AP - Police in northern Sydney went crocodile hunting Thursday after
 locals reported seeing one of the reptiles in a suburban waterway.

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Reuters - The tiny, distant and frozen planet Pluto, for 30 years
 believed to have just one moon, has suddenly been found to have two
 more satellites.

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