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    City tackles titillating mannequins (Reuters)

Reuters - Police in northeastern Iran are launching a new morality drive
 by confiscating alluring mannequins from boutiques and clothes stalls
 in the bazaar, authorities in the city of Bojnourd said Monday.

    Firefighters capture python in shop (Reuters)

Reuters - A dozen French firefighters were called in to cut their way to
 a 10-foot-long python hiding a shop just outside Paris, an official
 said Sunday.

    They need to be told this? (Reuters)

Reuters - An exclusive California beach enclave has raised eyebrows by
 passing out tsunami safety brochures that warn residents, in capital
 letters, that they should never try to surf one.

    Seal bites off woman's nose (Reuters)

Reuters - A seal bit off a South African woman's nose after she tried to
 help it back into the sea, an official said Monday.

    Iranian kills woman when she proposes (Reuters)

Reuters - A 52-year-old Iranian has been sentenced to death for killing
 his 70-year-old lover when she asked to marry him, a newspaper reported
 Monday.

    Late pope's Ford Escort sells for $680,000 (Reuters)

Reuters - The only car the late Pope John Paul II ever owned sold at
 auction for $680,000 on Saturday to a Houston attorney and car
 collector.

    Police seize lion after neighbors' uproar (Reuters)

Reuters - Police seized a lion in poor health from a private home in Rio
 de Janeiro, Brazil, after scared neighbors squawked about the beast's
 roar, police said on Friday.

    Woman in Witch Costume Robs Wash. Bank (AP)

AP - A woman dressed as a witch robbed a bank and vanished in the smoke
 of an exploding security dye pack, then apparently reappeared in street
 clothes and held up another bank, police said.

    China firm in $450 bln Exxon bid run from small flat (Reuters)

Reuters - The firm behind a $450 billion (254 billion pounds) bid for
 the world's top oil company is run from an $150-a-month apartment in
 the outskirts of the Chinese capital.

    Woman Finds Prom Dress 33 Years Later (AP)

AP - Marlene Wyatt went to a second-hand store to buy a Halloween
 costume last week. What she found could be just as scary. The prom
 dress she had made 33 years ago.

    Greenpeace to pay fine for damaging Philippine reef (Reuters)

Reuters - Greenpeace said on Tuesday it will pay nearly $7,000 in
 damages after the environmental group's flagship, the Rainbow Warrior
 II, hit a coral reef at a world heritage site in the southern
 Philippines.

    Electrocuted Squirrel Starts Grass Fire (AP)

AP - An electric lineman believes a squirrel started a grass fire Monday
 after the critter was electrocuted and fell from a power line onto
 parched ground.

    Pizza parlour burglar gets away with dough (Reuters)

Reuters - A pizza parlour burglar who took the time to bake himself a
 large pepperoni to go beat it when the overnight crew arrived but still
 got away with plenty of dough, police said.

    Woman Gets Donkey for Her 50th Birthday (AP)

AP - Former attorney general and governor candidate Heidi Heitkamp, a
 well-known Democrat, got a surprise birthday president from her brother
 that fits her politics, though maybe not her yard.

    Hackers use bird flu emails to hijack computers (Reuters)

Reuters - Computer hackers are exploiting fears over bird flu by
 releasing a computer virus attached to an email passing itself off as
 containing avian flu information, warned Spainish computer firm Panda
 Software.

    Dutch Witches Get Tax Break for Studies (AP)

AP - Dutch witches are getting a tax break. A court has ruled that the
 cost of witchcraft lessons can be taken as a tax deduction.

    City tackles titillating mannequins (Reuters)

Reuters - Police in northeastern Iran are launching a new morality drive
 by confiscating alluring mannequins from boutiques and clothes stalls
 in the bazaar, authorities in the city of Bojnourd said on Monday.

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