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    Policemen steal ambassador's phone (Reuters)

Reuters - Two Bulgarian border policemen caught red-handed after
 stealing a mobile telephone belonging to U.S. ambassador John Beyrle
 could face up to 10 years in prison, officials said Monday.

    Half-century in mental asylum a mistake.. (Reuters)

Reuters - More than half-a-century ago, Machal Lalung was thought to be
 insane and sent to a mental asylum in India's remote northeast.

    U.S. rejects Katrina meals, offers them to others (Reuters)

Reuters - The United States on Friday offered needy countries more than
 330,000 packaged meals donated by Britain to feed Hurricane Katrina
 victims but rejected due to a U.S. ban on British beef.

    Birds battle buttocks, bike for top UK art prize (Reuters)

Reuters - A pink hummingbird battled with a weather-beaten shed Monday
 for the Turner prize, one of the world's most contentious art awards,
 but they face stiff competition from a pair of pallid buttocks.

    Jobs abound in New Orleans, housing is obstacle (Reuters)

Reuters - If you were seeking work in New Orleans in the months before
 Hurricane Katrina hit, chances are you had to fight to get an
 employer's attention. Now all you need to do is show up and perhaps
 pass a drug test.

    Sex workers want rights, end to discrimination (Reuters)

Reuters - European sex workers called for their profession to be
 recognized as work Monday, saying they deserved the same social rights
 as other employees.

    New Orleans 'mourners' bid adieu to Katrina (Reuters)

Reuters - NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) An impromptu entourage of "mourners"
 dressed in costume marched through New Orleans's French Quarter on
 Sunday in a jazz infused, alcohol-laced mock funeral procession for
 Hurricane Katrina.

    After Burger King Crash, Man Parks, Eats (AP)

AP - A man whose car ran into the front entry of a fast-food restaurant
 backed away, parked and went in for breakfast, officials say.

    And now the first finishing school -- for men (Reuters)

Reuters - At what is being billed as the world's first finishing school
 for gentlemen, learning how to set the cutlery can be just as tricky as
 the fly fishing.

    Mole Worn by Alleged Robber Smears (AP)

AP - Could a man wearing a black wig, sunglasses and a fake mole on his
 cheek really be doing a corporate audit on a Wednesday night?

    N.Korean women get green light to rule the roads (Reuters)

Reuters - There are no traffic lights in Pyongyang, but defy the orders
 of the mini-skirted women wardens at your own peril.

    Lazy British Police Dog Relieved of Duties (AP)

AP - Buster the German Shepherd could have had a great career as a
 British police dog had it not been for one flaw: his complete lack of
 interest in fighting crime.

    Pampered pets -- fashion victims with painted nails (Reuters)

Reuters - Fed up with pets that look scruffy, dirty or straggly?

    Stewardess Calls in Threat to Get Day Off (AP)

AP - A SriLankan Airlines stewardess called in a bomb threat because she
 wanted a day off, a newspaper reported Sunday.

    Malta robbers snatch woman's purse, then return it (Reuters)

Reuters - Two hooded gunmen who robbed a pharmacy returned an elderly
 woman's purse after she told them it contained the only money she had
 to buy medicine, Maltese newspapers reported on Tuesday.

    Moose Wandering Across South Dakota (AP)

AP - Seeing a wandering moose isn't too unusual -- unless you live in
 the rolling farm country of southeastern South Dakota.

    Sex workers want rights, end to discrimination (Reuters)

Reuters - European sex workers called for their profession to be
 recognised as work Monday, saying they deserved the same social rights
 as other employees.

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