Odd News from Around the World (compiled from various newswires) Posted: 3 years ago by susiesunshine
Silly & wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon.
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Daily News readers have offered their World Series tickets to Injured Soldier. Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one.
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Top 25 Censored news stories of 2007 Posted: 2 years ago by wags273
News stories from around the world that got little attention.
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Blosker, a very strange social news site [NSFW] Posted: 3 years ago by norequest
Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news.
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Police To Investigate News Corp Phone Tapping Posted: 5 months ago by pocksucket
Following the revelations about phone tapping by The News Of The World made in the Guardian, police are now investigating 3000 potential incidents perpetrated by the scandal rag. Luckily for them, most of the work will have been done in the investigation they previously suppressed.
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Developing world saved as U2 announce new album Posted: 11 months ago by Bornbad
ROME. The news that Irish rock group U2 will release a new album in March has been hailed with relief and joy throughout the developing world. Millions of grateful peasants and refugees mobbed aid workers in Africa and Asia, offering sacrifices of new crops and young lambs to lead singer Bono for gracing the world with yet another insight into poverty.
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Zac Completes His Around The World Solo Sail Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
Zac Sunderland, who left Marina del Rey 13 months ago with a bold ambition to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone, returned to complete that quest today at 10:30 a.m. Update to this post
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Tribal Facial Tattoos From Around The World(careful@work) Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Facial tattoos, usually in the news because some youngster tried to be as outrageous as possible, actually have a long tradition among tribes around the world. Find out where to find beautiful facial tattoos
and what they mean.
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Rainbow Beaches Around The World Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Beaches not only come in all shapes, sizes, and textures, they come in a virtual rainbow of colors. Most beach fans know that sand color can range from pale cream to golden to caramel, but few realize that in select places around the world, sands can be red, brown, pink, orange, gold, purple, green, and even black!
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Play The News Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Think the news is boring? Well here is a site that may change your mind. It is a community driven experience – imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Roleplaying, prediction of real world events and more are combined into a new fun learning experience.
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Man With One Leg Kills Sex Offender Dating His Ex-Wife Posted: 3 years ago by indierockcafe
From story:
"He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead."
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78 Strangest Buildings Around The World Posted: 3 months ago by ruthstark
See some odd buildings around the world with some strange concept. But these concepts makes them unique and strange buildings in the world
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Hilariously silly signs from around the world which state the obvious and are just plain daft... Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Bungling sign writing around the world have been exposed by a new book which quite literally discovered a new "sign language". From the down right obvious to the ridiculous and from South Korea to Canada, Signspotting 2 from the Lonely Planet series captures it all.
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101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Ice cream is a frozen dessert made from dairy products, such as cream (or substituted ingredients), combined with flavorings and sweeteners, such as sugar. But at some point, the world of ice cream took a turn for the worse and gave us the following abominations:
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The online virtual news Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast.
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2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race Posted: 3 years ago by dfelteau
Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses.
All teams were given the rules 24 hours in advance of the start of the race (10a EST on Friday). The rules include route requirements (such as two airports about 3000m above sea level and two airports below sea level), bonus airports and various rules such as if a plane crashes and which planes could be used in the race.
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Terrible Etiquette Mistakes From Around the World Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Politely placing the napkin on your lap and keeping your elbows off the table may be the etiquette essentials here in the good ol' USA but when it comes to hanging with friends and colleagues around the world, etiquette often takes on new meanings.
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Around the World in 174 Days Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
James Bowthorpe of London pedaled his bicycle 18,000 miles around the world in 174 days, 20 fewer days than the world record holder. He arrived back in Hyde Park to complete the journey on Saturday.
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World record for longest solar-powered flight around the Mediterranean Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
A family of adventurers who spent their summer holiday flying around the Mediterranean - including swimming across shark infested waters - have set a new world record for the longest solar-powered flight by paramotor.
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Game List for World Cyber Games 2007 Posted: 3 years ago by darkryder
Once announce the partenership whit Circuit City Stores one of the most retailers in United States, World Cyber Games has published.......
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Meet Scott -- outside of Plime, the most important person in the news biz Posted: 2 years ago by hisidea
Scott Moore is in charge of news at Yahoo! Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people.
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