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A German belly dancer has been awarded

SANTA FE — New Mexico has taken its fight against drunken driving to men’s restrooms around the state.
The state has ordered 500 talking urinal cakes that will deliver a recorded anti-DWI message to bar and restaurant patrons who make one last pit stop before getting behind the wheel.
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Transforming the rough craft of lobstering into a gentle art, a New Hampshire outfit has persuaded Whole Foods Market to waive its ban on live lobster sales at a new store opening next week in Portland, Maine.
For Whole Foods, an upscale grocery chain promising "animal compassionate" foods, the decision marks yet another effort to provide [...]

ONTARIO, N.Y., Jan. 26, 2007
(AP) It’s not your typical church breakfast. An event billed as "Porn and Pancakes" is being hosted by a church in rural upstate New York.
The breakfast discussion on the pornography industry in America is planned next month at the Living Word Assembly of God Church [...]

BARNSTABLE — Two Mashpee women arraigned on charges of threatening the owner of a pit bull who found the animal’s severed head on her car are facing additional charges.
Just hours after Rebecca Clancy and Kelly Hayden were released on bail Thursday on charges of intimidating a witness, a Falmouth District Court magistrate issued forgery and [...]

Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.
When you scratch the front of the stamps, it smells of the popular chinese dish and when the back of the stamp is licked it tastes of the dish too.
The stamps are on sale in China ahead of their [...]

WASHINGTON – The obesity epidemic has spread to man’s best friend, and so many dogs are getting fat that the government stepped in Friday by approving the first doggie diet pill.
The Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of Slentrol, a prescription drug that can suppress Fido’s appetite while also blocking the absorption of fat [...]

Just when you thought the Iranian leadership could stoop no further: A top advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed in an interview with Iranian website Baztab that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s parents were both Jewish and that Hitler himself was one of the founders of the State of Israel.
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BEIJING, Dec. 18 — A Hollywood stuntman who worked on one of the "Men in Black" films suffered serious injuries in Shanghai on Saturday when he fell off a moving car while trying to jump through a ring of fire.
Oldrich Svarousky, 48, a member of the Hollywood-based Filmka stunt group, was [...]

FUSHUN, China — Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, reaches in to retrieve objects from the stomach of a sick dolphin at an aquarium in Fushun, in China’s northern Liaoning province. Bao, whose arms measure more than a meter in length, was called in by the aquarium after experts failed to surgically remove unidentified objects [...]

Non-virgin brides face ‘white dress fines’
A Romanian priest says he wants women to pay a ‘white dress fine’ if they are not virgins when they marry.Father Petrica Bratu, 37, from Valea Sarii says he hopes the fines will stop couples living in sin.
The fines will range between