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The German husband of ailing 93-year-old Hollywood actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor said he wanted to preserve her body by plastination after she dies, the Bild newspaper reported.
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A retired Chinese coal miner has found an underground solution to the country's sky-high housing costs, by carving out a new home beneath the shack he lives in, state media reported.
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Hundreds of police and officials in Japan have been deployed to catch a band of monkeys responsible for attacking more than 60 people.
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A New Zealand pub has been painstakingly moved 40 metres up an Auckland hill to make way for a road tunnel.
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Hundreds are expected at an outback Queensland town for its International Yabby Races.
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Police charge the man known as the French Spiderman after he climbs to the top of a skyscraper in Sydney.
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A horse from South Australia has won the Betoota Cup at the town's race meeting in far south-west Queensland.
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A toilet belonging to Beatles legend John Lennon sold at auction in Liverpool on Saturday for 9,500 pounds ($16,400) - nearly 10 times its guide price, organisers said.
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Airport customs in Thailand have found a two-month-old tiger stashed in a bag which was checked in for an international passenger flight, authorities say.
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A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to burning down his family home after his mother threw away some of his favourite robot toys.
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Star Wars creator George Lucas has filed a $US5 million trademark lawsuit against a company marketing a technology that allows users to control computer applications with their minds.
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A major Japanese airport has been forced to close for hours after the pilot of a small plane forgot to lower his landing gear while touching down.
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Ambulance officers got more than they bargained for during a rescue at Millfield near Cessnock, in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
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The southern New South Wales town of Moama is changing its name to Motown in November as part of the Movember fundraiser.
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An enormous saltwater crocodile named Harry has picked Julia Gillard as the winner of the federal election in a snap poll.
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A pair of marijuana growers in western Canada appear to have been using bears to protect their illegal crop, but the well-fed animals proved to be a bit lax in their guard duties, police say.
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The brightly coloured plastic vuvuzela has achieved its own form of immortality by being included in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English.
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Rocker Nick Cave has been voted the musician Australians would most like to see installed as prime minister.
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A saltwater crocodile named Harry will try to pick the winner of the federal election in Darwin this afternoon.
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Authorities in southern Sudan have unveiled an $11 billion plan to rebuild the region's cities in the shapes of animals and fruit.
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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler may be American Idol-bound, but he has taken another tumble - this time in Toronto.
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A bull leapt out of the arena at a bullring in northern Spain and charged into a crowd of terrified spectators, injuring some 30 people, Spanish media said.
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Pilots in Scottish airspace have been warned of the potential danger posed by a vulture which flew off from a public display and failed to return, air traffic controllers said on Wednesday.
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A giant marriage-wrecking carp that eluded fishermen in Britain for decades has been found dead.
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A little-known folk singer who worried that financial success might ruin his songwriting skills has received a letter of advice from John Lennon 34 years after it was sent.
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