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Buy a whole New Zealand town for the price of a nice house

If you've ever dreamt of owning your own village, you're in luck.

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Meet Oscar, the bionic cat

A cat whose back legs were chopped off in a farming accident has been given a new bionic pair, in a ground-breaking feline first in Britain.

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Gallery: Meet Kanellos, the Greek protest dog

Police using 'decoy Jews' to catch anti-Semitic attackers

Dutch police are to use "decoy Jews," by dressing law enforcers in Jewish religious dress such as skullcaps, in an effort to catch anti-Semitic attackers. Lodewijk Asscher, Amsterdam's mayor, has ordered the new decoy strategy to cut the number of...

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New hospital gown cuts down on breezy behinds

Researchers from the University of Montreal say they have come up with a new hospital gown that ensures only doctors and nurses get to see a what patients have been trying to keep hidden for years.

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'French Hannibal Lecter' tells how he ate lung

"Hannibal Lecter" said Wednesday a sexual urge drove him to kill his cellmate and "curiosity" about the taste of human flesh led him to cook and eat a lung he ripped out of the corpse.

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Chihuahua inherits millions

It is anything but a dog's life for Conchita, a beloved Chihuahua whose eccentric owner bequeathed her a $3-million US trust fund -- a move now being contested by the late heiress's only son, local media reported.

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A couple uses a hammer to smash their wedding ring to symbolise the end of their eight-year marriage during a "divorce ceremony" in Tokyo June 20, 2010, a day before they file for divorce.

Couples say 'I do' in divorce ceremony

With divorce on the rise in Japan, some couples are choosing to celebrate the end of an unhappy marriage by saying "I do" for a final time at a divorce ceremony before friends and family.

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Penis protest rises to greet Russian economic forum

Radical Russian artists painted a giant protest penis on a drawbridge in central St. Petersburg ahead of a meeting that is the Russian answer to the World Economic Forum, police said on Wednesday.

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