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Dutch cops to look after animal welfare

22:50 27/04/2011

Some 500 police officers will be assigned to look after animal welfare in The Netherlands, local media reported on Wednesday.

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Tunnel under prison wall in Afghanistan sees 500 inmates escape
08:45 25/04/2011
Some 500 inmates made a mass prison break via a hand-dug tunnel from a penitentiary in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar early on Monday, regional deputy police chief Nasrallah Yusufzai said.
Mice ground three Slovenian Air Force training planes
00:58 24/04/2011
Mice have seriously damaged three Pilatus PC-9 training planes of the Slovenian Air Foce.
Chinese writer to undergo plastic surgery to become Shakespeare
10:31 21/04/2011
A Chinese writer is planning to spend $153,000 on plastic surgery to look like British playwright William Shakespeare, Shanghai Daily reported on its website on Thursday.
Siberian inmates escape on horseback, caught in ditch
09:36 15/04/2011
Police in Siberia have caught two inmates who broke out of jail on horseback and then stole a car, however, later wrecked it during their getaway.
German politician suspected of stealing 200 rolls of toilet paper
20:06 13/04/2011
A politician from Stralsund, northern Germany, was caught red-handed stealing toilet paper from the men's bathroom in the local city hall, Ostsee Zeitung newspaper said on its website.
U.A.E. man beats up imam for refusing to perform exorcism
04:16 30/03/2011
An imam of a mosque in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, was beaten up by a local man for refusing to chase away an evil spirit from his body.
Vagrant cobra from New York zoo 'found' on Twitter
20:30 29/03/2011
A 20-inch-long venomous Egyptian cobra, which disappeared from the Bronx Zoo earlier, suddenly showed up on Twitter attracting thousands of fans.
Biologist from central Russia shelters cat with five ears
18:52 29/03/2011
A biologist from Voronezh found a cat with five ears in the street and brought it home to study and perhaps breed.
Moscow female jury to chose 'best fiance' among Russian guys
17:22 23/03/2011
A jury consisting of female Muscovites will choose on Friday Russia's "best fiance" among 10 men representing different regions of the country, the administration of one of Moscow's districts said.
Huge cobra crushed by dozer undergoes life-saving surgery in India
14:42 22/03/2011
Veterinarians in southern India conducted a two-hour life-saving surgery on a 5.5-foot cobra, Times of India said on Tuesday.
Fake police steal BMW from Chinese student in Moscow
10:04 22/03/2011
Two unidentified thieves dressed as policemen have effortlessly deprived a 40-year-old Chinese student of his BMW -3 car in western Moscow, a police source said on Tuesday.
Russians 'nearly sink' while crossing Atlantic on inflatable vessel
15:28 15/03/2011
A Russian expedition crossing the Indian and Atlantic oceans on an inflatable trimaran in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record nearly sank when their multi-hulled vessel was damaged.
'Sex-bomb' causes havoc at post office in northwest Russia
21:26 14/03/2011
Police in the northwest Russian republic of Karelia, who arrived at a local post office on Monday to check a report of a suspicious parcel, found a vibrator instead of a bomb.1
Hobbit Frodo promotes labor unions in Russia's Far East
09:49 11/03/2011
A student in Russia's Far East has won a labor union advertising competition with a cartoon starring characters from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the film version of the J.R. Tolkien classic.
Moscow nightclub shrugs off warnings, throws 'Putin Party' (Update 1)
13:53 07/03/2011
The Russian government is aware that a Moscow nightclub has held an event entitled "Putin Party. I want the Prime Minister," but is against the club's use of Putin's name, the prime minister's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said on Monday.
Moscow nightclub shrugs off warnings, throws 'Putin Party'
12:17 07/03/2011
A Moscow nightclub has held an event entitled "Putin Party. I want the Prime Minister" regardless of earlier warnings by the prime minister's press secretary that the government would seek legal advice on the possible illegal use of Putin's name.
Egyptian names daughter 'Facebook' after revolution
15:21 21/02/2011
An Egyptian man named his newborn daughter "Facebook" in honor of the role the social network played in ousting President Hosni Mubarak, a local newspaper, Al-Ahram, reported on Monday.
Kazakh armed forces to draft celebrities in new reality show
10:19 15/02/2011
The Kazakh Defense Ministry and national TV have launched a televised project in which politicians, athletes and celebrities will be drafted into the armed forces.
Berlusconi says women smarter than men
13:02 14/02/2011
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said he considers women smarter and more responsible than men.

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