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• Tea cozies and pencil sharpening vye for oddest book title award
• "Keep your so-called workers," U.S. boss tells France
• Florida man charged with harassing manatee after posting photos
• Mexican duo fined for obscene gestures in celebrations
• Belgian boar hunters come up short in mass cull effort
• Russia asks: How do you stop space objects hitting Earth?
• Aquarium fights to get disabled turtle swimming again
• Security experts say zombie TV warning exposes flaws
• Zombie hoax blamed on lax passwords by U.S. broadcasters
• That "zombie apocalypse" warning in Montana? It was fake
• Intrepid Tokyo diners delight in dirt degustation
• Symbol of French Republic defaced in art attack
• German dumpster divers get connected to wage war on food waste
• South African skateboarder faces dangerous driving arrest
• Rubber chickens, diapers suggested for China's holiday travel
• Rio unleashes "pee patrols" to clean up Carnival
• "Cookie Monster" relinquishes stolen gold biscuit
• Amusement park planned in Pakistan town where bin Laden lived
• Ahmadinejad says he is ready to be first Iranian in space
• Hong Kong aims at smugglers in bid to stop run on baby formula milk
• Russian "sleeping judge" resigns after video exposé
• "Nappy" hunters leave Norwegian baby bottoms bare
• France to turn off office and shop lights at night
• Japanese husbands shout their love for wives in public
• Vienna museum invites nudists to see "Naked Men"
• At Downsize Fitness gyms, the slender need not apply
• Obama the fly swatter strikes again
• "Disrespectful" IKEA ad touches nerve with Thai transsexuals
• Racy Victorian divorces online at genealogy website
• Cheese fire causes traffic meltdown in Norway tunnel
• Library prank sends Armstrong books to fiction section
• Brazil judge removes "Fifty Shades of Grey" from town's shops
• Canada put "wrong" maple leaf on new Canadian dollar 20 bill: expert
• -UPDATE 1-Notre Dame hoax tip was emailed - Deadspin.com editor

• Detroit named most miserable U.S. city in Forbes ranking
• Britain to India: Diamond in royal crown is ours
• Mike the fearless brown bear shot by Swiss gamekeepers
• Texas woman has two sets of identical twins in one day
• Naked men turn out to see..."Naked Men"
• Norway plans 12-hour prime-time TV show of a fireplace
• Ancient asteroid strike in Australia "changed face of earth"
• Broadcasters blame zombie hack on easy passwords
• One-man bank keeps German village business running
• NASA's "Mohawk Guy" has prime seat at State of the Union address
• Fine dining meets fast food at one Aussie McDonald's
• Singing Korean airmen score a hit with love, snow and "Les Mis"
• Hong Kong snake kings a dying breed
• Russian alcohol crackdown topples monument to vodka
• Zacky Farms buyer cries foul over sale of turkeys
• German labor office sends teen to work in brothel
• Big Mac prices show which euro zone states best at belt-tightening
• Two California students lose fingers in tug-of-war
• Portugal bans Olympic windsurfer over secret pregnancy
• Austrian EU lawmaker investigated over "elephant" expenses
• Serbia PM orders inquiry into "Basic Instinct" fake TV interview
• Naples' buses stop as operator runs out of fuel
• China parliament: no flowers, gifts and keep speeches short
• New Mexico woman held for locking girl in a cage: police
• Florida man accused of fraud after name change in 'act of love'
• Dung beetles look to the stars
• German court rules internet "essential"
• Belgian trainee teachers fail in basic general knowledge
• Berkshire Hathaway adds 5k race to sugar-filled weekend
• Rotten eggs stench reaches UK after French gas leak
• Gambia's public sector to have 4-day working week
• Cheesecake Factory pasta on list of caloric "food porn"
• With an air kiss or empty hug, Te'oing is Twitter craze

• Crisis forces Greeks to skimp on weddings, funerals
• Washington state baristas arrested for stripping at drive-thru
• Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city
• Fake horse racing blog dodges Italy's election polls blackout
• Burger King takes down Twitter account after hack attack
• Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut returns on show
• Encana apologizes for executive's cursing on conference call
• Captain Cook's pistol fetches $227,000 at auction
• Emu heist baffles Australian wildlife park
• Don't say nay to horsemeat: French eaters
• Trump may have trouble collecting on $5 million orangutan bet
• Canadian prime minister moonlights as author with ice hockey book
• German bin-divers get connected to wage war on food waste
• Canadian pens erotic answer to "Fifty Shades" as a dare
• Zacky Farms buyer cries foul over sale of turkey inventory
• Oops! Old habits die hard for Palestinian Abbas
• Athens scrap dealer defies taboos in crisis-hit Greece
• Two students lose fingers in tug-of-war at California high school
• German Catholic Church may back some "morning-after pills"
• Earl Grey descendants sell English tea to China
• German biscuit-maker appeals to "Cookie Monster" thief
• Chinese millionaire fights pollution with thin air
• Nudists lose bid to block San Francisco ban on baring all
• Florida man's license restored as state drops fraud allegation
• Florida man accused of fraud after name change in "act of love"
• South Africa police join hunt for 10,000 escaped crocodiles
• Thousands of crocodiles on the loose after South Africa floods
• Hundreds of animals removed from Ohio man's house
• Smallest house in Brussels up for auction
• Subway given sandwich course in measuring feet and inches down under
• Notre Dame football star says he was not in on hoax - ESPN
• Notre Dame hoax tip was emailed: Deadspin.com editor
• Cleaner not at fault for Swedish train crash-prosecutors