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• Pennsylvania stadium aims to please fans with urinal video games
• Rhode Island city drops fine for allegedly foul-mouthed cockatoo
• Battle rages over bones of England's Richard III
• North Korean leader Kim sings military's praises, oungum-style
• 100,000 Portuguese sign petition to keep ex-PM Socrates off TV
• Russian serial killer sentenced to life for nine murders
• Would-be thieves camped out above Toronto-area bank
• Highwire stuntman plans to cross Grand Canyon without a tether
• FBI says has identified culprits in 1990 Boston museum heist
• Man who set fire in U.S. nuclear sub gets 17-year sentence
• Leonardo proposes to TV presenter partner live on air
• Beach becomes latest clash over technology titans' property
• Pope returns to Rome hotel - to pay bill
• Vettel puts his faith in "Hungry Heidi"
• European lawmakers leave "green fairy" out of absinthe
• Sinkhole opens up in Washington and jaded humor emerges
• Champagne out, ebooks in as Britain updates inflation basket
• Israeli kids hurt by teachers' name-calling
• Let them eat cake later: Americans hosting "fitness parties"
• Big cat sanctuary to reopen to public after deadly lion attack
• Erin go bragh maybe, but no flag for Irish pub in Florida
• Woman killed by caged lion in California died suddenly of broken neck
• Experts probe why lion attacked handler at California sanctuary
• Black Sabbath guitarist pens Armenia's Eurovision song entry
• Vietnam capital to reassign obese, rude traffic cops: paper
• German flight set to take off with comet tourists
• California yacht owner sees his stolen vessel wash ashore on TV
• U.S. urges ban on drunk diplomats at UN budget debates
• Dutch police arrest Romanian woman in connection with art heist
• Young girl survives jet crash in French Alps
• Recovery effort ends for Florida man presumed dead in sinkhole
• "Slanderous" new calypso songs banned from Guyana's airwaves
• Britain's government sells French wine to pay its drinks bill
• Chok! Chok! Chok! advert shakes up mobile marketing

• "Devil's Advocate" convicted in London of being fake lawyer
• U.S. film festival cancels award to UK film after tax scam
• "Shameful" sexist Ford car ads spark outrage in India
• Harvard stripped of quiz tournament titles
• Swiss court jails "healer" for infecting 16 with HIV
• Manual to "goblinproofing" chicken coops named Oddest Book Title
• London museum cancels heavy metal gig, fearing noise damage
• FBI turns up heat in investigation of 1990 Boston art heist
• FDA shuts New Jersey bakery for sugar in "sugar free" treats
• Pope Francis trinkets sell briskly near Vatican
• Rail dig may have found London's lost "Black Death" graves
• Germany detains man trying to sell back stolen art
• "Hand of God" brings Argentina pope: Maradona
• Did Venezuela's Chavez nudge Christ to pick South American pope?
• It's a dog's life in Formula One
• New York City "cannibal cop" convicted of plot to kidnap women
• Fallen UK minister, ex-wife jailed over speeding lie
• Cannabis-smoking ascetics light up Nepal festival
• Even for sperm, there is a season
• California cat sanctuary to reopen following deadly lion attack
• Europe explores how to define the "green fairy"
• California probes killing of intern by lion in enclosure
• Lion kills worker at California wildlife sanctuary
• Long Island man faces jail for laughing too loudly in own home
• Rome exhibition takes aim at the Church as papal vote looms
• British "Batman" turns out to be Stan the delivery man
• Second sinkhole appears in Tampa area
• What puts the Swiss in a "Swiss Made" watch?
• Bible quotes on Finnish toilet paper draw church protests
• Florida home where sinkhole swallowed man is partially razed
• No sign of Florida man swallowed by sinkhole while asleep
• Lionheart's heart smelled sweet for heaven, scientists find
• Waiter! There's a giraffe in my kudu

• Going, going, gone - dodo bone up for sale in London
• WPP India unit sacks employees after sexist Ford ads
• "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada from China
• Punxsutawney Phil charged with fraud for early spring forecast
• Tunisian rapper gets jail term for calling police dogs in song
• Yoko Ono tweets against guns showing Lennon's bloody glasses
• Chinese bowl found at garage sale fetches over $2.2 million at auction
• FBI says has ID'd suspects in 1990 Boston museum heist
• Swarming cockroaches turn bus to New York into roach-mobile
• Swiss police arrest "healer" accused of infecting 16 with HIV
• Shark brought to Los Angeles for Kmart commercial dies
• Lawsuit says two-year-old boy ate used condom at Chicago McDonald's
• Italian bishops thank God for wrong pope
• Putin urges Soviet-style fitness program, with actor Seagal
• Bird brains can crack nut trading game with self-control: study
• Irish flag flies again at Florida pub as town suspends ban
• Baseball-sized snail destroyed in Australia to protect crops
• China's heavy-handed censors will now have to endure Ai Weiwei's heavy metal
• California cat sanctuary where worker was killed reopens to public
• Lion slipped out of holding pen before killing sanctuary worker
• Norway teacher fired after children taste her blood
• New York mother arraigned for hiring strippers for teen's party
• "Snowquester" was "Noquester" in Washington
• Till taxes do us part: Chinese divorce to skip property tax
• Missing Soviet war veteran lives as healer in Afghanistan
• Washington state lawmaker backpedals after saying cyclists pollute by breathing
• Demolition continues at scene of missing Florida sinkhole victim
• Australian miners fired for dancing the Harlem Shake underground
• Holy smokes! "Batman" nabs suspect for British police
• Florida home demolished where sinkhole swallowed sleeping man
• Florida man feared dead after sinkhole swallows him
• FAA looking into safety of sky-high Harlem Shake dance
• Chok! Chok! Chok! ad shakes up mobile marketing