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[21 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
92-year-old arrested for coke

A 92-year-old woman was arrested for smuggling coke into Spain. Along with her was a 44-year-old female who was also arrested for the same charges.

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[12 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
2009 Nobel Prize Winners

The list of 2009 Nobel Prize winners is now complete with Monday’s announcement of Nobel Prize for Economics.Two ceremonies will be conducted in Stockholm and Oslo on December 10 to award the Prizes to the winners of this years Nobel.

Here’s 2009 Nobel Prize Winners…

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[10 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Chinese Company Buys Hummer Brand from General Motors

“The Hummer brand is synonymous with adventure, freedom and exhilaration, and we plan to continue that heritage by investing in the business, allowing Hummer to innovate and grow in exciting new ways under the leadership and continuity of its current management team,” Yang Yi, the chief executive of Tengzhong, said in a statement released by GM.

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[9 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

United States President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo to accept the award.

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[8 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Al Qaeda leader urges Uighurs to launch jihad against China

A high-ranking al Qaeda official has called for a holy war against China in response to what he says is the Chinese government’s oppression of the Uighurs—the ethnic minority group who live primarily in the northwest region of Xinjiang.

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[8 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel Prize for literature

Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born German writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature Thursday.

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[7 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Teacup Pigs: The latest pet craze in England

In England there is a pet that has become a sensation. I’m talking about those miniature pot-belly pigs also known as tea cup pigs.

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[5 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Italian chemist reproduces Shroud of Turin

An Italian professor of organic chemistry says he has created a fake Shroud of Turin that indicates the supposed burial cloth of Jesus Christ was also faked.

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[5 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
McDonald’s to open branch at the Louvre

France is now the largest McDonald’s market outside of the U.S., but the French are upset over the fast-food giant’s plan of putting up a burger outlet inside Mona Lisa’s lair: the Louvre.

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[4 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Japan’s ex-finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa found dead

Shoichi Nakagawa, the former Japanese finance minister who resigned from his post after appearing drunk on TV earlier this year, has been found dead.

Odd + Weird, World News »

[3 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Face-mask Convertible Bra

Elena Bodnar won the Ig Nobel in public health for designing a lacy bra that can be converted into a pair of emergency HEPA-filter gas masks.

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