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Man kills family to spare them shame of financial ruin
VIENNA, Austria - Austrian police discovered the bodies of five people Wednesday after a man turned up at a Vienna police station saying he killed his family to spare them the shame of his financial ruin.
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VIENNA, Austria - Austrian police discovered the bodies of five people Wednesday after a man turned up at a Vienna police station saying he killed his family to spare them the shame of his financial ruin.
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"Snake man" slithers out of Austrian prison cell
Reuters - A man has escaped from his Austrian jailcell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police saidon Wednesday.
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Reuters - A man has escaped from his Austrian jailcell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police saidon Wednesday.
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Forgotten tot left behind at Vancouver airport
AP - An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.
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AP - An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.
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'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks
HOLYHEAD, Wales (AP) -- A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday....
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HOLYHEAD, Wales (AP) -- A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday....
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Canadian zoo investigates puzzling stingray deaths
Reuters - Officials at the Calgary Zooremained baffled on Tuesday as they tried to puzzle out justwhy 34 of their stingrays suddenly died.
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Reuters - Officials at the Calgary Zooremained baffled on Tuesday as they tried to puzzle out justwhy 34 of their stingrays suddenly died.
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Shrimp can see beyond the rainbow
Reuters - A giant shrimp living on Australia'sGreat Barrier Reef can see a world beyond the rainbow that isinvisible to other animals, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Reuters - A giant shrimp living on Australia'sGreat Barrier Reef can see a world beyond the rainbow that isinvisible to other animals, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK
Reuters - The Vatican's chief astronomersays there is no conflict between believing in God and in thepossibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolvedthan humans.
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Reuters - The Vatican's chief astronomersays there is no conflict between believing in God and in thepossibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolvedthan humans.
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Green aliens and UFOs said to visit UKReuters - Aliens from outer space have beenvisiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after thefilm Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secretfiles collating reports by members of the public.
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Student protests school no-hugging rule
MOLALLA, Ore., May 14 (UPI) -- An Oregon middle-school student has challenged her principal's no-hugging rule.
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MOLALLA, Ore., May 14 (UPI) -- An Oregon middle-school student has challenged her principal's no-hugging rule.
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'Gas can' turns out to hold orange juice
MELBOURNE, Fla., May 14 (UPI) -- Police in Melbourne, Fla., went after a man seen heading into the woods Tuesday with a gas can that proved to hold only orange juice.
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MELBOURNE, Fla., May 14 (UPI) -- Police in Melbourne, Fla., went after a man seen heading into the woods Tuesday with a gas can that proved to hold only orange juice.
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