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Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary got a rude welcome in Brussels on Thursday when he received two cream pies to the face while standing next...
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A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes has been pulled “alive and wriggling” from a woman’s brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors...
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Iranian police have arrested the head of a real estate agency after a viral video showed his firm selling an apartment to a dog,...
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Traditional Swiss wrestling, known as "schwingen" in German, has been a male preserve for centuries.
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A Danish man who claimed to be the first to visit every country in the world in a single trip without flying landed home...
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Officials were left red-faced at a beer factory in Japan’s Okinawa region on Tuesday, after a mishap turned a large body of water a...
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After failing to achieve a high enough score on China’s dreaded college entry exam for the 27th time, 56-year-old Liang Shi is beginning to...
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“It’s a dream come true,” said Filipina tourist Isabel Palijon, staring in wonder at a wooden pier framed by the turquoise waters of a Swiss...
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Turkmenistan’s authoritarian leader launched an “unprecedented” anti-smoking crusade Thursday, ordering the Central Asia country to rid itself completely of tobacco within two years. President...
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Not to be outdone by US-style spelling bee extravaganzas, Paris’s most famous street the Champs-Elysees was transformed into an open-air mass “dictation” spellathon Sunday,...