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"French kiss" finally enters French dictionary
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:15AM May 30, 2013 CommentPARIS (AP) — After centuries of lacking a French word for the sloppy Gallic export "to French kiss," a verb has finally been given its rightful place in the French dictionary.
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German clinic: Man had pencil in head for 15 years
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:23AM May 29, 2013 CommentBERLIN (AP) — German doctors say a man spent 15 years with a pencil in his head following a childhood accident.
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Pa. woman using purple toilets to fight cancer
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:42AM May 28, 2013 CommentEASTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is using purple toilets to raise money to fight cancer.
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Controversy over naming cyclone after revered king
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:47AM May 28, 2013 CommentCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's top meteorology official has apologized for naming a deadly cyclone after a king who built massive irrigation tanks well over a millennium ago and was venerated as a god.
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Rescuers save a newborn from sewer pipe in China
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:25AM May 28, 2013 CommentBEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say firefighters and medics have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet.
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South Africa: Soweto resident shows off her snakes
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:36PM May 27, 2013 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Tourists have long flocked to the home-turned-museum of former President Nelson Mandela on Vilakazi Street, a lively strip of restaurants, curio sellers and street performers in the South African township of Soweto. Now the area has a growing attraction: big snakes, and lots of them.
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Ohio man, 87, skydives to aid sick great-grandson
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:02PM May 26, 2013 CommentWAYNESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An 87-year-old World War II veteran has parachuted from a plane in an Ohio to support his ailing great-grandson.
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Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668,000
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:31AM May 25, 2013 CommentBERLIN (AP) — An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers — a functioning 1976 model — has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000).
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Police: 'Thong Cape Scooter Man' not breaking law
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:14PM May 24, 2013 CommentMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight. But police say he isn't breaking any laws.
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Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:18PM May 23, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant.
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Council members abstain from vote on abstaining
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:09AM May 23, 2013 CommentYPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes.
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Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:45AM May 23, 2013 CommentHANOI, Vietnam (AP) — One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid.
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Brown hounded for calling Manila 'gates of hell'
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:03AM May 23, 2013 CommentMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital.
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For Philadelphia bicyclist, a cat is his co-pilot
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17AM May 23, 2013 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot.
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Thailand urged to explore edible insect market
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:20AM May 21, 2013 CommentBANGKOK (AP) — Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating.
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Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:53AM May 20, 2013 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than 2 days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite.
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Denmark favorite to win Eurovision Song Contest
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:44AM May 18, 2013 CommentMALMO, Sweden (AP) — An ethno-inspired flute and drum tune from Denmark is the bookmakers' favorite to win this year's Eurovision Song Contest, which also features a bizarre opera pop number from Romania and an Armenian rock song written by the guitarist of Black Sabbath.
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Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:59AM May 17, 2013 CommentEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle.
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Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:25AM May 17, 2013 CommentANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.
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Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed teen pic
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:15AM May 17, 2013 CommentSYDNEY (AP) — An Australian politician says he's learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself.
