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The finals of British TV talent show “Britain’s Got Talent” held Saturday were marred when a backing musician threw eggs at judge Simon Cowell during a performance.The 30-year-old viola player, who was performing with a backing group for contestants Richard and Adam Johnson, abruptly br...
Updated : 2013.06.10 16:45
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A Nottingham college has introduced a course in which students can study heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath and Metallica, British media reported.The Heavy Metal Music Performance course by New ...
Updated : 2013.05.13 16:16
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A Cambridge University drinking society announced Tuesday that it is ending its “traditional” jelly wrestling ritual after students complained the event displayed sexism.According to British news reports, Cambridge student Nina de Paula Hanika recently started a petition to protest the w...
Updated : 2013.05.08 18:14
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Three American women who went missing separately about 10 years ago were found on Monday inside a house in Ohio where they had been held captive, local media reported.According to CNN and AP, a woman who identified herself as Amanda Berry called the police emergency dispatch and said she h...
Updated : 2013.05.07 16:56
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A 15-centimeter-long mummified skeleton with a deformed shape has been confirmed to have human DNA.Garry Nolan, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, and his colleagues have analyzed the specimen and found that there is no evidence that it originated from...
Updated : 2013.05.03 13:17
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From illegal impromptu pet shops, to glove eating goats in Buddhist monasteries, this collection features various animal encounters on the streets of China. (UPI) <관련 한글 기사>중국에서 만난 거...
Updated : 2012.11.08 14:19
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A 3-year-old boy was mauled to death Sunday when he fell into the African painted dog exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, the zoo said.A zoo news release said keepers were able to clear seven of...
Updated : 2012.11.05 10:49
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The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Bataar dinosaur. (AP)Prosecutors say they‘ve charged a Florida man with illegally importing dinosaur fossils from Asia, including one that sold for more than $1 millio...
Updated : 2012.10.18 10:39
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A Texas man living in a cave dismissed allegations he has been seen wandering the area in the nude.The man, who declined to give his name, was the subject of complaints from a group of hikers who said they found the man‘s furnished cave Sunday in El Paso’s McKelligon Canyon and were chas...
Updated : 2012.10.17 10:48
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The New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services is investigating the family of a 2-year-old who wandered into a supermarket on his own late at night. Employees at the A&P in Hoboken found the toddler at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, The Jersey Journal reported. They called police who lo...
Updated : 2012.10.12 09:37
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A 77-year-old Chicago man is facing charges for allegedly stealing an ambulance from a hospital he had just left, police say.John Neal is accused of walking out of MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn Tuesday night, hopping in an apparently idling ambulance and driving off. He had gone about 10 mile...
Updated : 2012.10.11 09:47
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Beekeepers in northern France said a nearby M&M‘s factory may be to blame for their bees producing blue and green honey.Alain Frieh, president of the Union of Beekeepers of Ribeauville, said beekeepe...
Updated : 2012.10.08 09:58
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A Nebraska man accused of pushing his wife onto a bed and rubbing a sandwich in her face has been sentenced to five days in jail.Larry Spurling, 50, of Melbeta pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of disturbing the peace stemming from the Sunday incident and was sentenced to five days in ...
Updated : 2012.10.05 13:07
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A small farming town in Romania is reeling Friday after learning angry pigs knocked a farmer's wife unconscious and began eating her.The Sun of London reported Irma Molnar, 56, somehow fell into the animals' sty in Brasov, and likely frightened them badly.Her husband, Sandor, found her bad...
Updated : 2012.10.04 11:40
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Maria Shriver, right, and her husband, actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. (AP)Arnold Schwarzenegger says he still hopes to salvage his marriage despite admitting multiple affairs,...
Updated : 2012.10.02 11:13
