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Man jailed after blowing himself up with bomb for in-laws 

Odd
2011-12-2

A MAN who used homemade bombs to threaten his wife's relatives, but finally hurt himself was sentenced to three years in prison for endangering public...

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Student used 7 identities to blackmail policeman 

Odd
2011-11-18

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Burglar locked in flat almost starves to death 

Odd
2011-10-10

A thief was found barely breathing after a homeowner accidentally locked him in an apartment in an eastern China city with no food for four days. The suspect, surnamed He, allegedly sneaked into the sixth floor...

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Man struggles walking after toe used to replace finger 

Odd
2011-9-26

A migrant worker in southern China's Guangdong Province has difficulty walking after a hospital cut off one of his toes to replace a finger he lost in an accident, China Radio International (CRI) reported yesterday. ...

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Henan's 'Noah' builds an ark 

Odd
2011-9-8

A man from central China's Henan Province who is convinced the world will end in 2012 has hired workers to build his own 'Noah's ark.' The 20,000 yuan (US$3,130) ark is being built from an 8-meter-long oil...

Doctors find 5cm centipede in woman's ear 

Odd
2011-9-7

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Couple gets octuplets after in vitro fertilization too successful 

Odd
2011-12-19

WHILE doctors are developing new methods to optimize successful test-tube pregnancy rates, the process was too successful for a couple in south China's Guangzhou, who ended up with eight babies. The infertile couple...

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16-year-old stabbed to death for smelly feet 

Odd
2011-12-14

A 16-year-old boy in southern Guangdong Province was stabbed to death in a quarrel caused by his smelly feet. His killer fled but surrendered to the police hours later, Guangzhou Daily reported today. Shunde City...

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College girl jailed for cheating cop in various roles 

Odd
2011-11-17

A female college student in Beijing was sentenced to five years in jail for cheating more than 300,000 yuan (US$47,238) out of a police officer by playing the roles of seven different persons, the Beijing Times reported...

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Woman's broken tongue caused by brutal kiss 

Odd
2011-9-23

A 19-year-old woman in northeastern Heilongjiang Province has been hospitalized for a tongue-tie rupture inflicted by her boyfriend who was overjoyed to see her after days of separation and kissed her too hard. Doctors...

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Man nabbed at US airport with snakes in his pants 

Odd
2011-8-31

NEVER mind ants in your pants, what about snakes and tortoises? That's what authorities at Miami's international airport said they found inside the trousers of a passenger as he tried to board a flight for Brazil....

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Mystery of glowing white ball in the sky 

Odd
2011-8-23

A HUGE glowing UFO hovering high above Shanghai at around 9pm on Saturday was spotted by several civil aviation pilots who reported the sightings to the East China Air Traffic Control Bureau. A bureau official...

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Monkey bites off baby's testicles during diaper change 

Odd
2011-7-20

A monkey bit off an eight-month-old boy's right testicle in a zoo in Guizhou Province yesterday and doctors said the damage was beyond repair, Shenzhen TV reported today. The boy's family condemned the indifference...

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23cm-long tapeworm plucked from woman's brain 

Odd
2011-7-6

DOCTORS in Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital in Nanjing removed a 23-centimeter-long parasitic worm from the brain of a young woman a week ago, ending her six-month ordeal of tingling seizures, the local Yangtze...

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Turtles crossing runway cause New York flight delays 

Odd
2011-6-30

FLIGHTS at John F. Kennedy International Airport were delayed shortly yesterday when about 150 diamondback terrapin turtles were spotted crossing a runway, authorities said. The reptiles were trying to get to...

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Aged Jenin woman goes back to school in 70s 

Odd
2011-6-4

ARIFA Malaysha, a 70-year-old school girl, does not care at all to sit on bench together with her classmates of kids who are not older than seven years old in a school in the village of Jaba's in northern West Bank. ...

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Caterpillars stop train in Inner Mongolia 

Odd
2011-6-2

SWARMS of caterpillars recently invaded a section of railway in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, delaying a cargo train for three hours, railway police said yesterday. The train slowed and then...

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Breast masseurs stir up fuss 

Odd
2011-5-19

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Museum shows Chinese incarnation of Angry Bird 

Odd
2011-4-22

FANS of a popular game "Angry Bird" are surprised to find an ancient Chinese wine vessel at the Shanxi Provincial Museum bearing a great resemblance to their bird fighter. The owl-shaped bronze vessel called "Xiao...

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Suspected 'Obama robber' nabbed in Austria 

Odd
2011-4-1

AUSTRIAN authorities say they've arrested a man suspected of robbing a series of banks while wearing a Barack Obama mask. Police say the 45-year-old German man is suspected of carrying out seven heists since 2008,...

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British tabby has a purrrfect, but loud sound 

Odd
2011-4-1

A GRAY-AND-WHITE cat by the name of Smokey has cat-apulted to fame with purring so loud it has been recorded at a potentially record-setting 73 decibels. Northampton College in central England that measured the...