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Dutch man’s 10 day-wait at Chinese airport for woman ends in hospital

A Dutch man spent 10 days at an airport in China waiting for a woman he met on the internet but ended up hospitalized…

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Malawi Police arrest man paid to have sex with 100 children

Malawi police have arrested an HIV-infected man who was paid to have sex with more than 100 adolescent girls as…

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Russian pranksters call heads of WADA, U.S. anti-doping agency

Russian media published on Friday calls by two comedians to the heads of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the…

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Russian breaks round-the-world hot air balloon record

Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov on Saturday broke the record for the fastest round-the-world flight in a hot air balloon, his…

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India firm gifts Trump 6,000 tea bags to cleanse his soul

An Indian company Thursday said it had sent 6,000 green tea bags to White House hopeful Donald Trump, believing they…

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Raisin’ cash: Japan grapes fetch $10,900 at auction

A bunch of grapes in Japan sold for $10,900, a record price for the variety in the fruit-obsessed nation where…

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Drug lord’s pet hippos roam Colombian village

More than 20 years after Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar died in a gunfight with police, a strange legacy survives…

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S.Korean selfie tourist dies in Peru waterfall: police

Peruvian police pulled a South Korean tourist dead from under a waterfall in the Amazon jungle, days after he fell…

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Napoleon’s last horse to strut his stuff after makeover

Visitors to the Army Museum in Paris are being treated to the rare sight of two taxidermists at work restoring…

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