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Germans blame euro crisis for Eurovision failure
Germans have lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest by blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries that voted. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st out of 26 finalist countries,...
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Ice wave hits Canada
High winds and a spring thaw have produced a massive wall of ice that was sent crashing into a small Canadian lakeside community. Homes and cottages were destroyed and some residents had to flee for their lives. Parts of the town had just been...
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Branson dons skirt over lost bet
Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson has served as a flight attendant - wearing lipstick and a red skirt - to honour a bet. The Virgin Group founder also had his legs shaved in order to help out on an AirAsia flight from Perth, Australia, to...
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Dung study leads to rhino baby boom
A zoo is celebrating a rhino baby boom after a five-year study of the animal’s dung, researchers said. Experts monitored the hormone levels of female rhinos at Chester Zoo in a bid to discover the best time to introduce them to a potential...
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‘Lucky’ guy survives against all odds
Tough Matthew Hawksley has cheated death eight times – suffering a 15ft fall, four heart attacks, MRSA, pneumonia and cancer, reports The Sun. The 25-year-old welder, of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, first dived off a sea wall, not realising the water...
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Floods man saves himself using rope trick
A man was helped to rescue himself using a rope traverse from his home after parts of southwest China were inundated with floods, leaving tens of thousands affected. A mountaineering-style traverse rope allowed the man to "zip-line" across to...
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First ‘bonehead’ dinosaur
A head-butting dinosaur with a skull like a conker is helping scientists knock together a better picture of life 85 million years ago. The two-legged ‘bonehead’ dinosaur Acrotholus audeti had a two-inch thick skullcap which it may have used as a...
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Woman survives after harpoon is fired through her mouth
A Brazilian woman miraculously survived after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth with a harpoon. The Rio de Janeiro State Health Department said Elisangela Borborema Rosa's husband was cleaning his spear gun when it went off, firing a...
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Scientists discover 'lost continent' off Brazil
A team of Japanese and Brazilian scientists say they may have discovered part of the earth's original continent off the coast of Brazil before the land masses drifted apart. Jessica Gray reports. The continent called Pangaea existed before the...
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Nervous "nuns" nabbed when bad habits reveal drugs
The police in Colombia have arrested three women dressed as nuns after they were caught trying to smuggle cocaine under their habits through an international airport. Officials said the women were caught on Saturday on the Caribbean island on San...
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Pakistan's Imran Khan in dramatic fall
Politician and former cricketer Imran Khan fell off a makeshift elevator and was injured during a rally for his election campaign. The incident happened during election campaigning in the eastern city of Lahore. Khan and three others fell at least...
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Biggest necklace diamond for sale
A 75.36 carats briolette diamond is worn by Hong Kong-based model and actress Lynn Xiong during a Christie's preview in Hong Kong. The diamond, which is the largest D/1F briolette diamond on record and estimated to be worth between $8.5 million and...
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Mirren, dressed as the Queen, reads rude royal act to noisy drummers
Actress Helen Mirren has delivered another show-stopping performance as Britain's Queen Elizabeth after storming out of a London theatre dressed as the monarch to deliver an expletive-riddled tirade at a group of drummers ruining the...
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Cure for grey hair on the way
A cure for grey hair which means millions will be able to throw away messy dyes could be available in the future, researchers have said. Scientists found people who are going grey develop "massive oxidative stress" via accumulation of hydrogen...
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Restaurant staff used chilli sauce to stop robber
It might look like an innocent batch of chili sauce - but this fiery blend can have other uses, it seems. Just ask the man who tried to rob this Portuguese take-away restaurant in Australia but was thwarted by quick-thinking staff packing some real...
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Plane crashes at Madrid air show
A plane crashed into a hangar and exploded, killing its pilot during an air show in Madrid yesterday. The 34-year-old pilot was identified as Ladislao T.R, a commander who took part in operations in Libya, Spanish media said. T.R was flying a...
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Mystery missing crashed plane found
Hunters have found the remains of a Russian plane that disappeared a year ago with 13 people on board in central Russia. The Antanov An-2 left the city of Serov in June 2012. Officials have found 11 bodies. Investigators suspect the passengers --...
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Raining euros
Residents of the Belgian town of Zedelgem, disturbed by the sound of a high-speed car chase, rushed outside to find it was raining euros and started helping themselves. About one million euros had flown out of a safe that burst open when fleeing...
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Plant prattle
More than one in five gardeners in the UK admit talking to their plants in the hope it will help them to grow, a survey has revealed. The poll of 2,000 people for home and garden retailer Wilko's also found that one in eight people sing or play...
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Demand for child-free flights
A majority of holidaymakers in the UK would be prepared to pay more to go on child-free flights, according to a survey. Those in favour of adult-only planes include some with young children of their own, the poll by travel agent sunshine.co.uk...
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Gang sold rat meat as lamb
Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country's latest food safety scandal. The Ministry of Public Security released results of a three-month crackdown on food safety...
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