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Spaniard gored in San Fermin festival bull-run (AP)
AP - The running of the bulls through Pamplona on Tuesday left one man gored and four slightly injured during the annual San Fermin festival, the Spanish Red Cross said.
Truck rams Concorde, knocks off its nose in NYC (AP)
AP - An embarrassed museum official says a two-week nose job should reverse the damage a Concorde supersonic jet suffered when a truck rammed it.
Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title (AP)
AP - Brian "Young Gun" Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.
Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair (AP)
AP - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.
Wis. stun gun thief who posted video gets prison (AP)
AP - A Wisconsin man who posted a video online showing him and his father shocking each other with a stolen stun gun has been sent to prison.
It pays to go in a public toilet (Reuters)
Reuters - It pays to use a toilet in southern India, as residents are earning close to a dollar a month by using public urinals, a scheme launched by authorities to promote hygiene and research in rural areas.
Thirteen hurt on first day of Spanish bull run (Reuters)
Reuters - Thirteen people were taken to
hospital, one of them seriously injured, on the first day of
the annual bull running festival in the northern Spanish town
of Pamplona on Monday, organizers said.
Some coffee fans get grim delight in Starbucks woes (Reuters)
Reuters - One coffee drinker's bad news is
another coffee drinker's good news, it seems.
Man rips head from Hitler wax figure (Reuters)
Reuters - A man tore the head from a controversial
waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's
Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said.
Big cheese carving celebrates Independence Day (Reuters)
Reuters - A sculpture of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence made from a one-tonne block of
cheddar cheese glistened on the sidewalk of Times Square in New
York on Thursday as an artist's tribute to the Fourth of July.
New Zealanders queue in cold for iPhone (Reuters)
Reuters - New Zealanders eager to be the first
in the world to buy Apple's new-generation iPhone have began
queuing up in freezing temperatures, two days before its
release, local media reported on Wednesday.
Study says turn TV off to stay slim (Reuters)
Reuters - Everyone knows what too much television can do to the mind and what too little exercise can do to the body, but a Canadian study has now shown that the boob tube can also lead to an increase in how much we eat.
Common wildlife is alien to many British kids (Reuters)
Reuters - Children's knowledge of wildlife comes a
poor second to their ability to identify science fiction
creatures such as Star Wars characters, according to a survey.
Japanese woman overpowers thief with tea and sympathy (Reuters)
Reuters - A Japanese woman and her six-month-old
baby escaped unhurt from a knife-wielding thief this week after
the mother calmed him down with a cup of tea and a chat.
Flush so we don't blush, Taiwan city says (Reuters)
Reuters - A city in south Taiwan began training
potty users this week to flush toilet paper instead of throwing
it in the trash, to reduce 340 tonnes of stinky waste generated
daily, local media and officials said on Tuesday.
Arrest made after FedEx sends drug to wrong place (AP)
AP - FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Florida to Baltimore via the shipping company.
Wax Hitler to return to museum after head repairs (Reuters)
Reuters - A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to
Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored
the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its opening day, the
museum said on Monday.
Man rips off wax Hitler's head (AP)
AP - A man tore the head off a controversial Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds' new branch in Berlin on its opening day Saturday, officials said.
Russian blogger sentenced for "extremist" post (Reuters)
Reuters - A Russian man who described local police
as "scum" in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail
sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of
a crackdown on free speech online.
Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills (AP)
AP - A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.