Topic: POLITIK - on August 17, 2004 at 4:31:00 PM CEST
Saddam relatives applied for asylum in Sweden
While the US is hunting for close relatives of the ex-dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq, central family members have allegedly received political asylum in Sweden.
According to the Swedish paper Expressen, two of Saddam’s cousins are allegedly living in a Swedish city. An Iraqi intelligence source, the paper has been in contact with, states that both of cousins left from their hometown Tikrit to Jordan two years ago.
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Topic: SEX - on August 17, 2004 at 4:20:00 PM CEST
Miss dropped due to porn career
When the management of Miss Norway was informed that Aylar had stared in two porn films, she lost her place in the Norwegian finale. However, first she tried to blame it on her non-existing twin sister, reported the Norwegian television channel TV Norge Monday night.
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Topic: TV - on August 17, 2004 at 3:21:00 PM CEST
sierralog - Auf Nummer Sicher gehen
Wenn du mit einer Frau zusammen bist und sie unbedingt haben, festhalten, fesseln willst - sprich sie heiraten willst - und du dir aber nicht sicher bist ob Sie ja sagt, dann gibts folgenden todsicheren Plan der immer funktioniert:
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Kündige deinen langweiligen Job.
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Bewirb dich beim ORF als "Formatkonzeptionist" und fasel irgendwas von bahnbrechenden Strategien und Sendungsformaten und Erfahrungen in den USA!
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 17, 2004 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
Jugendliche verprügelten Musiker Stefan Mross
Wie erst heute bekannt wurde, ist der bayerische Volksmusik-Star <a href="www.stadtbroschuere.de"target="_blank">Stefan Mross vergangene Woche auf dem Hanuschplatz in Salzburg von zwei Jugendlichen verprügelt worden. G
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Topic: 911 - on August 17, 2004 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
Letzter Schliff für neues 9/11?
In den USA steigt erneut die Angst vor Anschlägen. Nach einem Geheimtreffen der Führungsriege des Terrornetzwerkes El Kaida schrillen die Alarmglocken: Ein neuer Großanschlag oder eine Anschlagserie wie am 11. September könnte bei dem Treffen "auf Schiene gebracht" worden sein. Die Angst scheint nicht unbegründet. Rund ein Jahr vor den 9/11-Attacken hatte es ebenfalls ein geheimes El-Kaida-Treffen gegeben.
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Topic: SEX - on August 17, 2004 at 12:49:00 PM CEST
A little porn is 'good for you'
PORNOGRAPHY is good for people, the academic leading a taxpayer-funded study of the subject said yesterday, as the Coalition and Labor traded jibes about an Opposition push to stop online porn reaching home computers.
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Topic: ROBOT - on August 17, 2004 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
Kickboxing robots draw crowds in Japan
The contenders are robots fighting in a special kickboxing match that's held twice a year in Japan, a leading nation in the robotics world.
The all-for-fun event is evidence not only of an infatuation with robots here but also of the widely accepted view of robots as entertaining friends.
cnn newscientist
Video 3.90MB MPEG shows a large robot pummelling a smaller contestant and flexing its arms in celebration.
The Rumble 3.48MB MPEG shows eight robots with various fighting techniques battling it out.
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Topic: SPORT - on August 17, 2004 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
CON ED 'TATTOO'
A 26-year-old skateboarder is scarred for life after she fell onto a red-hot Con Edison manhole cover — mere blocks from the scene of a tragic death earlier this year when a woman stepped onto an electrified Con Ed cover.
"I landed with my arm and back straight onto the metal cover," Wallenberg said. "I noticed it was kind of hot, but I didn't realize how bad it was until my skin started to sizzle."
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 17, 2004 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
Boy dies in fridge during heatwave
A FIVE-year-old boy was electrocuted in a refrigerator at the family home in Qena, Upper Egypt, after climbing inside to escape from the heatwave raging in the region, police reported.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 17, 2004 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
Australian fined for biting off mouse's tail to win pub competition
A remorseful man was shocked to learn he had bitten the tail off a live mouse while drunk to win a pub competition, a court was told Tuesday. Competition organizers gave McGee a drinks voucher for 100 Australian dollars ($95) before the competition started and he downed bourbon and beer for six hours before competing.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 17, 2004 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
Kids Plus Rocks Equals 120,000 Angry Bees
Kids throwing rocks stirred up more trouble than they bargained for when they dislodged a swarm of bees from an enormous hive built in the wall of a Southern California apartment building, authorities said on Friday.
An estimated 120,000 bees held residents of the apartment building and nearby homes hostage in Santa Ana, California after the children pelted their 500 pound (227 kg) hive with rocks on Thursday, Santa Ana Fire Captain Steve Horner said.
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Topic: SPORT - on August 17, 2004 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Smelly shoes to beat pesky rabbits
A Belgian soccer club wants people to donate worn and smelly shoes in their efforts to keep rabbits off their pitch.
The club, Cercle Oedelem, has asked locals to give them their old shoes.
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