Topic: ART - on August 27, 2004 at 2:46:00 PM CEST
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 27, 2004 at 1:02:00 PM CEST
Entire 13-metre bridge stolen in southern Bosnia, police say
In what could qualify for Ripley's Believe It or Not, seven thieves stole an entire 13-metre bridge near the southern Bosnian town of Mostar, police said Friday.
Over several days, the group dismantled the metal bridge built during the Austro-Hungarian empire 150 years ago, transported the parts to a local junk yard and sold them, a police statement said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 27, 2004 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Georgia says underpants ruin Russian image
Georgia has demanded that Moscow quit part of a military base on the Black Sea, saying the sight of Russian troops drying their underwear is ruining the reputation of its former imperial master. "They are drying their underwear, and the remains of a once-great army are lying around on their armoured vehicles. I do not think this is good for Russia," President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Georgian television on Thursday.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 27, 2004 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
Australian scientists build banana-powered electricity generator
Australian scientists have created an electricity generator fuelled by decomposing bananas and are working on plans for a full-scale, fruit-fired power station. "In North Queensland, bananas are abundantly available and could be a great source of renewable energy," Clarke told AFP.
About one-third of tropical Queensland's banana crop, more than 20,000 tonnes a year, never makes it to the shops because they are bruised or too small.
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Topic: ART - on August 27, 2004 at 12:55:00 PM CEST
Bag of rubbish artwork confuses gallery cleaner
There are those who argue that most modern art is rubbish, but few critics take the view as literally as a cleaner at one of Britain's most prestigious galleries. Faced with a large plastic bag filled with newspaper, cardboard and other similar items, the cleaner at London's Tate Britain failed to spot that it formed a part of a work by German artist Gustav Metzger, a report said Friday.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 27, 2004 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Dinosaur kangaroos spotted in Chile
Authorities are puzzled in Chile after a number of motorists reported seeing strange creatures resembling dinosaur kangaroos. The sightings were registered on different days by people who had driven along the road linking Iquique and Arica, through the Atacama Desert.
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Topic: SEX - on August 27, 2004 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
Prisoners want bail to have sex
Two men being held in an Indian jail have asked for permission to go home to have sex with their wives. Yadav wrote to Bihar state authorities: "I have become a sex addict post-marriage. I am always tensed up as I am deprived of sex. It's been a long time since I last saw my wife and children... It's really painful."
Kumar wrote in his bail plea: "My case is getting drawn for so long that I can't bear the agony of separation with my wife... I have been living in tension for the last three years."
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Topic: POLITIK - on August 27, 2004 at 12:14:00 PM CEST
Canadian MP calls U.S. 'idiots'
Canadian Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish had said she hated "damned Americans" and called them bastards in the run-up to the Iraq war.
She found a new moniker, idiots, on Wednesday in discussing the planned U.S. missile defense system.
"We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise," the Liberal legislator told a small group of demonstrators.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 27, 2004 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia
A Massachusetts businessman allegedly paid members of the computer underground to launch organized, crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against three of his competitors, in what federal officials are calling the first criminal case to arise from a DDoS-for-hire scheme.
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Topic: CARS - on August 27, 2004 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Australian inventor makes engine that runs off air
An Australian inventor claims to have made the world's first commercially-viable motor vehicle powered by compressed air.
The vehicle is being tried out by contractors in Melbourne's parks and gardens over the next 12 months as an alternative to conventional diesel or petrol engines.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 27, 2004 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
Winnipeg makes crack smoking safer
Social workers in Winnipeg have begun handing out “high-quality” crack pipes and instructions to addicts on the city's streets, part of a harm-reduction strategy put in place by local health officials.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 27, 2004 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Cops aim to cut down tree that draws crime
Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies think they have found a solution for getting rid of drug dealers and prostitutes who congregate under a giant oak tree: chop it down.
The sheriff's office is seeking permission to have the tree removed from a county right of way on Cypress Street.
"We're not attacking the tree," Deputy Don Hess said. "The tree hasn't hurt anybody."
But Hess said it provides cover for drug dealers and prostitutes and their customers. He said 30 to 40 arrests per month stem from criminal activity at the oak.
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