Topic: NEWS english - on December 20, 2003 at 3:25:00 PM CET
An odd year for an odd world
Australian offbeat stories for 2003
Every year, thousands of news stories get overlooked, lost beneath the welter of major international events.
They are, for the most part, simple matters with a human dimension, not involving world leaders, war or other political upheaval, stories which illustrate the extraordinary in the everyday, the amusing, absurd, outlandish and the downright bizarre occurrences which can befall any of us.
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