Topic: - on November 29, 2002 at 1:28:44 PM CET
42 million Aids cases worldwide
FIVE MILLION people will have become infected with HIV this year, bringing to a record 42 million the number of individuals living with Aids or the virus that causes it. This was said by the United Nations ahead of World Aids Day, which is being observed around the globe on Sunday, December 1.
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Topic: - on November 29, 2002 at 1:18:29 PM CET
Condom bike
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Topic: - on November 29, 2002 at 12:34:47 PM CET
Make war not love, Indian rebels told
The National Liberation Front of Tripura, fighting for a separate homeland, signed up nearly 70 young women over the past year with the aim of creating an all-female force.
But the drive backfired when the male guerrillas started getting romantically entangled with the women recruits, police said.
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Topic: - on November 29, 2002 at 12:29:04 PM CET
Victoria’s Secret customers exposed
THE GLITCH STRUCK a feature at Victoriassecret.com that allows customers to check the status of their orders. Before that feature was turned off on Friday, the unique number assigned to each customer was revealed in the Web browser’s address Window. A browser could simply change the customer number, and in some cases, pull up another customer’s orders.
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Topic: - on November 29, 2002 at 1:15:22 AM CET
German 'crush killer' jailed
A burly German actor who crushed an accountant to death with his own body weight is beginning a 15-year prison sentence. Guenther Kaufmann, 119 kg (19 stone), was cleared of murder by a court in Munich but convicted of grievous robbery and blackmail with fatal consequences.
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Topic: - on November 28, 2002 at 11:58:03 AM CET
Ancient undersea walls discovered off Penghu coast
Details about an undersea site reportedly containing ancient city walls more than 10,000 years old will soon be unveiled as the government announced its support for an exploratory project yesterday.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 7:26:12 PM CET
Helicopter 'blows' men to safety
The crew of a police helicopter have been praised after using the aircraft to "blow to safety" two men who were drowning in a freezing river. A civilian pilot accompanied by two Northumbria Police observers used the down-draught from the force helicopter to blow the men to the banks on the River Tyne in Newcastle.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 12:43:55 PM CET
David Copperfield Pulls Milestone Out Of His Hat
Magician David Copperfield will celebrate a milestone this weekend when he makes his 25,000th audience member disappear at a performance in Beverly Hills. The trick involves 13 randomly-selected audience members who are suspended on a platform above the audience and then disappear only to reappear in Thailand.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 12:35:49 PM CET
Turkeys run for their lives
TWELVE Christmas turkeys are getting the chance to run for their lives on a greyhound track.
The plucky winner of the first Gobble Cup race will be spared the Yuletide chop.
But the 11 losers will be served up as roast turkey with all the trimmings on Christmas Day.
¬> <a href="www.thesun.co.uk"target="_blank">SUN
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 1:56:18 AM CET
Fireplace Falls on Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer is recovering after a bizarre accident. A fireplace fell on the supermodel at a party in London and crushed three of her toes.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 1:51:27 AM CET
Stuffed Animal attraction for sale
A bizarre collection of stuffed animals could fetch up to £2m when it is sold by a Cornwall museum. The Museum of Curiosities is home to a menagerie of 10,000 Victorian stuffed animals. The museum, next to the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, gets about 30,000 visitors a year.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 1:23:53 AM CET
German beer drinkers are bathing in it
There are days when you feel like a bath full of beer, not just a glass, and now you can have both -- thanks to a German brewery which has developed a beer you can wash down your food with or wash down your body. Klosterbrauerei, or monastic brewery, was looking for ways to mop up excess capacity in a slumping beer market and struck upon the bathtime supplement to help tipplers soak away their stresses and strains.
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