Topic: NEWS english - on September 13, 2004 at 7:55:00 PM CEST
Batman Scales Buckingham Palace, Spider-man Climbs London Eye Ferris Wheel
A protester dressed as Batman reached a ledge near the balcony where the royal family appears on ceremonial occasions by scaling up the front wall of Buckingham Palace on Monday. The protestor is a member of the Fathers 4 Justice group.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 11, 2004 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Demolition crews destroy bridge on mistake
It's an explosion that worked a little too well.
Demolition crews set off charges yesterday intending to bring down one section of an old bridge across the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. But a crowd of onlookers gasped as the explosion took out the rest of the bridge, too.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
A pretty hairy ride!
Leah and Krystle go from big strippers to big dippers as they help smash the nude rollercoaster riding record. The girls joined 30 Sun readers for the historic jaunt on Nemesis at Alton Towers, Staffs. They clung on for two corkscrews, a 104ft dive and two 50mph flips. Krystle, 21 said: "It was the maddest thing I've done."
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
Oregon Hay Fire to Burn for Days
A massive hay fire in Oregon was expected to burn itself out over the next few days.
Fire officials in Salem said the fire that broke out overnight consumed more than 300 tons of hay by daybreak Thursday and was too large to be snuffed by firefighters.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:38:00 AM CEST
Acupuncturist Relieves Camel's Arthritis
Traditional medicine wasn't working to relieve the arthritis in Jewel's front legs. Brookfield Zoo chief veterinarian Tom Meehan said keepers had tried everything they could think of to help the aging Bactrian camel's condition. But in January 2003, a former colleague suggested another, less traditional approach: acupuncture.
The staff saw an improvement in Jewel's condition a few days after the first treatment.
"I hadn't seen this camel run for more than two years, she'd gotten so lame," said Mary Schollhamer, Jewel's chief keeper. "But when she saw me that morning, she ran all the way to the fence to greet me. I was so moved, I started to cry."
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:36:00 AM CEST
Mystery man has Japanese island abuzz
Hidekazu Kakoi was looking for a fishing spot about six miles off shore when he noticed something bobbing on the horizon. He pulled his boat closer and discovered a man, grasping a duffel bag.
That was just the start of the mystery.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:34:00 AM CEST
Smokin' Chicks isn't a strip joint
Some people are getting the wrong idea about Gary Baja's new restaurant, C.R. Smokin' Chicks.
It's not a strip joint, but a place that will sell flame-roasted rotisserie-smoked chicken.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 10, 2004 at 9:32:00 AM CEST
Jessica Simpson clears 'wardrobe approval'
The people behind the NFL Kickoff Special are making sure there are no wardrobe malfunctions at Thursday night's event.
Jessica Simpson is one of the performers. She tells "Access Hollywood" she had to get wardrobe approval.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 9, 2004 at 8:30:00 PM CEST
Playboy to feature digital models
Readers are accustomed to models with silicone-implanted curves - get ready for fully silicon rendered models: The October issue of the men's magazine Playboy will feature high detail and explicit images of popular video game heroines.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 9, 2004 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Playboy Searches For 'Hamburger Hotties'
Move over "Women of Enron," "Women of Starbucks," Women of Home Depot," and "Women of Wal-Mart," Playboy magazine is now searching for -- the "Women of McDonald's."
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 7, 2004 at 9:13:00 AM CEST
Sony Pictures vice president of legal affairs convicted of slavery
A Filipina who won $825,000 (U.S.) in a lawsuit claiming a Hollywood executive and his wife enslaved her called yesterday for an end to human trafficking.
“Slavery still exists, and I want to tell victims they should not tolerate it and should not be afraid to seek help,” Nena Ruiz said at a news conference.
Ruiz, 60 is a former schoolteacher from the Philippines who worked as a domestic servant for James Jackson and his wife, Elizabeth.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 7, 2004 at 9:07:00 AM CEST
Ice from airplane toilet crashes into garden in Austria
It was an inelegant intruder on a sunny afternoon: a chunk of ice from a jetliner toilet that broke free and slammed into an Austrian family's garden.
No one was injured when the ice tumbled from the sky Sunday afternoon in Graz, about 120 miles south of Vienna, authorities said. The fragment bore deep into the soil in the garden, where the unidentified family was enjoying a lazy summer afternoon.
Police said the 6-inch ice ball almost certainly came from an airliner toilet, judging from its blue color and its odor. They did not elaborate.
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