Yahoo! News: Odd News
Odd News
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1. Thieves steal pair of nutcracker statues (AP)
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2. Cards from heaven have dead man talking (AP)
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3. Woman gets surprise wedding for Xmas (AP)
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4. N.D. farmer forecasts via pig spleens (AP)
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5. Dalai Lama "is not a call girl" (Reuters)
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6. Should we go back for those, Sarge? (Reuters)
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7. Passport office in need of spellcheck (Reuters)
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8. Malaysian referee pulls out red card then a gun (Reuters)
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9. Maradona wants to meet Iranian president (Reuters)
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10. Brothers hand out Christmas cash at New York mall (Reuters)
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11. Chinese man gets 10 years for stealing from crash site (Reuters)
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12. Feuding Korean clans end 400-year fight over graves (Reuters)
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13. Can GPS system track my dog? Putin asks (Reuters)
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14. Breaking news! Driver crashes into Chicago newscast (Reuters)
Thieves steal pair of nutcracker statues (AP)
2007-12-25 18:55
AP - Thieves ruined Christmas for one woman this year by stealing the pair of 6-foot-tall nutcracker statues from in front of her house.
Cards from heaven have dead man talking (AP)
2007-12-25 16:17
AP - Even in death, Chet Fitch is a card. Fitch, known for his sense of humor, died in October at age 88 but gave his friends and family a start recently: Christmas cards, 34 of them, began arriving — written in his hand with a return address of "Heaven."
Woman gets surprise wedding for Xmas (AP)
2007-12-25 03:51
AP - Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.
N.D. farmer forecasts via pig spleens (AP)
2007-12-24 18:53
AP - Paul Smokov doesn't need radar or other high-tech equipment to forecast a major snowstorm on the prairie. He consults pig spleens.
Dalai Lama "is not a call girl" (Reuters)
2007-12-21 15:21
Reuters - When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to explain in a year-end interview why he'd met the Dalai Lama in his Ottawa office, it was clear he wanted to show respect for the exiled Tibetan leader.
Should we go back for those, Sarge? (Reuters)
2007-12-20 17:16
Reuters - Boxes of hand grenades tumbled out of a Serb Army truck Thursday when the driver pulled up to pay his highway toll, officials in southern Serbia said.
Passport office in need of spellcheck (Reuters)
2007-12-20 17:18
Reuters - Israel's national passport office could have done with a good spellchecker.
Malaysian referee pulls out red card then a gun (Reuters)
2007-12-25 05:00
Reuters - A Malaysian referee took out his gun and fired warning shots in the air after a local soccer match turned unruly following the suspension of a player, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
Maradona wants to meet Iranian president (Reuters)
2007-12-24 21:57
Reuters - Former Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona says he wants to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading U.S. foe, local media reported on Monday.
Brothers hand out Christmas cash at New York mall (Reuters)
2007-12-24 21:54
Reuters - Shoppers got a Christmas Eve surprise on Monday when a pair of brothers handed out $100 (50 pound) bills at a mall on Long Island, New York.
Chinese man gets 10 years for stealing from crash site (Reuters)
2007-12-25 07:20
Reuters - A Chinese villager has been jailed for 10 years for keeping 80,000 yuan (5,600 pounds) in cash he found in a plastic bag at the scene of a car accident, local media reported on Tuesday.
Feuding Korean clans end 400-year fight over graves (Reuters)
2007-12-24 08:27
Reuters - After nearly 400 years, a few killings and scorned pleas from a king, two powerful clans have settled one of the longest-standing feuds in Korean history, over ancestral burial grounds.
Can GPS system track my dog? Putin asks (Reuters)
2007-12-24 14:25
Reuters - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was keen to use Russia's planned global positioning system GLONASS to look after his black Labrador Koni.
Breaking news! Driver crashes into Chicago newscast (Reuters)
2007-12-24 20:35
Reuters - The driver of a minivan who interrupted a local TV newscast while it was on the air by crashing into the station's glass-walled studio, was charged on Monday with reckless driving, authorities said.
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