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Odd News
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1. Court says baby can't be named 'Friday' (AP)
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2. Shred your bad memories of 2007 (AP)
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3. Judge backs man who posted 'Dilbert' (AP)
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4. Ariz. doc in trouble over photo (AP)
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5. Jingle-bang! Santa's chopper shot up over slum (Reuters)
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6. Pedestrian charged for walking over car (Reuters)
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7. Thank God it's not Friday? (Reuters)
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8. Itsy-bitsy pink bikini gets serviceman jail (Reuters)
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9. Monkeys and college students equal at mental math? (Reuters)
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10. MP doubts his existence over Facebook ban (Reuters)
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11. "Don't Tase Me, Bro" tops quote list (Reuters)
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12. Jingle-Bang! Bah Humbug. Bizarre rules at Christmas (Reuters)
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13. "Bob the Builder" sock is clue in Dutch arson case (Reuters)
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14. Three Kings strike back at Santa Claus in Spain (Reuters)
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15. Jailed "bikini killer" faces more trouble in Nepal (Reuters)
Court says baby can't be named 'Friday' (AP)
2007-12-19 15:36
AP - What's in a name? If the name is Friday, shame and ridicule, according to Italian judges who forbade a couple from naming their child like the character in "Robinson Crusoe."
Shred your bad memories of 2007 (AP)
2007-12-19 17:42
AP - In the spirit of starting anew, a business group and the city's sanitation department are inviting New Yorkers to shred their bad memories of 2007.
Judge backs man who posted 'Dilbert' (AP)
2007-12-19 14:49
AP - An administrative law judge has sided with a man who was fired from the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington after posting a "Dilbert" comic strip on an office bulletin board.
Ariz. doc in trouble over photo (AP)
2007-12-19 15:55
AP - A surgeon faces a disciplinary hearing for snapping a photo of a patient's tattooed genitals during an operation and showing it around to other doctors.
Jingle-bang! Santa's chopper shot up over slum (Reuters)
2007-12-18 15:33
Reuters - Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.
Pedestrian charged for walking over car (Reuters)
2007-12-18 15:00
Reuters - A pedestrian has been charged with damaging property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the sidewalk in Greece's congested capital.
Thank God it's not Friday? (Reuters)
2007-12-18 14:56
Reuters - An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son "Friday" and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on.
Itsy-bitsy pink bikini gets serviceman jail (Reuters)
2007-12-18 15:01
Reuters - A Singapore national serviceman who sashayed into a lift early one morning wearing only a pink bikini has been handed a day's jail and a S$11,000 ($7,529) fine by a court in the city-state, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
Monkeys and college students equal at mental math? (Reuters)
2007-12-18 14:53
Reuters - Monkeys performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans.
MP doubts his existence over Facebook ban (Reuters)
2007-12-19 12:41
Reuters - An MP has had his Facebook account suspended after the site decided he wasn't real.
"Don't Tase Me, Bro" tops quote list (Reuters)
2007-12-19 18:36
Reuters - "Don't Tase Me, Bro," a phrase that swept the nation after a U.S. college student used it seeking to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech by Sen. John Kerry, was named on Wednesday as the most memorable quote of 2007.
Jingle-Bang! Bah Humbug. Bizarre rules at Christmas (Reuters)
2007-12-19 14:33
Reuters - Santa shot at in Rio. Electric eels light up Japanese Christmas tree. Singapore elephants get festive gift of boots for jumbo pain.
"Bob the Builder" sock is clue in Dutch arson case (Reuters)
2007-12-19 14:47
Reuters - Thanks to a "Bob the Builder" sock, police in the Dutch town of 't Zandt say they have caught their main suspect in a string of arson attacks: a 20 year-old caught red-handed setting another fire late on Tuesday.
Three Kings strike back at Santa Claus in Spain (Reuters)
2007-12-19 13:34
Reuters - Santa Claus is under attack by his traditional rivals in Spain, the Three Kings, in an advertising campaign that shows the jolly man in red shot down in an alley and calls him over-commercial and cruel to elves.
Jailed "bikini killer" faces more trouble in Nepal (Reuters)
2007-12-19 15:14
Reuters - Nepal's Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved judgment on an appeal by "bikini killer" Charles Sobhraj against a life sentence for murder until it reviewed charges of his using a false passport.
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