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	<title><![CDATA[Swedish male train drivers don skirts to beat the heat]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Male staff on Stockholm&#39;s commuter trains have begun wearing skirts to circumvent a ban on shorts as sweltering heat hit the Swedish capital this week.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:54:26 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Experts offer Merkel tips on how to cheer up the Germans]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[BERLIN&nbsp;- &quot;Happiness experts&quot; from all over the world offered Germany&#39;s Angela Merkel tips on Wednesday on how to cheer up her citizens, often stereotyped as prosperous worriers who view their glasses as half empty rather than half full.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:22:06 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Austrian bank employee &#39;drops 90,000 euros into river&#39;]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[VIENNA&nbsp;- An Austrian bank employee has found himself in hot water after he unloaded bags containing 90,000 euros ($117,000) from his car boot to fix a puncture -- only to see the money to fall into a river below.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:32:27 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Man lived for years with pencil inside his head]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[BERLIN&nbsp;&nbsp;- A young man lived for many years with a pencil lodged inside his head, said German surgeons who detected the object on a CT scan and safely removed it.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 01:56:14 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Norway crime novelist sets world record for longest interview after 30 hour-chat]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Defying the stereotype of the tight-lipped Scandinavian, popular Norwegian crime writer Hans Olav Lahlum set the world record for the longest interview on Thursday after spending more than 30 non-stop hours chatting in an online broadcast.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:10:41 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel&#39;s tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:55:04 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[$4.85-M lotto ticket found in US cookie jar]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A Chicago resident who dug a handful of old lottery tickets out of his cookie jar was shocked to find out one of them was worth $4.85 million, officials said.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 02:51:59 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Turkish Airlines backs down on lipstick ban]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Turkish Airlines is quashing a ban on female flight attendants wearing red lipstick and nail polish, its chief executive said on Thursday, after an outcry by secular Turks worried the country is becoming too Islamic.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:32:36 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Chinese tofu feud lands on Obama&#39;s plate]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Internet users in China, a country with a long tradition of petitioning, are appealing to a new authority to resolve grievances and controversies such as the merits of salty or sweet tofu - the U.S. White House petitions website.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:53:24 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Mirren, dressed as queen, reads royal riot act to noisy drummers]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Actress Helen Mirren has delivered another show-stopping performance as Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth after storming out of a London theater dressed as the monarch to deliver an expletive-riddled tirade at a group of drummers ruining the play.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:58:40 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Secular Turks see red over airline&#39;s lipstick ban]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Turkey&#39;s national airline has barred female flight attendants from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, striking a nerve among secular Turks worried the country is becoming more Islamic. Turkish Airlines, Europe&#39;s fourth-biggest carrier, said the ban was aimed at keeping crews &quot;artless and well-groomed with makeup in pastel tones&quot;, as a natural look improved communication with passengers. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:53:54 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Thief with conscience returns cremated remains in Washington state]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE - A thief with a soft-hearted streak, who inadvertently nabbed some cremated remains along with thousands of rare gems in a truck burglary in Washington state, has anonymously mailed back the ashes to their owner, police said on Wednesday.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:53:38 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Obama threatens &#39;family tattoo&#39; if daughters get their own]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Speaking on NBC&#39;s &quot;Today&quot; show in a segment originally filmed before the Boston Marathon bombings, President Barack Obama revealed the strategy he and First Lady Michelle Obama have been using to keep their daughters away from tattoos.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:28:32 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Spas for pigs, dogs with psychics: meet the &#39;Spoiled Rotten Pets&#39;]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[&quot;Spoiled Rotten Pets&quot; is a new television series that dives into the world of fawning pet owners who outfit rats in formal wear and pamper Burmese pythons like princes.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:05:18 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Nepali TV host earns Guinness record for longest talk show]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A Nepali television host has earned the Guinness world record for the longest television talk show in a marathon discussion about the founder of Buddhism which lasted more than two days.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:28:53 +0800</pubDate>
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