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These prize heifers had a moo-velous time being given a make-over during a European cow beauty contest.
And there were plenty of short back and sighs as they were pampered with a shampoo, cut and blow dry.
Welshman Rhys Jones who travelled to the annual German Holstein Show in Oldenburg, Germany, to work as a cow hairdresser said: "You have...
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18/06/2013 @ 13:06 (10 hours ago)
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Proud giraffe mum Rita is walking tall after giving birth to this cute calf just days ago.
The youngster - born at Schonbrunn Zoo, Vienna, Austria - already weighs in at 60 kilos and is bigger than most of his keepers at 1.7 metres tall.
Baby Lubango was born on Saturday after a 15 month pregnancy with keepers standing by to catch the...
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18/06/2013 @ 13:06 (11 hours ago)
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Scotland's football fans are after for the return of a flag lost during a World Cup qualifier Croatia top bring them luck in a showdown with old rivals England in August.
Fans from Ayr lost their huge 'Tartan Ayr Force' flag after their 1-0 victory in Zagreb earlier this month.
Now Scotland supporter Doug Maclean has written to local media...
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18/06/2013 @ 13:06 (11 hours ago)
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Sexy singer Jelena Karleusa has dismissed her political knockers - by vowing to sing nude at her next concert.
Blonde Jelena - Serbia's answer to Lady Gaga - has been condemned for her raunchy routines in see-through outfits at her shows in her homeland.
Local politicians in the country's capital Belgrade have branded her act "sinful" and...
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17/06/2013 @ 13:06 (1 day ago)
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A dog owner who killed his pet by tying him to a rock and leaving him to drown on a beach has been arrested by police after furious animal lovers tracked him down on Facebook.
A shocked dog walker in Huelva, Spain, found the tragic pooch's body in the sand at low tide and posted a snap on the social networking site asking followers to trace the...
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17/06/2013 @ 13:06 (1 day ago)
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The mum of India's famous conjoined twins Saba and Farha Shakeel has begged the country's president to give her permission to let the sisters die.
In a letter to president Pranab Mukherjee, mum Rabia Khatoon wrote: "They must die, their pain is unbearable."
The 17-year-old sisters are joined at the skull and have been suffering severe...
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17/06/2013 @ 13:06 (1 day ago)
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Clearly this odd couple couldn't give a hoot about how they look.
But the male great grey owl and the pint-sized long-eared owl have become inseparable since they began sharing a nest at a wildlife park in Goldau, Germany.
The junior partner - at 12 inches tall - is just half the size of its landlord and doesn't even seem to be put off by...
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17/06/2013 @ 13:06 (1 day ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
It's either a supersized ET, or the biggest UFO prank in the world.
But this giant-sized crop art on farmland in Uzdin, Serbia, has got locals baffled.
The huge letters spelling out XXL appeared overnight in a field after a violent thunder storm his the region.
"We think we can see some tractor marks nearby so maybe the culprit is closer...
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14/06/2013 @ 11:06 (5 days ago)
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A one-legged drugs trafficker was caught on the hop when customs officials stopped him at a Spanish airport - and found more than a kilo of cocaine stashed in his false limb.
Drugs police became suspicious of the man and an accomplice when they arrived in Madrid on a flight from Panama looking nervous.
"It was just a hunch but one based on...
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14/06/2013 @ 11:06 (5 days ago)
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Snow guessing who the new stars of the show are at this zoo in Salzburg, Austria - these adorable six-week-old snow leopard cubs.
The three youngsters - two girls and a boy - were easily spotted as they ventured outside their den for the first time under the watchful eye of mum Mira.
Big cat keeper Andreas Gfrerer said: "They were out for...
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14/06/2013 @ 10:06 (5 days ago)
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Dozens of rare birds smuggled from Indonesia to Europe in a suitcase had to be killed by vets after one was discovered to have the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.
The 60 birds - wild parrots, birds of paradise and other exotic species - had been trafficked from Bali to Qatar and then through Austria's Vienna airport before the smugglers were...
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13/06/2013 @ 09:06 (6 days ago)
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Local voters have come up with a puuurfect candidate for their next mayor - this black and white moggy.
Morris the cat is odds-on favourite for the top job in Xalapa, Mexico, with his Pied-Piper promise to "kill all rats."
And his election manifesto videos have won the hearts of locals with their no-nonsense messages: "Given the number of...
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13/06/2013 @ 09:06 (6 days ago)
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Brass necked scrap metal thieves who made off with a life-size sculpture of a giraffe are being hunted by police in Bad Honnef, Germany.
The copper statue - worth 1,200 GBP - had been chained to a street sign overnight at a gardening festival.
But thieves using bolt cutters snipped through the chains and fled with the 20ft tall display.
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13/06/2013 @ 09:06 (6 days ago)
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Goggle-eyed motorists would rather ogle girls' boobs than watch out for road signs, a bizarre experiment by traffic cops in Poland has revealed.
Police set up two models in hot pants and low cut tops and star rally driver Maciej Dreszer - complete with his racing car - under a sign showing the speed limit as 44 kph (27mph).
Then they stopped...
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12/06/2013 @ 10:06 (7 days ago)
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Sneak thieves who made off with thousands of bottles of beer from an overturned truck are being sought by police in Poznan, Poland.
The stricken lorry shed its load when the driver lost control on a bend and flipped over.
But instead of helping or dialling 999, other drivers simply stopped their cars and loaded up with crates of unbroken...
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12/06/2013 @ 10:06 (7 days ago)
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Fed up shop owner Goran Trninic has stuck up photos of middle-aged women stealing from his shop to shame them into confessing.
The 40-year-old shopkeeper said he was losing over 150 GBP because of the thieving housewives and said he had had enough.
"I decided to put their photos from CCTV footage on the wall after police said they couldn’t...
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12/06/2013 @ 09:06 (7 days ago)
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A drunken would be Romeo had to be rescued when he got stuck after he shinned 50ft up the outside of a tower block to serenade his former girlfriend from her balcony.
Firefighters in Uherske Hradiste, the Czech Republic, found hapless Jiri Nowotny, 30, wedged between a stairwell tower and the block's outer wall.
He later told police he'd had...
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11/06/2013 @ 10:06 (1 week ago)
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A picture of a teacher posing in her sexy undies had gone viral in a school in Russia after pupils hacked into her teacher boyfriend's laptop computer looking for answers to a test paper.
The goggle-eyed 15-year-olds found the photo in a private file and within seconds had sent it on to hundreds of classmates and friends.
Education officials...
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11/06/2013 @ 10:06 (1 week ago)
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A 21-year-old girl has told how she aims to sleep her way into the record books - by bedding 100,000 men around the world.
Randy Ania Lisewska - from Warsaw, Poland - told her Facebook followers she plans to sleep with men in every city in the world for her sex marathon.
"I want men from Poland, Europe and all around the world. I love sex,...
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11/06/2013 @ 09:06 (1 week ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
Election hopeful Susana Hurtado Vallejo has said knickers to her knockers in Mexico - by handing out free bras and panties to potential voters.
Susana -standing for office as Mayor in Cancun explained: "I wanted to give people something that was useful something that was pretty, and something they would use."
Voters have been showered with...
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10/06/2013 @ 10:06 (1 week ago)
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A smuggler who didn't give two hoots for animal welfare was arrested by German border police as she tried to traffic a barn owl out of the country in a cardboard box.
The two-month-old owl was confiscated by officials when they noticed the box moving on the train heading to Basel in Switzerland.
Barn owls are a protected species and it is...
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10/06/2013 @ 10:06 (1 week ago)
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A mucky trucker has confessed to crashing his rig doing 50 MPH while a hooker he'd picked up was giving him oral sex.
Shamefaced Ioan Albu, 34, says he lost control while the prostitute was pleasuring him and overturned his cargo of beer on a sharp curve.
"I'd met her at a hotel car park a few miles down the road," said Ioan.
"I'm not...
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10/06/2013 @ 10:06 (1 week ago)
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A terrified binman had told how his entire rubbish truck was swallowed when a giant hole opened up in the road in front of him.
Shocked Marian Popescu disappeared down the 12 feet square hole without warning when the tarmac collapsed underneath him in Craiova, Romania,
"One minute I was fine, the next was was falling into the earth," said...
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10/06/2013 @ 10:06 (1 week ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
A car hire firm is making dummies out of burglars in Switzerland - by renting out fake police cars for people to park outside their homes.
Owner Andreas Birrer - from Sursee - is copping a small fortune charging 150 GBP a week for one of his fleet of replica patrol cars.
"They're very popular with people who travel a lot or who are going...
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10/06/2013 @ 09:06 (1 week ago)
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A drunk driver who bounced off parked cars, fences and hedges in a 200 metre trail of destruction has been left with a 20,000 GBP bill in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Boozy Ales Cisek - six times over the drink drive limit after a vodka binge - finally came to a halt when he crashed head first into a parked car, say police.
"I heard this roaring...
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07/06/2013 @ 11:06 (2 weeks ago)
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More than 120 British tourists have been marooned on a cruise liner stricken by heavy floods in Austria.
The holidaymakers - many of them OAPs - have been stranded since Saturday when torrential rains forced their cruise ship skipper to abandon attempts to dock in Vienna on the river Danube.
Jetties on the river have been swamped by flood...
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07/06/2013 @ 11:06 (2 weeks ago)
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A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde couple who stole over 100 IDs to rob banks are facing 12 years in jail in Poland.
Lovers Dariusz Dluga, 41 and Katrzyna Lomowska, 31, from Gdansk were nabbed after going on a four year robbing spree - using the stolen identities instead of a gun to rob banks of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Scheming former...
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06/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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A man who hung a dog from a tree with its lead after blowing his dole on a drinking binge is facing three years in jail.
Unemployed Lubomír Pleva, 33, from Rosic u Brna, the Czech Republic had a sore head when the dog that had been left outside a local supermarket while its owner was shopping had barked at him.
He took the away and lead it...
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06/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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Police were left lost for words after a teen begged cops to leave him in the prison cell and not release him after he was locked up for the night at a police station at Dortmund Main Station, Germany, for being disorderly.
Cops had tried to get him to calm down and arrested him when he refused to stop shouting, he had not been drinking or on...
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06/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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A Serbian couple were so embarrassed when they had to admit to their grandson that they could not read or write that they decided to join him at primary school.
The couple admitted that they had always had to work so hard that even their son had joined them in the fields as soon as he could and all three of them had never learned properly to...
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06/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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German prison bosses are discussing whether to scrap a plan that sees angry offenders put in pink cells to try to calm them down after a report that showed there was little hard evidence that it works.
Conservative politicians are now asking publicly whether the "Barbie rooms" should be scrapped.
After studies in 2010 suggested that putting...
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06/06/2013 @ 09:06 (2 weeks ago)
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A 28-year-old model who was crushed by a suicidal student leaping to his death is fighting to recover from horrific back injuries, say medics in Warsaw, Poland.
Victim Beata Jalocha's spine was shattered when Marek Majewski, 22, jumped 80ft to his death just as she was walking underneath his apartment window.
"It was terrible. He landed...
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05/06/2013 @ 09:06 (2 weeks ago)
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Whatever you do. don't drop off.
Drunk Ivan Tolvich started a full scale rescue drama when he climbed up a 70ft high bridge to sleep off a skinful in Belgrade, Serbia.
Horrified passers by dialed 999 when they spotted him spark out on the bridge over the Sava River laying on a steel girder barely four feet wide.
"It was a very delicate...
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05/06/2013 @ 09:06 (2 weeks ago)
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Seateo the exhausted tiger caused chaos when he took a nap on top of a tourist safari jeep on a South African reserve and used the spare wheel as a pillow.
The eight-year-old, 500lb big cat leapt on the roof at the reserve in Vrystaat and began gnawing at its makeshift headrest before nodding off.
Reserve owner John Varty - who was driving -...
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03/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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Lazy road menders have been blamed for causing massive logjam when a load of used portaloos fell off a truck on a bridge on Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
The loos scattered across the road after bumping over a pothole blocking traffic both ways for nearly three hours, say police.
Traffic police said later they had ordered highway officials to repair...
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03/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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Spanish cops are riding high after busting a drugs gang smuggling 1,000 cocaine capsules in a shipment of coal.
The capsules were found hidden in a Madrid warehouse where the 20 tonnes of coal was being prepared for shipment to Valencia.
The year-long operation by undercover drugs squad officers followed the cocaine from Buenaventura in...
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03/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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Cat lover Ana Maria Ramos has vowed to be more CLAWFUL around her pet moggy after it went on a rampage, trapping her in her kitchen and attacking her.
Horrified Ana had to dial the police after 10-year-old ginger tom Tiger lashed out as she prepared to go to work.
"I was putting my make up on when I heard a horrendous commotion going on down...
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03/06/2013 @ 10:06 (2 weeks ago)
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Burger giants McDonald's have put up a bizarre bounty of 100 free Big Macs after a life-sized statue of mascot Ronald McDonald was stolen from a branch in Muenden, Germany.
Pranksters are believed to have made off with the clown statue and the bench it perched on, worth around 600 GBP.
Now a Facebook page created by the burger chain says...
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A speeding biker has been jailed for eight months after his own terrifying video of a high-speed sprint through a city was uploaded onto YouTube by a pal.
The case would never have come to court if a the film - shot five years ago from a camera on the 31-year-old motorcyclist's handlebars - hadn't been made public, admit prosecutors in Geneva,...
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31/05/2013 @ 12:05 (3 weeks ago)
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A young driver who survived nine days trapped in his crashed car told how he survived by eating sweets and drinking rainwater.
Clubber Grigoriy Shubi, 20, had been on his way home from a night out in Klirliganskoe, Russia when he lost control of the car and plunged down an embankment.
"Both my legs and both my arms were broken and the car...
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31/05/2013 @ 12:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Indian snake charmers are to be ordered to use replica plastic or wooden substitutes in upcoming religious festivals across the country after complaints of cruelty.
Thousands of snakes are due to be worshipped next month during the Hindu festival of Nag Panchami, where the reptiles are charmed and then anointed as gods.
But now government...
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31/05/2013 @ 12:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Border guards had a right royal ssssurprise when they found four 3-foot-long royal pythons hidden in a car boot.
The reptiles listed as endangered species were found coiled up in a polystyrene box in the back of the Audi at Goumois on the French-Swiss border.
"The driver was arrested for smuggling endangered species for illegal sale," a...
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31/05/2013 @ 11:05 (3 weeks ago)
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A bizarre new gambling craze where punters bet on the sex of someone to be cremated is sweeping across a sacred Indian city.
Bookies in the Hindu city of Varanasi - which is known for its funeral pyres - are cashing in on bets being placed on the gender of the body, the place it comes from, the type of vehicle it will arrive in and the quality...
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31/05/2013 @ 11:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Kindergarten bosses have been rapped by furious parents over a new school sign that seems to show a child with a giant phallus between her legs.
The sign - outside the Kodanska school in Prague, Czech Republic - shows a beaming youngster playing with her building blocks.
But shocked parents say the artist has arranged the blocks to create a...
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30/05/2013 @ 11:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Baffled police have finally solved a shoedunit mystery after dozens of items of stolen footwear were found stashed in a fox's den in Neunkirch, Switzerland.
More than 40 pairs of trainers, boots, sandals and shoes were unearthed when a baffled local spotted a vixen trying to drag a pair of wellies into her lair.
Villagers had believed they'd...
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30/05/2013 @ 11:05 (3 weeks ago)
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A snake collector found dead among his own pets was only saved from being eaten because he was too much of a mouthful for even a giant anaconda to swallow.
Horrified police in Straubing, Germany, found more than 40 snakes slithering free around his decomposing body in his apartment, including a 30ft anaconda and four 35ft pythons.
"At least...
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30/05/2013 @ 10:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Hubert the mild-mannered carthorse caused a 100,000 GBP chain of disasters after he bolted when he was startled by a passing car horn.
Owner Zbigniew Kaminski, 61, had stopped in a village to buy cigarettes when he suddenly saw his stallion rear up and bolt past the shop.
Minutes later, a sheepish looking Hubert was grazing in a garden after...
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30/05/2013 @ 10:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Bridegrooms in central India have been ordered to provide photographs of the loos at their homes before they can qualify for a new marriage grant.
Officials in Madhya Pradesh state give a 250 GBP cash handout to young couples getting hitched but refused to hand it over unless the groom can prove his home has its own lavatory.
Now inspectors...
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30/05/2013 @ 10:05 (3 weeks ago)
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A brother and sister kept locked inside their home for nearly 20 years by their paranoid mum have spoken for the first time of their ordeal.
Maijana Stankovic, 21, and her brother Marko, 23, were kept prisoners in the family home in Pozarevac, Serbia, from the moment they were born.
They weren’t allowed to go to school, meet people, or...
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30/05/2013 @ 10:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Kind-hearted cops brought a busy motorway to a standstill to rescue these helpless ducklings after their mum was run over by a truck.
Worried motorists dialed 999 in Oberpfalz, Germany, when they spotted the days-old youngsters stranded on the central reservation.
The family had been on their way to a nearby river when their mum was cut...
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30/05/2013 @ 10:05 (3 weeks ago)
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A fraudster who used 100 bogus ID cards to swindle banks out of more than 100,000 GBP was caught when he was stopped for speeding by police - and couldn't remember who he was.
Crooked Dariusz Zyto, 41, was struck dumb when traffic cops asked for his name in Gdynia, Poland.
Police discovered he had stolen and crafted more than 100 real and...
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30/05/2013 @ 10:05 (3 weeks ago)
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This soggy owl was rescued by wildlife experts after it got so soaked in a thunderstorm it could no longer fly.
Astonished walker Maria Becker saw the waterlogged bird plummet to the ground in Schenefeld, Schleswig Holstein, Germany, and at first thought it had been shot.
But when she found the drenched owl, Maria realised its feathers had...
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29/05/2013 @ 09:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Pet dog, Mavrik, bit off more than it could chew when he unearthed a bone during a walk - that turned out to be a giant Ice Age mammoth tooth.
Amateur archeologist Andrzej Sikorski, 24, had been walking with his pet collie Mavrik in Tuszyma - in Poland's Carpathian mountains when he spotted his dog struggling to pull something from the...
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29/05/2013 @ 09:05 (3 weeks ago)
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A newspaper showing a raunchy photo of Angelina Jolie underneath the headline "What’s a woman without tits?" has come under fire in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Dani weekly paper has been accused of "laughing off" Jolie’s breast cancer after columnist Borka Rudic compared her plight with that of his friend, also suffering from breast...
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28/05/2013 @ 09:05 (3 weeks ago)
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Tough guy Steven Seagal has been showing some of his best moves to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov - taking part in a traditional dance while visiting the republic’s capital of Grozny recently.
And the actor who admits his big passion now is his music has also pledged to come back again, this time to give a concert.
Seagal who says he has...
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28/05/2013 @ 09:05 (3 weeks ago)
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It's a big job for such small shoulders, even if he will stand seven feet tall and weigh more than a ton.
But European bison calf Quintus is the first of his breed to have been born in the wild in Germany since the breed was hunted virtually to extinction nearly 100 years ago.
Now wildlife experts are hoping that the youngster - snapped here...
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24/05/2013 @ 10:05 (4 weeks ago)
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This motorist was in one load of trouble when he was stopped by police driving across Europe with what looked like the entire contents of a garden shed strapped to the roof.
Driver Lubomir Duda- halted doing 80mph on a motorway in Langenau, Germany - told officers he was moving from Poland to Tunisia and didn't want to pay for removal...
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24/05/2013 @ 10:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Spanish cops were baffled after discovering an abandoned boat washed ashore with more than one-and-a-half tones of top quality hashish carefully packed up and stowed on board.
The boat was spotted by walkers going along the coast of Tarifa in the south of Spain who raised the alarm.
The drugs were hidden in 55 packages and police are trying...
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24/05/2013 @ 10:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Rocky the pint-sized pug dog is full of life despite being paralysed in his hind legs after falling down a set of stairs at his home in Absdorf, in Tulln, Lower Austria.
Mirjam Mader, 32, who built a special wheelchair for the disabled pug said: "He was very typical for the breed, full of energy and always dashing around, unfortunately at one...
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24/05/2013 @ 10:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Tragic teenager Dominik Marzec drowned after pals persuaded him to skip school to enjoy the first sunny weather of the year with a trip to a local lake.
Marzec, 14, from Bodzentyn in Poland was reportedly a good student but his parents said he was easily lead, and had agreed when pals told him the mini lake at the old clay pit was a much better...
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23/05/2013 @ 11:05 (4 weeks ago)
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More than a million litres of illegally made bootleg alcohol has been seized in the Czech Republic after crooks purchased two giant service station petrol pump tanks - and cemented them underground.
The crooks claimed they were planning to build a petrol station and hired a builder to fit the tanks. But once the tanks had been installed the...
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23/05/2013 @ 11:05 (4 weeks ago)
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A plain-clothes cop who punched and kicked an innocent man during a riot has been given a one-year suspended sentence by a court in Warsaw, Poland.
Karol Czarneki, 27, was videoed attacking demonstrator Daniel Kaminski, 31, during an Independence Day march in the Polish capital in March 2011.
Kaminski told the court he was walking down the...
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23/05/2013 @ 11:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Passengers need a good head for heights to enjoy this viewing platform - located on top of the new cable car that is now running in the Dachstein mountain region in Styria, Austria.
In just five-and-a-half minutes passengers are transported over 3,000 feet higher up the mountain, famous for its views and also for the natural wonders like the...
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23/05/2013 @ 11:05 (4 weeks ago)
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A German tourist had a lucky escape after he decided to go underground to get a view of the Vienna sewers, and fell badly breaking several bones including his hip and his leg.
Completely unable to move things looked bleak for Gunther Heidinger, 55, who admitted that over the noise of the running water there had been no chance anyone would hear...
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23/05/2013 @ 11:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Daft thieves who broke into a museum to saw the horn off a stuffed rhino lost out because museum staff had replaced the horns weeks before with plaster copies.
Museum workers found that the popular white rhino exhibit had had its horns sawn off when they turned up for work at the "Museum Koenig" in Bonn, Germany.
The crooks broke into the...
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23/05/2013 @ 11:05 (4 weeks ago)
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A fireman made a tragic discovery when he was called out to a car accident to find the dead victim pulled from the mangled wreck was his own son.
The dead teenager was also a volunteer fireman in the local force - and so was also known to many of the other firemen that turned up for the 999 call.
The tragedy happened after firemen were...
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23/05/2013 @ 10:05 (4 weeks ago)
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A novel idea of a parking clock for outdoor adventures that could save lives has been introduced in Alpine Austria.
Drivers who set off for a climb or a hike in rocky terrain leave the clocks on the front dashboard indicating when they expect to be back. It means that at the end of the day as the car park empties - a car left behind can help...
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22/05/2013 @ 11:05 (4 weeks ago)
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The teenage daughter of a Swiss priest who dreamed of being a pop star was dragged into a car and murdered by a serial sex offender wearing an electronic tag after she posted a video of herself singing a love song on the internet.
Tragic Marie Schluchter, 19, had also posted images of herself modelling on her Facebook page, as well as singing...
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An OAP caused a crash that left this old timer a write-off after heading the wrong way down a Swiss motorway and then trying to make off.
Claudia Barth, 70, got confused while travelling down the motorway at Alpnachstad in Obwalden, Switzerland.
She was travelling from Sarnen towards Luzern at a stretch where there were roadworks - and...
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22/05/2013 @ 10:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Britain may have failed to qualify for the first ever women's naked football world cup set to take place in Berlin, Germany, but as these pictures show fans of the beautiful game will still have plenty to cheer about.
The competition will take place next month in the German capital - and teams will battle it out to take the title in the...
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22/05/2013 @ 10:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Polish BMW driver Szymon Majewski, 39, sparked a major police operation after smearing the rear of his car with ketchup and leaving hair from a black wig hanging out from the boot to make it seem as if a dead body was inside.
Dozens of motorists called cops to report what they though was a killer on his way to dispose of a victim of violent...
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21/05/2013 @ 13:05 (4 weeks ago)
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A Hungarian pensioner was killed after he was dragged off his scooter by two donkeys - that then trampled him and bit him so badly that when his body was found it was believed had been torn apart by wolves.
Pensioner Sandor Horvath, 65, was chased and pulled off the scooter at a farm in Magyarszecsod where he was visiting his farmer...
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21/05/2013 @ 13:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Performing a one-man show as Charlie Chaplin a record 4,500 times is enough to justify the award given this week to India's copy of the silent movie star.
But when coupled with the fact that Rajan Kumar, 45, has been performing for much of that time in the sweltering Indian heat in the suit that he only takes off to sleep or to shower, it makes...
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A man who rescued four lions from being put down by a circus says they are now his best friends.
Animal welfare officer Krzystof Zerdzicki, 47, from Lublin, Poland, came across the lions when colleagues were involved in forcing their circus owner to meet new standards for their care including larger cages.
He said: "The circus basically said...
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This shocking hidden camera footage shot by an undercover animal rights activist shows circus trainers beating monkeys and other animals with sticks.
The footage published last month by the Vita Animal Rights Centre shows expletive-ridden dialogue between several circus trainers trying to get two monkeys, Johnnie and Kuzi, to perform by...
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21/05/2013 @ 13:05 (4 weeks ago)
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A quad biker has told how he was nearly beheaded by a steel cable strung across a woodland track by green campaigners in Leszno, Poland.
Police say Waldek Kwiatkowski, 23, was a victim of a bid by environmentalists to stop illegal 4X4 truck racing in the woods.
Shocked Waldek said: "I felt this tremendous pain in my throat and then I was...
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A poverty stricken mum has told how she's given away her five-month-old son because she can't afford to raise him.
Heartbroken Biserka Kovacic, 34 - from Vranje, Southern Serbia, - handed son Djordie over to her best friend after realising she couldn't make ends meet.
Widow Biserka already has a daughter aged 11 and an eight-year-old son and...
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21/05/2013 @ 13:05 (4 weeks ago)
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This Russian student is one of two locked up after she and her pals thought it would be fun to pose with a sex doll outside a WWII memorial in Russia, and then to post the pic on the internet.
Wearing WWII head gear the drunk students borrowed the sex doll from a friend and walked through the park to take the pics at the memorial near the...
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21/05/2013 @ 13:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Student Kondrat Jaworski, 23, had a reason to be pissed off after he sat down in a Portaloo after several beers during an end of exam celebration - and had the cubicle turned upside down.
Police are now studying mobile phone images of the incident that left the engineering student with a cut head and covered in waste matter from the toilet bowl...
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21/05/2013 @ 13:05 (4 weeks ago)
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Solidarity hero Lech Walesa widely regarded as one of Poland's most famous living heroes is under fire back home - for committing the worst fashion crime of wearing sandals with white socks.
"How could he shame us so" wrote Polish media this week which has devoted hundreds of column inches to the subject.
The Nobel Laureate Prize winner who...
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Investigators have found 150 tonnes of rotten meat being prepared for food products as part of a country wide clampdown on the local meat Mafia.
Police and officers from the Veterinary Inspectorate in Poland raided a warehouse in Tomaszow, Poland, where they found frozen legs, hearts and stomachs stacked to the ceiling.
Veterinary...
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This rare Axolotl salamander has a reason to smile as he welcomes visitors as the star attraction at an Aquaria Fun Park in Austria.
Unlike his relatives he has not ended up struggling to escape pollution back home in Mexico or being experimented in a lab where they are a much sought after research object.
They have been almost wiped out in...
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This dog's owner nose a thing or two about first aid, at least when it came to saving the life of her beloved pet after he was taken out of her burning hose by fireman in Moedling in Lower-Austria.
Beautician Sabine Bauer, 24, said: "I was at a neighbour's for five minutes, and when I got back there was smoke and flames everywhere. I knew Chico...
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21/05/2013 @ 12:05 (4 weeks ago)
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A mum is facing jail after her baby boy was born drunk when she collapsed during a bender while she was heavily pregnant.
The 24-year-old woman passed out as she was trying to buy more booze in an off-licence in Tomaszow, Poland.
Surgeons performed an immediate emergency caesarian op but the tot was born with severe alcohol poisoning because...
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17/05/2013 @ 11:05 (1 month ago)
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The head of an animal sanctuary charity is facing jail after the bodies of 10 dead cats and dogs were discovered in shocking conditions in her apartment.
Police and wildlife officials raided the flat in Krakow, Poland, after a tip off from horrified neighbours.
Inside they found neglected cats and dogs barely alive in shocking conditions...
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It's not easy living up to your fearsome reputation as an Arctic wolf when you're covered in cute fuzz and not much bigger than a chihuahua.
But these tiny cubs taking their first steps outside their den under the watchful eyes of their proud mum Inja are certainly doing their best.
One seemed to be trying to get to grips with the chilling...
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16/05/2013 @ 13:05 (1 month ago)
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Emmi the bird-brained moggie used up one of her nine lives after she fell down a chimney when she tried to pounce on a pigeon on a roof in Ludenburg, Germany.
The baffled home owner called fire fighters when she heard the sound of mewing coming from inside her fireplace.
Rescuers using micro cameras located Emmi hanging in a narrow passage...
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16/05/2013 @ 13:05 (1 month ago)
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Angry art curators have demanded the return of 60 mini sculptures of socialist thinker Karl Marx from a display of 500 identical statues outside a gallery in Trier, Germany.
The modern art installation of bright red one-metre tall models were supposed to mark the 130th anniversary of the death of Marx, whose writings sparked the Russian...
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16/05/2013 @ 13:05 (1 month ago)
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Stork about a tricky spot to build a nest.
When these giant birds wanted to create a new home for a clutch of eggs in a city centre, they made straight for the nearest, er, crane.
Baffled building site workers found the nest complete with chicks on the top of their 100 ft high crane when they turned up for work in Vienna, Austria.
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16/05/2013 @ 13:05 (1 month ago)
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Mally the monkey owned by Canadian teen heartthrob Justin Bieber is set to be handed over to a German zoo by Friday if the singer does not claim him.
A month has passed since custom agents in Munich seized the capuchin monkey because Bieber lacked the proper paperwork, and now Mally looks set to spend the rest of his days with a group of other...
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15/05/2013 @ 14:05 (1 month ago)
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Festival organisers have hired a mini-squadron of drone aircraft to deliver beer to thirsty punters at a music festival in Limpopo, South Africa.
Drone experts Matt O'Connor and Dean Engela have attached grab handles and a remote control release mechanism to drop cans of beer on small parachutes above the crowd at the three day event in...
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German commuters don't need their watches to tell the time at this underground train station in the shipping port city of Hamburg.
Hanging above the platform are twelve 6.5-metre-long copies of the shipping containers that made the port city famous - which change colour depending on the time of day.
The spectacular lighting effects which...
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15/05/2013 @ 13:05 (1 month ago)
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This stricken 'roo has every reason to look a bit unhoppy - after breaking her arm in an accident at her zoo enclosure in Munich, Germany.
Keepers brought in vets are noticing that poorly Helena - a red kangaroo - was clearly in pain and cradling her arm.
"She was holding her arm and looked in pain. We knew something must be wrong." said a...
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15/05/2013 @ 13:05 (1 month ago)
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This Swiss youngster was born under a good star - with a star shaped mole on his arm.
Arto Karimpur was born in February 2013 at Emmenbruecke in Luzern, Switzerland, and his mum Saadet said she noticed the star shaped mark on his arm straight away.
She said: "I saw his tiny hand poking out of the blanket, and the star. Then all the doctors...
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A 97-year-old Serbian man who survived four years in a Nazi concentration camp is taking Germany and Austria to the International Court of Human Rights after both countries refused to help him with a pension in his old age.
Stojan Stojanovic from the southern town of Prokuplje said: "I had to survive on a soup that was more water than anything...
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14/05/2013 @ 12:05 (1 month ago)
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Firemen were called to cut a 2-year-old free after her hand got wedged inside a sunshade stand as she tried to pull out her favourite toy.
Trouble started when blond Chloe dropped her tiny blue plastic toy into the tube that held the sunshade at her home in Munich, Germany.
She put her hand inside to retrieve it, but with her fist closed...
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14/05/2013 @ 12:05 (1 month ago)
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A statue to Michael Jackson has gone on display in the middle of a tiny Austrian town so that fans can have a tribute to their hero.
Councillors in Mistelbach in a wine growing region north of the Austrian capital Vienna approved the request by two local women for the 30 foot statue which will go in the town centre last year.
Fan Martina...
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14/05/2013 @ 12:05 (1 month ago)
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Astonished medics thought they were on candid camera when a man walked into a hospital and put a severed arm on the reception desk - and asked for it to be sewn back on.
The Hungarian man, 37, had his arm severed while working at a rubbish recycling and landfill site at Purbach in Burgenland in eastern Austria.
Despite the fact he only had...
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14/05/2013 @ 12:05 (1 month ago)
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A Romanian patient was set alight and burned so badly that her skin melted and she stuck to the operating table after a mistake by bungling medics at a Romanian hospital.
Eliza Oprea, 24, had been admitted to hospital for an emergency operation after she was diagnosed as suffering from acute appendicitis.
But she burst into flames when...
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14/05/2013 @ 12:05 (1 month ago)
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Petrol station staff must have thought someone was acting the goat when they turned up to work to find this baby goat kid in the petrol station shop in Soest, Germany.
The kid had already munched its way through plenty of packaging before it was spotted and because the puzzled workers, who initially thought it might be a prank, couldn't work...
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13/05/2013 @ 13:05 (1 month ago)
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Bungling German police officers have apologised to Rene Koller, 28, after he woke up one day to discover himself on the front page of papers at his home in Niederkassel over a robbery at the Shell Petrol Station where he works.
The robber terrorised staff and managed to get them to hand over thousands of pounds worth of cigarettes before making...
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Forestry workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are trying to track down a man who drove his car through a lake at a local beauty spot after a bet with friends.
The stunt that happened near the central town of Tuzla was captured by mobile phone and then uploaded onto the Internet became an instant hit in the Balkans country.
But it left local...
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The widow of a trade union member suspected of having been murdered by Colombian mobsters working for a local company that was owned by Swiss food giant Nestle is vowing to press on with an attempt to sue the company in Switzerland as well as key staff.
Swiss Prosecutors announced that they had decided to not investigate the complaint made on...
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Indian city dwellers sweltering under drought and a heatwave have been scouring parks and river sides for frogs so they can carry out frog weddings in the belief this will encourage rain.
Much of the country is already suffering from serious water shortages and yesterday temperatures continued to soar reaching 46.5 C in Nagpur. Locals are...
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Zookeepers thought it was a joke when visitors complimented them on the lion cubs playing with their mother in the enclosure at Haag Zu in lower Austria.
The reason was that there were only three lions in the enclosure – two females and a male – and the male lion Simba had been sterilised before he was imported into the country as part of a...
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The captain of this cruise ship the Lady Busum boobed after driving onto a sand bank.
The wrong turn meant that the 136 passengers on board were left stranded for eight hours before rescuers could rig up a way of getting them to safety.
The cruise ship was stranded between Busum and Cuxhaven near the small island of Trischen in Germany after...
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10/05/2013 @ 09:05 (1 month ago)
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A candidate on the German version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire who lost out on a 125,000 Euro payout after trusting an overconfident teenage student in the audience has asked people to stop bullying her.
Candidate Jerome Adjalle, 32, was asked for the 125,000 Euro question: "why would somebody take to the Tribune".
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10/05/2013 @ 09:05 (1 month ago)
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Calls are growing for more routine radioactive screening at borders after a second lorry containing unshielded radioactive material was stopped on a European road – this time during spotcheck in Chiasso in Switzerland.
Only five days earlier a group of Romanians carrying unshielded nuclear material was stopped in neighbouring Austria after it...
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10/05/2013 @ 09:05 (1 month ago)
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This giant advertising hoarding may not look like a water tower but that is exactly what it is - namely a project to turn humidity in the air into drinkable water.
Locals at Bujama, which is a small city in the middle of a desert in Peru, have a shortage of drinkable water and the new advertising banner is capable of producing 96 litres of...
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10/05/2013 @ 09:05 (1 month ago)
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Drink driver Jacek Sikorski, 30, caused a long tailback after deciding he was too tired to drive home and parking his BMW on a busy city tram track before falling asleep.
The boozed up Polish man said he thought that it seemed a bit bumpy when pulling over to the side of the road in Czestochowa, in Poland.
But instead of getting out and...
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A mother duck must have been quackers after she decided to cross a busy German autobahn with her six baby ducklings behind her - and was squashed by a truck.
But the ducklings were rescued after dozens of motorists swerved round them and raised the alarm with police about the helpless baby ducklings on the busy A45 motorway at Hoehe...
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Sculptors at Madame Tussauds, Vienna, are putting the finishing touches to their latest attraction - a wax figure copy of teenie star Justin Bieber.
And they are hoping they will make a better job of it than colleagues in London where fans complained the figure looked nothing like their idol despite months of work.
Bieber worked closely with...
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10/05/2013 @ 08:05 (1 month ago)
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Cigarette smugglers messed up in a plan to smuggle a massive haul of cigarettes into Germany - by hiding them under a consignment of beach towels.
Germans are often ridiculed for their love of beach towels and their tendency to use them to hog the sun loungers, so when the massive consignment of beach towels under which the illegal cigarettes...
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10/05/2013 @ 08:05 (1 month ago)
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Neanderthal man was mostly right-handed just like modern man according to a new study by scientists of the remains of a family group of 13 individuals that lived in a cave at El Sindron in Asturias in Northern Spain.
There has been heated debate over the significance of using one or other hand best regarded as a mostly human trait like the use...
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09/05/2013 @ 10:05 (1 month ago)
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Chuck Norris has been so successful at crime-fighting in Croatia that he has now been drafted in to help a crime-fighting politician.
The Hollywood action star made headlines around the world after it was revealed store bosses had been seeing off burglars by placing a photo of the star in the window.
The trend was started by a posh bakery...
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The trend of breaking into a football club and leaving threats on the pitch to warn players of the consequences of relegation seems to be spreading – this time with 11 crosses placed on the pitch of a second division Italian side.
The crosses were to let the players at Italian team Ascoli know what their fate will be if they fail to avoid...
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Two German cops acted quickly to capture this spider using a beer glass from a local restaurant after they spotted it in a park in Munich.
The pair had been walking through the cities Olympiapark when they spotted what they thought was a stone or jogging path – which then started to move.
They realised the stone was actually a spider and...
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A Polish man was critically injured after he decided to blow up his house when he realised his wife and children had gone on a picnic without him.
Czeslaw Kaminski, 69, was so incensed when he woke to find a note from his wife to say that she had gone away for the day with the children that he decided to destroy the family home to teach her a...
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It's snow joke – Austrian police asked motorway officials to lend them a giant snowplough so they could shift tons of apples off a busy dual carriageway after a Hungarian lorry accidentally lost its load while on the way to Germany.
The faulty door which opened during the middle of the drive left a total of 26 tonnes of apples scattered along...
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Zookeepers at Schmiding Zoo in Krenglbach, Upper Austria, were shocked to find this baby kangaroo lying in the grass after it had apparently fallen out of its mother's pouch a few days after being born.
When they are born baby kangaroos are blind, hairless, and only a few centimetres long, and they use their forelegs to climb through the thick...
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A Russian man left hospitalised after he was hit by a ski rowdy who then sped off has taken the law into his own hands by releasing a video taken by his helmet camera of the incident.
The 56-year-old Russian skier, not named by police, was left with broken ribs and concussion after the accident on the Pitztaler glacier. But the unidentified...
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Pranksters who tried to steal a village maypole for a joke will have nothing to celebrate for some time after the huge tree toppled over - severing an electricity cable and then smashing into the roof of a house.
In Austria and Germany maypoles were set up to celebrate the arrival of spring but was also a tradition in which villages compete...
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Circus officials have issued an urgent appeal for thieves to return the tricycle used by their performing bear after saying that she is now refusing to eat ever since her toy was taken away.
The drama has been compared to the Madagascar 3 movie in which Sonya, a female brown bear that wears a pink tutu and has a bow in her hair, falls into a...
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08/05/2013 @ 11:05 (1 month ago)
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High-rise office staff will be able to get out quick in the event of a major fire or similar disaster by using a specially designed escape parachute.
The idea of using a parachute has been seriously discussed ever since September 11th disaster but the makers of the 'SOS Parachute' claim that their device can operate effectively from a lower...
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Scantily clad Beyonce has been blamed after a man crashed his moped as he tried to peer through his crash helmet at the pictures on a roadside billboard.
Turkish Amir Arzu, 27, was lightly injured after he smashed into the back of a car at a traffic light when he turned a corner too fast and was then apparently distracted by the images of the...
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Proud co-owner Felix Rothstein learned to his cost that cigarettes can be bad for your health after lighting up after giving his car a thorough clean – and causing an explosion that destroyed the vehicle.
Rothstein, 38, had completely washed the exterior of the car at his home in Duisburg and then set to work cleaning the inside with an...
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Four German teenagers that wanted to teach another teenager a lesson had reckoned without the boy's dad when they started laying into him in a car park at Oensingen in Solothurn, Switzerland.
The victim David Theissen, 18, had just walked out of his front door when he got into a row with the four young men who were parked in the car park near...
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German police are hunting a bowman who has been impersonating Marvel action hero Hawkeye by creating explosive arrows that in at least one case caused a massive fire that needed more than a dozen firemen to extinguish.
A police spokesman said: "Arrows are not toys, and especially arrows that have been rigged up to explode are something that we...
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Croatians who organised a best breast festival that attracted thousands of visitors have defended the idea against critics who accused them of sexism by saying the event was to raise money for a terminally ill local man.
The public watched as the judges measured, weighed and even manhandled women's breasts before voting on which were the most...
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07/05/2013 @ 11:05 (1 month ago)
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Swiss feminists have slammed a promotion that encouraged women to run in their underwear through the city of Basel in order to get a voucher for a new clothes store worth over 350 GBP.
Dressed in their underwear the women ran 375 metres through the city centre between the Schild and Hallhuber stores.
The 'Fashion Run' organised by Schild...
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Croatian London Olympics basketball player Antonija Misura described as possibly the most beautiful basketball player ever is standing as a politician for the centre right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) for the city assembly of coastal town of Sibenik.
The elections will take place on 19 May – the same day that she celebrates her 25...
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A flyer advertising a competition to find Germany's worst school pupil to promote an online teaching platform has outraged teachers across the country.
Bad grades, playing truant and getting detention will all count when the judges make their final decision.
The advert distributed across school playgrounds offers a 2,000 Euro cash prize to...
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A Swiss man seriously ill after his kidneys failed missed out on a replacement organ after his mobile phone battery went dead, and the hospital was unable to call him despite making a county wide public appeal to find him.
Local radio and television in Aargau appealed for Markus Strebel, 34, to get in touch but in the end he was unavailable...
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German motorist Uwe Schrager, 45, had his licence confiscated after he was caught deliberately crashing his car against a tree "to test the airbags".
Officers turned up at the crash site at Goslar in Lower Saxony in central Germany after another motorist reported seeing the Ford Mondeo smash into a tree.
When they arrived they found the...
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Shocked Austrian police discovered two radioactive Romanians during a routine check at the border after the pair decided to keep their food and mineral water cold by storing it next to potentially deadly radioactive material.
Gheorge Ionescu, 43, and Dorin Nicolea, 38, were pulled over by police who wanted to check what they were carrying at...
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A pair of pyjamas, and the remains of a scruffy suitcase in which its Dutch owner has scratched a chess set in the lid in which he used cardboard chess figures to pass away the time.
It was all that Dutch man Pim Boellaard had left at the end of the war, that and his life after he was sent to a succession of Nazi concentration camps for his...
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This is Schönbrunn Zoo's latest new addition an extremely rare white reindeer.
The youngster, named Lumi, the Finnish word for snow, has been enchanting visitors with her snow-coloured fur ever since she was born last week at the zoo in the Austrian capital.
At birth she weighed in at 5 kilos and, due to a freak genetic mutation, is...
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A football mad Chinese villager is getting to enjoy the beautiful game after he spent nine years and wore out 40 steel shovels building his own football pitch in a remote part of Hubei province in central China.
The man, Xia Yonghong, 47 years old, works as a teacher in Wuhan and is also an avid football fan.
He said: "I really love the...
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A Kindergarten boss in China has been arrested on suspicion of putting poisoned yoghurts outside the front door of a rival kindergarten in order to scare away parents.
Chinese police say that the man arrested Jin Hung, 42, had placed the yoghurt outside hoping that parents would withdraw their children in the scandal that followed.
The...
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A Miss Germany Contestant and Miss Saxony Anhalt Winner has had her title stripped after she sent naked pictures for use in a Turkish newspaper not realising that they were likely to end up being copied and posted on the Internet.
The sport student from Halle, Victoria Paschold, 22, was voted Miss Saxony Anhalt in 2012, was stripped off again...
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A British holiday-maker has complained after he turned up at a restaurant in Poland to find the menu items included a portion of Cervical Cancer - with chips.
Owen Durray, 32, from Kent had popped into the Bee Jays restaurant in Poznan, Poland, for dinner when he looked in the fish section of the menu and found ‘Cervical cancer served on...
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Handicapped Deng Zongcheng refused to let the fact that he was crippled by polio leave him confined to bed, and he started learning at the age of six to walk on his hands.
Deng, now aged 13, was diagnosed with polio shortly after he was born in Lilou village, Ningling county, in Henan province.
His family were devastated but both his...
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By Central European News Ltd
As a way of praying to a sea goddess spearing your cheek like a fish being caught on a hook is certainly one way to show devotion, as is demonstrated by these Chinese fisherman who are seen offering their prayers to the sea goddess Matsu by spearing their own cheeks.
The ceremony which takes place every year in May is part of the celebration to...
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Blonde German woman Maria Fisher, 23, has landed in hot water with police after her boyfriend turned her Opel into mock-up of a police car – in pink.
Police spokesman Otto Koenig said: "The car had the markings in the right place including the reflectors and at first colleagues thought it was another police car going past – but then they...
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A Danish TV show has caused a stir with its prime time format in which the host and a guest sit down on the sofa and chat as a succession of silent women undress in front of them.
The show has caused heated debate in the country after it was created by the Danish X-Factor judge Thomas Blachman, who said it was a stand against the "dickless...
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03/05/2013 @ 12:05 (2 months ago)
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Serbian football fans take the game deadly serious - and have threatened to kill players from a third division side unless they advance to the second division soon.
Players at Macva FC from the northern town of Sabac said they had not taken the threat seriously until they turn up for a training session – and found a grave together with coffin...
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Councillors in the Romanian town of Cluj have put up notices ordering locals not to use fountains as showers to wash in after complaints about soap and shampoo ending up in the water.
Local TV even showed this video shot on her mobile phone by local woman Alina Dumitru, 23, as he washed his hair in a public fountain.
She said: "I have seen...
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Startled museum bosses have been told that a tiny battered statue used every year in a nativity crib to portray Jesus is by one of Europe's most sought after gothic sculptors and is worth a cool 1 million GBP.
The discovery came after experts made a study of the statue when it was handed over as a gift to go on display at the museum of nativity...
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A patient who was raped by a male nurse while she was sedated in hospital has told how the sick assault changed her life forever in a grim tell all book of her ordeal.
Brave Manu Bayer, 49 - who waived her right to anonymity - says she was drugged and subjected to a series of degrading sex acts by the nurse while she lay helpless in the...
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Polish police have moved to arrest 23 supporters of a football club in Krakow accused of drug-dealing and violence against rivals.
The operation was unusual because none of the many victims of the gang that were hacked, slashed and stabbed were prepared to testify against them for fear of reprisals.
The gang, which touted its allegiance to...
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A visitor to a public toilet at a park in Allschwil in Basel, Switzerland, got a shock when he was confronted with a 10 foot (3.10m) snake when he went to the park in the late afternoon.
Police who were called to take charge of the snake revealed it was a Boa Constrictor that had attempted to make good its escape, but was still in bushes near...
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Visitors to Vienna are unlikely to worry too much about warm weather after the city invested in a 12 million GBP air-conditioner that pumps cold air through a network of pipes to many of the main hotels in the capital.
The giant air-conditioning plant that has been built in an underground car park uses water from the nearby River Danube to cool...
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A pregnant cow took a wrong turn while trying to get to fresh pastures after she jumped off a ramp and landed in a slurry pit.
Fortunately much of the murk had been removed so she didn't drown but there was also still enough to cushion the blow when she landed in the mess at Neudorf bei Stainz in Deutschlandsberg in Austria.
And despite the...
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Getting ready for the summer season tourists is snow joke on Europe's highest panorama road where a team of snowploughs have been working non-stop for three weeks to clear an estimated one million cubic metres of snow.
The Grossglockner High Alpine Road that travels over the Grossglockner mountain still has up to 10 meters of snow in places and...
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A local vicar is considering plans to knock down his church after it suffered from a plague of flies for more than three years that is so bad it has made it completely unusable.
Helga Duffek is the curator at the evangelist Martin-Luther church in Krumpendorf in Styria, in southern Austria, and said they had tried everything to clear out the...
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Quad a bunch of cuties. These adorable rare white tiger cubs are already earning their stripes for world conservation after being born at a zoo in Lilienfeld, Austria.
The youngsters - born four months ago at Kernhof Zoo - already make up more than one per cent of the global population of white tigers, a rare mutation of Bengal...
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A penny-pinching crook who had the bright idea of stealing lightbulbs from an apartment block's staircase is being sought by police in Chorzow, Poland.
Frustrated residents say dozens of bulbs, switches and other electrical fittings have gone missing in just six months.
Police set up a secret CCTV system in the block and filmed the...
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German police are investigating after a hyper market worker turned his forklift truck into a jousting device and attempted to spear a fellow worker after a row.
Police said that it was well known that the two men disliked each other and were often arguing, and the row escalated when one of the two men tried to spear his rival in the store in...
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News of the falling gold price has sparked a gold rush in China where locals who traditionally like to keep their savings in gold have emptied stores as fast as they can get the precious metal delivered.
At Caibai, Beijing’s largest gold merchant, there was a queue 30 feet stretching down the road and at least one customer was spotted...
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Scientists who discovered Europe's oldest wooden staircase are taking the next step in its conservation - moving it from the Bronze Age salt mine where it's survived for more than 3,500 years.
The stairs - unearthed in Hallstatt, Austria nine years ago - had been preserved in perfect condition because the salty atmosphere means...
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UN General Assembly president Vuk Jeremic has been exposed as a complete twit - after Tweeting a snap of himself meeting a fake Bono he thought was the real thing.
The Serbian politician had to climb down when other Twitter users revealed the fake to be full-time professional Bono lookalike Pavel Sfera.
"I thought it was Bono," red faced...
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With toothache in choppers this size, these brown bears at a German wildlife park had every right to be a bit grizzly.
So when staff at the Bear Wood park in Muritz decided that Siggi and Tapsi just couldn't grin and bear it any longer, they called in one of Europe's top animal dentists.
Expert Dr Marc Loose - from Hamburg - spent more...
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A college has been rapped for sexism after holding a lap-dancing style beauty contest where female students gyrated in stockings and suspenders.
Girls from Warsaw's Agricultural University in Warsaw stripped down to revealing lingerie to bump and grind on a catwalk over a male student sitting in a chair.
Then the best contestants are invited...
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A German corner shop owner saw some of his profits go up in smoke after he accepted payment for a pack of cigarettes with this non-existent 30 Euro note.
The Euro note that only come in denominations of 10, 20 and 50 and police puzzled as to why the fraudster chose to increase the risk of being caught by printing a non-existent 30 Euro...
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A Kosovan man who shot his Swiss wife dead at the bus stop when she refused to consider changing her mind about divorcing him - and then went for a beer at a local pub - has claimed her death was her own fault.
Afrim Mujaj, 45, then sat calmly watching as ambulances sped by in a bid to try and save the life of his 35-year-old wife Mirvete in...
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Swiss banker Ulrich Kuhn, 45, had a bad day when he decided to leave work early for a game of golf - and ended up stranded at the side of the road when his car burst into flames.
The banker told police that he noticed the car and started to lose power and he pulled over to the side of the road as he drove on the main road between Zurich and...
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Come on mum, I'm feeling a bit p-p-p-p-peckish.
This rare rockhopper penguin chick doesn't seem to want to wait for lunchtime as he tries to encourage his mum to feed him at Vienna's Schonbrunn Zoo in Austria.
The flightless sea birds - endangered in their natural environment in the South Atlantic - are part of a breeding programme at the...
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This football club in eastern India is praying for Buddha results - after staging a religious ceremony to worship to ground's goalposts.
More than 2,000 fans attended the two hour service at East Bengal FC in Calcutta where priests washed the posts in sacred water and decorated with holy marigold blooms.
"It may sound odd to outsiders but...
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Oddball writer Richard Avis is having the time of his life - travelling the planet looking for people who were born on the same day as him.
Richard - born on December 1 1974 in Dumfries, Scotland - has already tracked down nine so-called 'time twins' in locations as far flung as New York and Ireland.
"The idea is to track down 40 people born...
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A designer handbag worth 30,000 GBP containing 40,000 GBP of cash and jewellery was stolen from a guest checking into Vienna's exclusive Grand Hotel, say Austrian police.
Hotel CCTV footage shows a sneak thief walking calmly through the lobby after picking up the bag while hotel staff were distracted by another guest.
"The thief had either...
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A British white van man cheated death by seconds in Germany when a falling 130 crane arm cut his truck in half.
The 49-year-old worker had been sitting in his van at a building site in Munich when the arm suddenly snapped while it was winching up a 10 ton load.
"He couldn't see a thing because he was in the van," said one worker.
"But we...
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This smug looking truck thief will soon be facing justice - after speed cameras caught him fleeing the scene in Sarstedt, Germany.
The crook had just made off with a 100,000 GBP HGV from a car park but had forgotten that local speed cameras take full face snaps of drivers.
"If he'd been smarter he'd have kept to the speed limit, but if he'd...
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A mother whose newborn baby boy was found dead in a picnic hamper with his throat cut is being quizzed by police in Regensburg, Germany.
Horrified passers by had found the infant's badly decomposed body abandoned beside the River Danube.
Police say baby had been slashed across his throat with a box cutter knife.
"The infant's body was...
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A lock of hair belonging to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria that was saved by his loyal manservant Eugen Ketterl as a memento of his imperial master has been sold for 13,720 Euro at auction.
There was enormous interest in the royal lock when it was auctioned at the Dorotheum Auction House in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
The winner with...
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Bird brained thugs who took pot shots at ducks with an illegal handgun are being hunted themselves in Neurath Germany.
Astonished bird-watchers snapped the pair swigging from beer cans and firing at ducks swimming on a lake and handed the photos in to local police.
"I spend a lot of time down here, watching the birds and taking snaps. We...
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A crook who dreamed up a sick urn-er stealing hundreds of cremation casks from graveyards for their scrap metal price is facing five years in jail in the Czech Republic.
The 23-year-old thief is said to have made 15,000 GBP from more than 400 urns before he was caught.
Police spokesman Roman Koci told how he was arrested after being stopped...
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This short-sighted moggie used up one of its nine lives when it took a short cut through a zoo - and got trapped in the wolf enclosure.
But the one-eyed kitty didn't need a second look when it saw a pack of five hungry wolves closing in, and shot straight up a 35ft tree to escape.
Visitors at the Herberstein zoo in Styria, Austria, raised...
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This football club's finances are a complete stretcher case in Romania - after it emerged they have to use a wheelbarrow to get injured players off the pitch.
The bizarre home-made motorised barrow - powered by an old lawnmower engine - was snapped in use when cash-strapped League V professionals Poli Timisoara played a home fixture in...
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Mountain rescuers just had to grin and bear it when they got an emergency call out for their most bizarre accident victim ever - a 450lb brown bear.
The huge beast had fallen down a 300ft deep cave after being wounded by hunters near Gospic, Croatia.
Vets managed to tranquilise the angry bear so rescuers could strap it into a harness and...
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Firemen in Eisenstadt, Austria, had to rescue this doe-zy deer after it plunged into a garden swimming pool to cool off.
The wild beast had wandered into the property through open garage doors and seemed to find the pool irresistible on a hot day.
Rescuers first wrapped the stranded deer in a net and then winched and heaved her back on dry...
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A priest who rescued a baby badger after its mum was run over has urged his flock to set up a wildlife centre to care for it.
Father Sylwester Olszanowski - from Runowo Krajenskie, Poland - found the weeks-old cub while he was inspecting the church during renovation work.
"I heard a strange squeaking noise and went to investigate and saw...
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An astonishing haul of thousands of fake Versace designer goods has been seized by customs officials in the Czech Republic.
The 5,000 glass homeware products - worth more than 4 million GBP if they'd been real - were intercepted during a routine search at a checkpoint in Decin.
"We saw the Medusa head which is one of the Versace trademarks,"...
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Commuters in Romania thought they'd herd everything - until this farmer was snapped with two fully-grown cows in the back seat of his car.
Baffled drivers spotted the dusty pink Dacia motor weaving through traffic in Arad with its rear axle barely clearing the tarmac.
"We noticed the car was dragging a bit low. When we looked closer we...
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A sharp-nosed sniffer dog who has tracked down more than 350,000 GBP of smuggled cash in one week has been hailed a hero by Austrian border police.
Keen spaniel Bresco unearthed the hidden banknotes in just two operations in Vorarlberg on cars trying to cross the border from Switzerland.
Border police spokesman Franz Fuchsl said: "Moving...
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This picture shows the blaze that ripped through a wooden farm house at Walsrode in Germany and claimed the life of an eight-year-old boy.
The fire started in the early evening at around 20.30 and police say that the boy's mother had managed to grab her daughter and take her to safety but had been beaten back by the flames as she tried to reach...
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Baffled motorists wondered what the flock was happening - when a busy highway in Romania was invaded by more than 1,000 sheep.
The baa-my protest - staged by shepherds in Borsa - brought traffic to a standstill outside City Hall as the giant flock spread across the tarmac and into council buildings.
Shepherds from nearby Moisei are furious...
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This square-eyes trucker was taken off the road by Swiss police after putting not just one but three computers his dashboard causing a major distraction as he travelled from his base in the Czech Republic.
Traffic cops confiscated the lorry after pulling it over in Schaffhausen at Oensingen in Solothurn, Switzerlandand.
The Czech driver said...
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23/04/2013 @ 17:04 (2 months ago)
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Archaeologists excavating the inner courtyard of a former Dominican monastery in Cluj-Napoca have been left baffled after discovering the bodies of a young couple who were buried holding hands.
Experts from the Cluj-Napoca Institute of Archaeology and History of Art have already uncovered several bodies from what they believe was the former...
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This poor deer found that the grass may be greener on the other side but getting there is not always easy.
The young female deer had been tempted by the opportunity to graze on grass at the camping site in Braunau in northern Austria on the border with Germany.
It managed to get its head and most of its body through the rails but got its...
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These logs caused a log jam on the motorway in Bad Voslau, Austria, after the transporter toppled over sending the timber scattered over the busy motorway.
A police spokesman said: "There were luckily no major injuries of the traffic was completely blocked for four hours. The lorry began to skid on the road after heavy rain and then toppled...
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A three-year-old survived after she fell from a fourth floor balcony after climbing on the edge to watch the trains when she landed on a canvas canopy and then bounced onto the grass in Munich, Germany.
Two-year-old Maria Kohler had been alone with her father Ray, 45, when she scrambled onto the balcony and then slipped and fell but amazingly...
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A British artist has created a memorial to Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles alongside the existing shrine to the singer so that he doesn't feel lonely in the afterlife.
The fact that the chimp is not yet dead and is in fact living at an animal sanctuary in Florida seems to have little impact on the decision to go ahead with the project...
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23/04/2013 @ 16:04 (2 months ago)
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A hotel owner in Austria says military training he got in Sweden helped him to survive after he was trapped for four days in his deserted hotel without food or water or central heating.
Swedish born Thomas Fleetwood, 58, was doing a final check at the Hotel Eden in the Austrian ski resort of Bad Gastein when the tiny one person lift broke down...
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Romanian police are carrying out an investigation after a suspected young mother abandoned her newborn baby in the courtyard of a hospital where it was grabbed and eaten by stray dogs.
Nurse Anca Radesucu, 43, spotted the drama after she opened a window at the hospital at Targu Carbunesti at Gorj county in south-west Romania.
She raised the...
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20/04/2013 @ 16:04 (2 months ago)
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Motorists in Naples have been hit by a series of bizarre wheel thefts by scrap metal crooks who have moved in on the city, sat Italian police.
Wheels, manhole covers and even brass handles on front doors have all been targeted by the gang working their way through the city, say officials.
One victim Gian Paolo told local media: "I got up...
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20/04/2013 @ 15:04 (2 months ago)
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Shocked homeowner Alexander Reiner couldn't believe his eyes when he saw smoke coming from the swimming pool that he was filling and ran over to find it had caught fire.
The Austrian man, 46, had been filling up the swimming pool in the garden of his house in Leonding in the province of Upper Austria to start to take advantage of the newly...
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Being born at Easter was handy for these three hatchlings as it meant there were plenty of spare Easter egg baskets around to double up as a nest.
Experts at the bird of prey Centre at Schloss Rosenburg in Lower Austria swooped to remove all for eggs from the nest of their parents and replaced them with dummies so that the real eggs could be...
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Lazy Romanian roadworkers who could not be bothered to repair holes when marking up the street simply painted over the potholes.
These snaps show that the holes were untouched when the road work gang was carrying out their spring clean.
Romania has extensive snowfalls every year with some communities under snow for months at a time - and the...
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A wealthy businessman who foiled a assassin's bid to murder him has turned the tables on his would-be killer - by putting a 20,000 GBP contract on the hitman's head.
Multi-millionaire Vadim - from Odessa, the Ukraine - survived after fighting off his attacker, who'd been armed with a steel bar.
Now the businessman has placed an advert...
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A gem-encrusted gold Farberge-style egg worth more than 1 million GBP has been unearthed by French traffic police in a routine car search near the Swiss border.
Police pulled over the BMW saloon at a document check roadblock because it looked "shabby and suspicious."
Inside the astonished officers found the solid gold egg set with diamonds,...
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Swiss festival goers torched a giant figure of a mythical Boog snowman to kiss goodbye to winter - only to predict one on the worst summers ever.
Traditionalists believe that the speed with which the Boog - the Swiss version of the bogeyman - loses its head can reveal how dry or wet the coming summer will be.
"The Boog is burned at the...
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17/04/2013 @ 15:04 (2 months ago)
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A Kuwaiti tourist who wanted to show his children snow for the first time slipped up when he drove his luxury hire car straight onto a ski piste.
Baffled skiers found the stranded top-of-the-range BMW 7 series abandoned in the middle of the slope at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Police eventually tracked it down to a wealthy family of...
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This untidy trucker was taken off the road by Swiss police after littering his windscreen with so many souvenirs he could barely see the road.
Traffic cops confiscated the lorry after pulling it over in Schaffhausen and fined the 44-year-old Lithuanian driver 1,400 GBP for having a dangerous vehicle.
"There were so many flags, banners,...
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Tomb raiders who stole remains from an ancient Roman grave during an official guided tour have been condemned by archeologists in Brugg, Switzerland.
The ceramic funeral urn - believed to contain a gladiator's remains -disappeared during a night time tour of excavations of a 1,800-year-old graveyard.
Officials believe one of the 100 people...
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Romanians caused a traffic jam after they blocked the road when they scrambled to gather up tonnes of apples that were spilt over a road when a huge truck crashed at Bistrita-Nasaud in northern Romania.
Police said that the driver had crashed into a ditch for unknown reasons and had been helped out by locals who saw that he was unharmed.
But...
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17/04/2013 @ 10:04 (2 months ago)
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A teenage church bell ringer almost died after he pulled the rope to announce the start of mass - and was hit on the head by a 40 kilo bell.
Other church goers rushed 18-year-old Daniel Jaworski to hospital in Lublin where doctors said it was a miracle he a alive.
They believe the 40 kilo bell that left him with a fractured skull and a cut...
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The remains of a German soldier regarded as the world's greatest ever tank ace have been found in a grave the Czech Republic.
The remains of Kurt Knispel - who was the tank warfare equivalent of what the Red Baron was to flight - were found by historians at the Moravian Museum in Vrbovec lying in an unmarked grave for German soldiers at a...
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It must have seemed like a wheely good idea for a quick getaway at the time.
But when metal thieves in Dortmund, Germany, decided to use a supermarket cart to carry off their loot, any shopper could have told them they were, frankly, off their trollies.
Police found the 35-year-old woman and a man aged 57 struggling to get the trolley moving...
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Lovestruck Vitaly Shakhnazarov has waited at the same bus stop for two months - just to meet a girl he fell for while they stood in the queue for two minutes.
Besotted Vitaly - from Irkutsk, Russia - fell head over heels for the girl he knows only as Mariana as they chatted while she waited for a number 80 bus.
"We liked each other straight...
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A group of gangsta rappers posing with machine guns as they filmed a music video were arrested by a police SWAT squad in Germany after terrified passers by mistook them for the real thing.
The 12 musicians - wearing face masks and brandishing firearms - were surrounded by 25 heavily armed police commandos in Munich and detained in a special...
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13/04/2013 @ 17:04 (2 months ago)
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Germany's most famous cat napping victim has died of old age a year after a row was settled between his new owner and the first owner that had lost him an incredible 16 years before.
Tomcat Poldi, 17, was originally owned by Monika Moser who had him for a year and had even tattooed her details on the pet in case he got lost.
But after a year...
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French rugby star Sebatien Chabal is to try his hand as a TV star - in a bizarre series of ads for holidays in Switzerland.
The huge bearded forward - knows as the Caveman - will be shown learning how to yodel, making smoked Swiss cheese with holes and taking part in the oddball local sport of flag throwing.
Swiss Tourist Board spokeswoman...
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13/04/2013 @ 16:04 (2 months ago)
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It could be two much, even for fans of brotherly - or sisterly - love.
Because the world's largest collection of twins is heading to the Ossiacher See in Carinthia, Austria, to celebrate the ultimate family break.
Organisers say they're expecting more than 100 sets of twins at the event next month (May).
The event began more then a decade...
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Oddball star John Malkovich has revealed how he once dreamed of becoming a member of the Vienna Boys Choir.
The Hollywood actor had been a guest of honour at a concert by the world famous singers in the Austrian capital in their new concert hall opened in December last year.
As well as a state-of-the-art concert hall for the world famous...
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A dentist caught secretly filming a woman while she used a bar's ladies' loo has been fined 4,800 GBP by police in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Baffled victim Sandra Duerrer, 29, saw a smart phone slide under the loo's communal wall from the next cubicle and assumed another women had dropped it from her handbag.
But as she waited outside the door to...
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12/04/2013 @ 16:04 (2 months ago)
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This soccer match was cut short in the first half after an axe wielding man ran onto the pitch and started swinging at the players.
The game was axed and police called when Gheorgei Nikloescu ran onto the pitch set up as a temporary location to allow the game to go ahead between AS Borsa and Aries Mihai Viteazul because the Borsa pitch was...
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A lock of hair belonging to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria that was saved by his loyal manservant Eugen Ketterl as a memento of his imperial master is to be put up for auction.
Vienna based auctioneers the Dorotheum are hoping to get around 500 GBP for the lock of hair when it goes under the hammer on the 25th April.
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Wacky artist Albert Krtalic reckons he's a cut above other creators - after learning how to use an industrial angle grinder to draw landscapes.
Krtalic - from Makarska, Croatia - has put on a one-man show of the bizarre engravings created on ceramic surfaces.
"I'm a self-taught artist so I think I'm more open to experimenting with different...
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A British woman hailed as a type of Mother Theresa for dogs who gave up everything she owned so she could run a shelter for stray dogs in India's southern Kerala state is looking for a successor.
Avis Lyons, 70, sold her home in London and everything in it and with just what she could carry set off to build a dog shelter and sanctuary in...
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A temple in India that offers free food has become so popular it is now applying to be included in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest soup kitchen.
Every day the free kitchen at the Golden Temple in India's northern Punjab state serves up food for 200,000 visitors during the week, rising to 300,000 at the weekend.
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This baby rhino is being hailed as a sensation as it is the first time a calf has been born to a hand-raised rhino, weakening the argument of animal activists who say hand reared wild animals can never live a normal life or reproduce.
"This is the first calf born in the wild in India from a rhino that had been hand-raised, rehabilitated and...
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11/04/2013 @ 15:04 (2 months ago)
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A German man whose pals always told him he looked like Russian leader Vladimir Putin ended up in trouble with the police after he snapped up a fake driving licence in the name of his double at a flea market.
Lucas Baier, 27, said: "I was always being ribbed about it, and on holiday in Russia I saw a realistic looking driving licence in his...
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This Puss ended up with an unexpected wash and blow dry after getting stuck in its owners car when he drove it to a car wash in a neighbouring town in Austria.
Owner Reinhold Pratl, 53, said that he had heard a screeching noise when he parked at the car wash, but thought it was a noise from the engine.
It was only when he drove out of the...
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Swiss experts studying the body of a 5,300-year-old man frozen in a glacier have found he suffered from sever tooth decay caused by sugar in his bread diet.
A 3D reconstructions of his skull showed that he also suffered from plaque and that his teeth had started to come loose from eating a diet of too much bread.
The experts found that the...
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A dentist who made headline news around the world after his finger was cut off by thieves and who then gave an artist's impression of the attacker's dirty, twisted teeth has gone on trial accused of making it all up.
Prosecutors say that despite months of work and the use of sniffer dogs, police failed to find any trace of the attackers that...
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Staff at the world's oldest zoo in the Austrian capital Vienna are hoping they will also be third time lucky after it was revealed their two pandas Yang Yang and Long Hui have again mated several times.
Although this is not unusual for other mammals, it is a rare sensation for giant pandas who are notoriously difficult to encourage to...
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10/04/2013 @ 18:04 (2 months ago)
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Death mystery Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's 49-metre yacht has been snapped up for five million GBP by an anonymous buyer in Croatia.
The luxury craft - called Thunder B - was put up for sale through brokers De Valk Yachts in France following the tycoon's apparent suicide at his home in Berkshire last month. It was sold to him for 12...
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Czech police are hunting a conman who is travelling round the country claiming to offer cheap sacks of potatoes for OAPs - and after offering to carry the heavy load to the kitchen then uses the fact he is inside to make off with cash and valuables.
So far more than a dozen people have complained that handbags, wallets and jewellery have been...
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This swan brought traffic to a standstill in Obermenzing, Munich, Germany when it stopped to lay an egg on a busy city road.
Motorists were left amazed as the swan refused to budge despite the traffic speeding past and insisted on remaining by its egg - seemingly without any concern over the problems she was causing.
Would be drivers who...
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A diplomatic war of words between Germany and Poland over wartime guilt stepped up a notch this week after a respected Polish magazine "Uwazam Rze" published a picture of German president Angela Merkel as a concentration camp prisoner on its front cover.
With stripy pyjamas and a head covering, Merkel is pictured behind barbed wire in a Nazi...
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A Porsche driver lost his head when his sports car skidded under a crash barrier in a high speed smash in Idstein, Germany.
The 58-year-old motorist - identified as Norbert Koenig by police - died instantly when the low lying car was squashed under the barrier chopping off his head in the process, say paramedics.
Rescuers had been trying to...
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10/04/2013 @ 17:04 (2 months ago)
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German singer Kim Petras latest cover of Chris Brown's "Don't Wake Me Up" has surpassed one million views on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aA3DwOqHvkunveiled)
It is the latest high profile success from the talented 21-year-old who now has a global fan base thanks to her online presence, a remarkable achievement for the blonde singer...
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10/04/2013 @ 16:04 (2 months ago)
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He may stand as the defender of the poor but the teddy bear version of Pope Francis is unlikely to end up in the bedrooms of very many poor children after it went on the market with a price tag of over 200 GBP per toy.
The Pope Francis teddy bear is the latest edition to the family of Bavarian teddy bear manufacturer Hermann-Spielwaren. The...
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09/04/2013 @ 12:04 (2 months ago)
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Justin Bieber's lonely monkey Mally could end up spending months in the German animal shelter after the star was given an extension to allow him to sort out the paperwork needed to get the baby monkey back.
Normally capuchin monkeys remain with their mothers for at least the first year of their life but Bieber's pet given to him for his...
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Vandals in Germany gave a new meaning to the word "penis ring" when they painted a giant 15 metre long white penis onto the road at the German Nürburgring racing track.
Staff discovered the member when they turned up for work in the morning and police estimate that the vandals must have needed at least 20 litres of white paint for creating...
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09/04/2013 @ 11:04 (2 months ago)
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The oldest surviving inmate of the Nazi’s Dachau death camp has died aged 100.
Father Leon Stepniak, who was born March 29, 1913, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940 in Klebowie, Poland, and transported to the infamous extermination camp.
After the war he returned to Poznan in Poland where he died at the weekend.
At one stage during a...
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Slovak woman Katarina Chladova is demanding money for corrective surgery after a plastic surgeon at a private clinic in her home country left her with breasts that look like this.
She said: "I wanted them to be a little bit larger and after reading the literature from the surgeon in Nitra decided to spend 3,300 GBP on the operation two years...
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Romanian lawyer Madalin Ciculescu, 34, is suing his local Orthodox bishop Constantin Argatu and four priests for fraud after claiming they failed to properly exercise flatulent demons that were forcing him out of his home and law practice at Pitesti in Arges County in central Romania.
He accused the five of leaving behind an unholy mess after...
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08/04/2013 @ 18:04 (2 months ago)
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A greengrocer has become the head of a bizarre religious cult in eastern India after declaring a giant pumpkin to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Shiva.
Umesh Kumar, 59, discovered the huge oval squash in a routine delivery of stock to his shop in Dundibagh, Bihar state.
"As soon as I saw it, I was struck immediately by the intuition...
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Pressure is growing on German officials to keep the baby capuchin monkey away from its popstar owner Justin Bieber after he was given the animal as a 19th birthday present and then illegally transported it to Germany on board a private jet.
German customs officers seized the baby monkey and handed it over to a sanctuary where it was discovered...
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A hapless mechanic who pranged a customer's prized classic Mercedes sports car on an unofficial test drive is facing a 500,000 GBP bill in Germany.
The rare 1954 300SL sports car - with its distinctive gull wing doors - had been left at the garage in Pleidelsheim for a routine service,
But mechanic Gilsroy Mansen, 26, couldn't resist taking...
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Horrified paraglider Marcel Pfeffer has told how he plunged into a near lethal bungee jump - as his 'chute got caught on a live 14,000 volt electricity cable.
Marcel, 46, from Eptingen, Switzerland, was falling to earth after his parachute failed during a routine flight.
He was stopped from hitting the ground when his 'chute lines became...
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As every mum knows, parenthood comes with some big bills.
But none much bigger than this whopper from a huge Dalmatian pelican feeding her new chicks at Austria's Schonbrunn zoo in Vienna.
The two chicks - which hatched completely bald - shelter under their mum while seabird experts keep a watchful eye over their progress.
The breed - now...
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Fishermen lost for days during an expedition in frozen Siberia are being sued for compensation for emotional distress by the wife of the pal they confessed to eating to stay alive.
Survivor Alexander Abdullaev, 37, caused consternation when he admitted that he and a friend ate their pal 44-year-old pal Andrei Kurochkin after he'd frozen to...
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Premiership star Aleksandar Kolarov is facing a sex scandal over claims that he's cheating on his wife with a blonde folk singer in his Serbian homeland.
Local media say the Manchester City defender is secretly seeing star Natasa Bekvalac and was his special guest when his national side took on Scotland last month in a World Cup...
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03/04/2013 @ 14:04 (3 months ago)
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A dentist who told how thieves cut off one of his fingers in a brutal robbery is facing fraud charges in Germany after police accused him of making up the attack.
Phillipp Daecher, 43 - from Fichtenwalde - sparked a Europe-wide search for the thugs when he created an artist's impression of one the gang's twisted, rotten teeth.
Daecher had...
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02/04/2013 @ 15:04 (3 months ago)
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A factory worker is suing her boss after he made her jog around the building because she was slacking.
Ionela Lungu, 23, says her employer humiliated her by forcing her to run 250 laps of the plant in Hunedoara, Romania, so she could keep her job.
"I was running for three hours and covered 15 kilometres. Everyone was watching me and laughing...
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Indian authorities have brought in a race of 'super monkeys' to protect VIP homes over-run by other primates in the capital New Delhi.
The tame Gray langurs are supposed to scare off troupes of wild rhesus monkeys who raid homes on the city for food.
So far, the monkey security guards of have been deployed at the home of the Chief Justice of...
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A daredevil skier who filmed himself being towed by a train along a snowy railway track is being hunted by police in Poland.
Footage of the stunt shows the skier attaching himself to the back of the Polish railways train with a tow rope while passengers are getting on and off in a rural station.
And as the train accelerates away, the...
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A trucker who dug a 150ft long tunnel from his garden to reach a crude oil pipeline has been arrested by Russian police at Novosibirsk in Siberia.
The 52-year-old man had admitted he spent three years building the tunnel leading to the huge Omsk-Irkutsk pipeline, which pumps 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day to China.
But he claims his scam...
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A freezing demonstrator nipped out in just his swimming trunks in sub-zero Spring temperatures in Moscow - to complain about the cold outside the city's weather centre.
The protester - snapped outside the Russian capital's Hydro-Meteorological Center - became a hit on Twitter after one user Tweeted the picture with the caption 'Let Summer Come...
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An orangutan who's made a monkey of her keepers by learning to build her own tools has been given a round-the-clock security guard to foil her escape bids.
Zoo staff in Frankfurt, Germany, have been driven ape by female Sirih who has developed an obsession with creating tools to dismantle parts of her enclosure.
"She messes with everything,...
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28/03/2013 @ 16:03 (3 months ago)
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Scientist Klaus Beier showed his balls of steel in a bizarre record bid - to crack the longest ever marble run with a specially built ball-bearing.
Klaus - from Cologne, Germany - spent four weeks constructing a special track for the bid that allowed the steel ball to travel for 25 minutes before it came to a halt.
Officials clocked the...
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A forgery gang who printed more than 500,000 GBP in fake 50 GBP notes and Euros has been arrested in Croatia.
Police seized forged Euros worth more than 200,000 GBP and dozens of sheets of British 50 GBP currency waiting to be cut into individual banknotes.
Officials say 18 people were arrested in raids in five cities across the country.
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A bizarre ancient version of darts where players dream up the winning score is baffling gambling officials in northern India.
The game - called Thoh tim - involves locals in remote Meghalaya state betting on how many arrows they and their competitors can make stick in a single target.
And they gamble using only numbers that have come to them...
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27/03/2013 @ 14:03 (3 months ago)
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Shoplifters caught with a fortune in stolen luxury food in the boot of their car were seized by French border police trying to smuggle the haul back to Germany.
The gang - three Romanian nationals - were seized on the Basel - Lysbüchel border crossing when they were unable to produce any receipts for their haul.
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26/03/2013 @ 13:03 (3 months ago)
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Customs guards in Switzerland have stubbed out a massive cigarette trafficking gang accused of smuggling more than 1.6 million smokes across the border.
The scam - bringing in cigarettes from Italy to avoid tax and import duties - was discovered when officials in La Drossa carried out a routine search of a van and found it crammed with cartons...
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23/03/2013 @ 15:03 (3 months ago)
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Horrified warehouse staff went bananas after one of the most aggressive venomous spiders in the world leapt out of a crate of fruit in Prague, Czech Republic.
Terrified workers dialed 999 as the 10-inch wide huntsman spider - whose bite can cause heart failure - jumped from a box of bananas from Ghana.
Experts say the spider - which ambushes...
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21/03/2013 @ 15:03 (3 months ago)
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Cat show organisers are being sued in Slovakia after a pedestrian broke her nose on a billboard advertising the event.
Victim Veronika Citatelka said: "What a stupid place to put a pole - right in the middle of the pavement. It almost knocked me out."
Town Hall officials in Bratislava have apologised for the accident, and say they will force...
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A 50 million GBP new railway line has ground to a halt in northern India because its route would take it through the graves of fallen soldiers from the days of British Raj.
Historic monument officials in Lucknow have refused to give permission for the new line because it would disturb the British soldiers' tombs.
The soldiers have been...
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20/03/2013 @ 15:03 (3 months ago)
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A teenage girl born without arms has astonished the art world by becoming a celebrity painter using just her feet.
Talented Dejana Backo, 19, has amazed fans with her works in Backa Palanka, Serbia, and has already staged a series of exhibitions.
And local tennis star and Wimbledon champ Novak Djokovic is said to be a supporter after she...
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D'oe! This poor deer had a rail hard time - when she managed to get trapped twice within seconds.
The young beast had first managed to squeeze its head through the bars of a garden gate but got stuck half way through.
Then within seconds of being released by police she sprinted off - only to get trapped again in a wire fence.
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A primary school teacher who let pupils ogle sexy snaps of her on her laptop has been suspended by education officials in Trencin, Slovakia.
The goggle-eyed youngsters got an eyeful when she loaned them the computer and they found raunchy photos of her posing in sexy lingerie.
One photo shows the brunette teacher wearing a basque and...
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Cards fan Jerko Kovac, 100, has trumped his rivals by claiming to be the oldest bridge player in the world.
Jerko - from Dubrovnik, Croatia - is a regular at competitive tournaments and weekly club friendlies.
"I started playing bridge as a young man and I absolutely loved it straight away," he explained.
"It's the reason why I'm this old...
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19/03/2013 @ 13:03 (3 months ago)
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A cavalry officer who died in the days of the British Raj has been declared a saint in India - after worshippers claimed he smokes cigarettes left at his tomb.
Captain F. Wale - or Kaptan Shah Baba as he was known to his 1st Sikh lancers - was cut down during a fierce battle with nationalists in Lucknow in 1858.
But now locals have made...
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16/03/2013 @ 15:03 (3 months ago)
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The service might be paw, and you'd never find it in any Ruff Guide.
But customers and wolfing down the food at this trendy restaurant in Vienna, Austria - just for dogs.
And despite the menu being a bit of a dog's dinner, owner Daniela Sattler, 34, is already thinking of opening up a chain of the canine cafes.
"Our food is homecooked and...
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A beautiful TV presenter has told how she's given up showbiz to become a full time carer for terminally ill hospice patients.
Austrian star Cathy Zimmermann, 31, stripped off for Playboy magazine this week as she explained how she'll bring a smile to the faces of patients facing their final days in Vienna.
The former local Strictly Come...
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16/03/2013 @ 14:03 (3 months ago)
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A girl whose world has literally been turned upside down has baffled scientists studying her rare condition.
Council worker Bojana Danilovic, 28, sees everything the wrong way up because of a freak connection in the way her brain processes images.
That means Bojana has to have a special upside down computer screen and keyboard, reads papers...
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15/03/2013 @ 15:03 (3 months ago)
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Flaky traffic wardens slipped up in Aachen, Germany - when they left a parking ticket on a full-sized snow sculpture of a Volkswagen Beetle.
Pranksters had built the car overnight in a no-parking zone in the city complete with outlines for its headlights, windscreens and even the distinctive VW badge on the bonnet.
"It was incredibly...
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A pair of Russian 007 fans have created a full size remote control car controlled by an iPad which they can start, steer and stop at the click of a button.
The car - a clapped out Opel Vectra with 300,000 miles on the clock - has been converted with state of the art computer chips, relays and switches that link cameras in the front and rear...
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14/03/2013 @ 17:03 (3 months ago)
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Soft-hearted farmer Hazbija Mujkovic has spared this bizarre two-legged goat from the slaughterhouse after raising the kid when its mum rejected it.
Hazbija was astonished when the baby goat was born on his farm in Novi Pazar, Serbia, to a perfectly normal mum and ram.
"As a farmer I'm not supposed to be sentimental but I couldn't help...
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Holy Moley! He may be wrinkled, goofy and completely bald, this bizarre creature and his pals have become the unlikely new starts of a zoo in Austria.
The naked mole rats - among the most mysterious creatures on the planet - have gone on show in a new breeding enclosure at Schonbrunn Zoo, in Vienna.
"We were quite surprised they've been so...
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13/03/2013 @ 13:03 (3 months ago)
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A missing Rembrandt masterpiece stolen in a museum robbery seven years ago has been seized by police in Serbia.
The work - 'Portrait of Rembrandt's Father' - was recovered in Sremska Mitrovica during a police raid.
The Old Master's works can often reach prices of more than 20 million GBP.
Four suspects have been arrested, say...
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13/03/2013 @ 12:03 (3 months ago)
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This pony ended up in a hole lot of trouble when she fell down a giant drain after escaping from her stable.
Startled passers by dialled 999 when they saw the trapped horse's head sticking out of the hole in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Fire service spokesman Martin Kasal explained: "The problem was that the horse was so firmly wedged into...
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12/03/2013 @ 13:03 (3 months ago)
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Devoted dog owner Pavel Stastna has told how we nearly drowned trying to save his pet pooch from a frozen lake.
Horrified Pavel, 46, watched on powerless as his mutt Piotr fell through thin ice and disappeared under the water in Letovice, Czech Republic.
"I didn't even think about it. I just ran across the ice to save him.
"All of a...
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This is the horrifying moment when a motorist took a wrong turn down a one way tunnel and tried to do an about face into fast moving traffic in Berghofen, Germany.
The driver - caught here on CCTV footage - came to a sudden halt halfway down the tunnel before performing a three point turn and tried to go back the way he'd come.
But after...
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A serial robber in Italy who staged a series of raids wearing a mask that made him look like Silvio Berlusconi has been arrested by local police.
The 35-year-old alleged crook named as Raffaele Bevivino from the southern town of Vomero terrorised staff at banks and post offices in his local region using a gun to make off with hundreds of...
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08/03/2013 @ 16:03 (3 months ago)
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D-oe! This tiny deer got her self into trouble when she stuck her neck out trying to nibble tempting veg in a garden allotment.
After poking her head through the fence, she found she was trapped when she couldn't pull it back.
The young deer was stuck until astonished police officers in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, came across it during a...
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07/03/2013 @ 12:03 (3 months ago)
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A wolf snared by poachers survived for five weeks with her leg in a trap by eating snow and insects, say wildlife officials in Elk, Poland.
The wolf - a protected species - was found trussed to a tree by foresters who stumbled across the illegal trap in remote woodlands.
"Her leg was horribly swollen where she'd been chewing at it...
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A horrified Maserati owner watched her 100,000 GBP supercar go up in smoke after an arson attack in Munich, Germany.
Firefighters say the 400 bhp Quattroporte V belonging to German fashion designer Sarah Kern was gutted in the blaze, so intense it melted the wheels and parts of the engine.
"There were no electrical or fuel line faults," said...
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Russia's first glossy magazine for lesbians has gone on sale in Moscow amid growing anti-gay protests and a new law set to ban "homosexual propaganda" nationwide.
The mag - called Agens - carries fashion features on men's clothes that fit women and women's true life stories about coming out in Russia, where single-sex relationships are still...
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A champion kick-boxer is facing court in Russia after putting his foot in it at a war memorial.
Former national squad member Givi Sotsuk was snapped with his foot in the face of a statue in Tomsk dedicated to medics who'd died in World War II.
The picture is said to have outraged officials when it emerged on a social networking site to show...
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When carpenter Markus Meyer urges women to do what comes naturally, he really means it.
Because Meyer, 29, is making a fortune from a new range of eco-dildos made entirely of wood.
"I don't understand why women want to use plastics made from chemicals and poisons on their body when they could use something made entirely by nature," explained...
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Shocked police examining a haul of mobile phones found in a car boot discovered they were really secret stun guns capable of delivering jolts of more than one million volts.
The guns - powerful enough to knock a man off his feet - were found in Munich, Germany, when traffic police pulled over a car for a routine check.
In the boot they found...
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02/03/2013 @ 14:03 (4 months ago)
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Ukraine's Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych has been threatened with Star Wars unless he lifts ban on a political party that has Darth Vader at its head.
The Star Wars villain confronted the justice minister outside his offices in Kyiv earlier this week to demand that he lifts the ban on the country's "Internet party" or else face the...
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01/03/2013 @ 13:03 (4 months ago)
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Enterprising Czech thieves who set up their own oil line from an abandoned house direct to a nearby refinery were able to siphon off thousands of litres of fuel before they were arrested.
The two men set up their operation in Litomerice close to the oil refinery fence from where they tapped into a pipe line and syphoned off at least two...
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Animal rights campaigners have launched a worldwide appeal to free a circus hippo being kept in a giant bath tub in southern Germany.
Activists say four ton Poppaa - who retired from performances at the Krone Circus in Munich two years ago - swims in a makeshift tank so narrow she can barely turn around in it.
Backers at the Free The Hippo...
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28/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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Astonishing online footage of an eight-year-old girl driving her dad's car while he urges her to go faster has sparked a police inquiry in Russia.
A five minute film shows little Anastasia Mikulchik being told to "give it some gas" until she's doing more than 60 mph in the Audi A6 saloon.
The film was originally uploaded onto a local social...
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28/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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Fugitive Darius Olewski blew it when he tried to escape in a secret passage in his home - when he sneezed and led police right to his hiding place.
Olewski, 49 - on the run for dodging tens of thousands of pounds in child maintenance payments - had dug a six feet deep hole under a table in his hall in Pruszkow, Poland.
Then he covered it...
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28/02/2013 @ 11:02 (4 months ago)
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A three months pregnant children's TV host is recovering after fainting on a live science show explaining the importance of oxygen.
Presenter Zlata Muck's eyes began to roll backwards before she fell pole-axed into the scenery behind her, astonishing footage of the drama shows.
She'd just told viewers on the HTV show School Hour in Croatia...
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28/02/2013 @ 11:02 (4 months ago)
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Officers from an elite police academy have been disciplined after a picture of them posing as gangsta rappers with their service handguns emerged on Facebook.
The nine officers - from a training school in Sremska Kamenica, Croatia - were caught pulling classic urban gangster poses for a snap to celebrate the end of their course.
The picture...
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27/02/2013 @ 15:02 (4 months ago)
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Herbal healers in southern India say they've been udderly swamped by a sudden boom in demand for medicine made from cow urine.
Producers in Pajeer claim the traditional treatment - made from distilled heifer wee - can cure everything from kidney disease to piles.
Govanithashraya Trust manager Santhosh Kumar - which makes the potion -...
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26/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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Forgers who used hollowed out loaves of bread to hide 65,000 GBP of dodgy dough have been rounded up by police in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
The six-man gang were caught when police tracked down their printing works in Rostov-on-Don which had been churning out tens of thousands of fake roubles and Ukrainian hryvnia banknotes.
Inside, they found...
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26/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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These busty babes were certainly feeling a nip in the air - when they took part in an eye-popping topless sledging contest in Germany.
The girls - who wore nothing but their panties - were joined by male competitors for the saucy tobogganing competition down a 100 metre course in Altenberg.
Thousands of cheering fans watched the girls hurtle...
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A suspected mafia mob leader denying extortion charges has been put in the frame after he posted a snap of himself brandishing two deadly handguns on Facebook.
Adrian Corduneanu - said to be the head of one of the most violent crime families in Moldova - uses the profile to show himself as a family man, posing with his grandmother as they sing...
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23/02/2013 @ 14:02 (4 months ago)
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Right wing soccer thugs in Poland are facing racism charges after they staged a sick sideshow where fans played "Hit the Jew" with ninja throwing stars.
The fans - from LKS Lodz - paid 40p for three goes at hitting a model dressed up as a player from rival team, Widzew Lodz, which historically had a large following of Jewish supporters.
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22/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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A host of celebrities like Tom Cruise and Eric Clapton are to be asked to contribute to a time capsule to mark the 400th anniversary of a theatre at VIP holiday hotspot, Hvar, in Croatia.
Local mayor Pjerino Bebic says the stars and others like F1 motor racing tycoon Bernie Ecclestone and even Prince Harry - who have all holidayed on the island...
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22/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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Is that a Pic-ass-o over there?
Hundreds of nudist art lovers got a private peek at an exhibition of male nudes when a gallery in Austria held a special session for naturists only.
The show - 'Naked Men' at Vienna's Leopold Museum - had already created outrage when it was launched with huge full-frontal pictures of footballers on giant...
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21/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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A teenage crook had to dial 999 for police to rescue him when this hiding place turned out to be just a bit rubbish.
Thief Ales Nowotny, 19, had jumped in a recycling bin as he fled after he was caught red handed during a burglary in Prague, Czech Republic.
But once he was in, the hapless crook discovered he couldn't get out.
"He tried to...
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20/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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A holy man who claims to be a living saint and tells followers to live in poverty while he drapes himself in gold is being investigated by tax officials in India.
The self-styled Golden Baba - formerly humble tailor Bittu Bhagat - tells his disciples that must shun even clothes if their want to follow him.
But Bhagat has acquired a...
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19/02/2013 @ 14:02 (4 months ago)
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Now this is the kind of cold phwoar the West could get used to from Russia.
Local snowboarding beauties in the country's frozen east stripped down to skimpy shorts and bikini tops to show that the Alps have got nothing on these twin peaks in Siberia.
The promotional film - shot by the region's tourist board - is designed to encourage skiers...
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Ham-fisted police made a right pig's ear of recapturing a runaway porker blocking the road - when they tried to lure it into a trap with smokey bacon crisps.
The real life road hog had escaped from its sty in Sokolka, Poland, where it was destined to face the slaughter house.
But he kept police and wildlife experts on the trot for hours...
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19/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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A gruesome museum dedicated to the violence people do to each other has become a grim hit in Belgrade, Serbia.
The chilling exhibits include X-rays and scans of injuries or graphic surgical descriptions of medical trauma caused by severe, violent attacks.
One display shows the horrific injuries caused to a woman when her husband crushed her...
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17/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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The hunt for missing youngster Madeleine McCann has switched to the former Soviet Union after a confession from a serial paedophile that she could be in Russia or the Ukraine.
A local charity which specialises in finding trafficked children says it has been contacted by representatives of Madeleine's family to launch an appeal for...
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A woman who left a ransom-style note as a Valentine's prank has been warned she could be fined for wasting police time after she sparked a full scale alert.
Terrified Annika Bauer, 23, went to police when a key and a note made up of cut out words from newspapers arrived at her home in Hamburg, Germany.
The chilling letter said: "Find the...
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15/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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The body of the mother of a college professor who plotted to blow up the Polish parliament has been discovered murdered and buried in a shallow grave.
Police unearthed the partially buried body in national park woodland in Ojcow last April but didn't initially connect it with Brunon Kwiecien who was arrested in Krakow three months ago in...
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A drunk cabbie has told how he played a terrifying game of chicken with a train after getting stuck on railway tracks in Ostrowiec, Poland.
Tomasz Szczegola, 64, had been on an all night vodka binge when a regular customer called him at 6am asking for a cab.
"I should have turned her down but I needed the money so I thought I'd be clever and...
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15/02/2013 @ 11:02 (4 months ago)
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When police in Russia's remote Amur region say they've made a mammoth haul, they're not just boasting.
Police in the country's far east have seized more than half a ton of prehistoric mammoth tusks due to be smuggled over the border for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
The 71 tusks - weighing in at 1,320 pounds and said to be worth...
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13/02/2013 @ 14:02 (4 months ago)
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Suspicious shoppers have turned to divine intervention to work out which supermarket meals have secretly got horse meat in them.
A bizarre new video of a shopper shows her using a pendulum to work out which sausages to buy at the cooked meat counter of a budget supermarket in Poland.
The traditional tool is normally used by faith healers and...
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13/02/2013 @ 14:02 (4 months ago)
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This tiny tusker definitely looks a bit wobbly on her legs as she joins mum to take her first steps at Prague Zoo, in the Czech Republic.
The calf - born yesterday (Monday) to her 26-year-old mum Donna - is so new that keepers haven't had a chance to give it a name or even find out if it's a boy or a girl yet.
While her mum kept a close eye...
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13/02/2013 @ 14:02 (4 months ago)
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A terrified British teenager was winched to safety after he was saved from an Alpine ravine - because of his amazingly loud shout.
The youngster had slipped over the edge during a family ski-in holiday in Lech, Austria, and found himself perched on a ledge with no way up or down.
The 13-year-old schoolboy had become separated from his family...
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12/02/2013 @ 15:02 (4 months ago)
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A top heart surgeon who gave up medicine to become a trucker has been forced off the road after his business flatlined.
Swiss surgeon Markus Studer, 66, hung up his scalpel on his 50th birthday after a lifetime as a medic.
"I'd reached the highest point of my career as a surgeon and I wanted to stop there. I decided to start in my new dream...
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This lucky kitten missed death by a whisker when it was chucked 120ft down a rubbish chute at an apartment block in Berlin, Germany.
The helpless moggie was found by the block's janitor when he went to empty the bins.
"I heard this very soft mewing and I thought I was hearing things.
"Then I saw these little eyes peering out of the...
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08/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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Police think they've lifted the lid on a gang of scrap metal thieves - after arresting a woman with an astonishing 25 manhole covers in the boot of her car.
Traffic officers in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, stopped Lenka Liskova, 36, when they saw her staggering with one of the covers in her arms.
"She told us she'd dropped an earring...
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08/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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A trafficker found with an entire tiger skeleton hidden in his car is facing three years in jail in Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Customs police had stopped the car for a routine check as it crossed from Russia's Siberian border.
But after finding a handful of mystery bones in the boot, investigators took the vehicle apart.
"What we found...
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An air hostess who posted a picture of herself giving her passengers the finger has been sacked by Aeroflot airline bosses in Russia after it ended up on Twitter.
Flight attendant Tatiana Kozlenko put the snap up on her personal page on Vkontakte, one of Russia's most popular Facebook-style social networks.
Within hours the snap had clocked...
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Dinosaur experts believe thousands of rare fossilised dino eggs have been sold off by smugglers in central India for as little as 5 GBP each, a new study has revealed.
The fossil-rich Dhar-Mandla belt in Madhya Pradesh state is said to be home to some of the greatest collections of Cretaceous remains from dinosaurs like T. Rex and...
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Now that’s what you call a landscape.
More than 25,000 children are set to win a new world record when they create the world’s largest painting – all 15 kilometres of it.
The youngsters – from Vadorada, India – will cover 30 square acres with more than 13,000 litres of paint for the painting, dedicated to holy man Swami...
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A rogue tattooist who inked 56 stars on a sleeping girl's face has caused a write fuss again - after signing his name across his girlfriend's face less than 24 hours after he met her.
Controversial Ruslan Toumaniantz became notorious when he tattooed a galaxy of stars over the face of Kimberley Vlaeminck, then just 18, when she nodded off in...
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05/02/2013 @ 13:02 (4 months ago)
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A therapy centre in Poland thinks it's come up with the purr-fect treatment - by letting a cat curl up on your lap.
Psychologist Danuta Kowalewska, 28, has introduced what she calls 'Feline Therapy' at her clinic in Konin, Poland, where patients simply stroke specially trained moggies.
"Put a purring cat on your lap and you are instantly...
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A book chronicling the private lives of men who were anything but ordinary has gone on sale at the site of the Auschwitz extermination camp to give a chilling insight into the off-duty hours of people whose day jobs was industrial mass murder.
'The Private Life of the SS in Auschwitz' by museum historian Piotr Setkiewicz is a watershed in...
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02/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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A traffic cop who tried to sue his ex for the 3,000 GBP he spent on her breast enlargement op has been awarded just 200 GBP compensation.
Lukasz Molowik's case fell flat when judges denied his claim that he had any long term rights to the enhanced boobs following his break up with model Patricja Pajak.
"I didn’t want the surgery but Lukasz...
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02/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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A pair of lovestruck students who stole a life-sized model cow to impress a girl have been arrested by police in Blansko, Czech Republic.
Pavel Hric, 19, and Joachim Cizek, 20, had the brainwave after overhearing the girl Jana Brezikova tell friends she loved cows.
So the would be rustlers pinched the six foot high model - used to advertise...
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02/02/2013 @ 12:02 (4 months ago)
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The snow may have melted away in Britain, but other parts of Europe are still clearly frozen stiff.
This head-turning ice sculpture in Lodz, Poland, featuring a two metre high manhood has been blamed for an increase in traffic accidents since it sprung up overnight.
"We saw people building snowmen and we thought that was boring so we thought...
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Quad a bunch of cuties.
These adorable rare white tiger cubs are already earning their stripes for world conservation after being born at a zoo in Lilienfeld, Austria.
The youngsters - born just five weeks ago at Kernhof Zoo - already make up more than one per cent of the global population of white tigers, a rare mutation of Bengal...
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01/02/2013 @ 14:02 (5 months ago)
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Councillors in Adolf Hitler's home town of Braunau am Inn in Austria who made international headlines when they said they didn't need another monument to the evils of war have partially backed down and agreed to turn the dictators former home into an office of integration and tolerance.
After heated debate the council said it had backed the...
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A family friend who had a row with a Polish couple has been arrested after he snatched their baby and then dumped the apparently unharmed child in one of the baby post boxes designed for unwanted children.
According to Polish police the post box had been set up in order for desperate women perhaps struggling with a secret pregnancy to leave the...
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Wood you believe it? Drunk driver Jovan Miroslav walked away without a scratch after a high-speed crash into a tree with such force that the engine was torn out of his Porsche 911 Turbo and carried on down the road on its own - leaving the wrecked vehicle behind.
The accident happened at Regensdorf in Switzerland when the 22-year-old had been...
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N-ice work if you can get it where every year German artist Karl Neuhaus is asked to spend a month creating a spectacular fantasy world made out of ice even though none of his creations ever last into spring.
The ice fantasy world at Schwarzsee in the Fribourg Region of Switzerland has been fascinating visitors for 27 years and every year it...
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Pranksters who stole a giant gold plated biscuit from outside a German biscuit factory have sent a bizarre ransom note from the Sesame Street cookie monster.
The note - made of words cut from newspapers - is accompanied by a picture of the TV favourite threatening to gobble up the 30 inch high biscuit stolen from outside the Leibniz factory,...
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31/01/2013 @ 14:01 (5 months ago)
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Indian airline officials have drawn flak over new pilots' outfits based on World War II bomber crew's uniforms.
The country's IndiGo Airlines launched the new kit this week claiming the pilots' jackets would "make them look sharp."
Their short jackets are based on the battledress jackets issued to RAF pilots throughout the war.
But the...
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31/01/2013 @ 14:01 (5 months ago)
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This bizarre photofit issued by police in Germany has certainly got crime spotters keeping their eyes open.
The goggle-eyed gunman is wanted by police in Munster for holding up a mattress shop in the city and terrifying staff with a pistol.
Officers say he's in his 40s, has green eyes and curly hair - and made off with a pillow and...
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Long-suffering commuters in Poland have threatened a fares strike after their bus turned up covered in frost - on the inside.
Angry passengers - who'd been queuing in Chelmno, in temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius - said the bus was colder in the inside than it had been outside.
"Everywhere was ice, frost and snow. There was no heater...
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He's certainly got a head start when it comes to getting his message across.
Because this Indian holy man's astonishing headgear - nicknamed The Turbanator - is four feet tall and weighs an amazing 170lbs.
Baba Mastana - from the Punjab in northern India - tours the regions preaching peace.
"My turban is my message to the world. Shun...
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War crimes suspect Slobodan Milosevic's widow has put the couple's luxurious villa on the market for 3.6 million GBP in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
The 326 square metre, stucco-fronted palace is where Milosovic and his widow Mira lived while the president of Yugoslavia, before the bloody Balkans conflicts.
Milosevic, 64, died of heart...
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Royal Marines hero Mark Grey has been awarded one of Croatia's highest military honours for saving a town of 20,000 people from being swept away in a flood when he dodged mines and sniper bullets to save a dam from bursting its banks.
Retreating Serb troops had deliberately rigged the dam in Peruca to blow as they fled, engulfing the Croatian...
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They may look like something out of the set of a sci-fi movie but these alien looking creatures are extremely rare fossils of animal life that lived on the earth an incredible 300 million years ago.
The rare fossil that inspired the Swiss creator of the alien films captured the imagination so much in Switzerland when they went on display that...
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Smoker Mathias Metzger found out first hand how cigarettes are bad your health - after a packet jammed under his brake pedal sending him careering off the road.
Metzger, 27 - recovering from multiple injuries in hospital - dropped the pack by his feet as he was driving in Neubiberg, Germany.
But as he felt for them on the floor with one...
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Snowboarding fans are nipping onto Facebook for a sneak peak at the latest bizarre trend - mountain-top snaps in the nude.
Followers have to submit a picture of themselves and their friends stripped off on a mountain peak.
The fans - all freeboarding off-piste snowboarders - began the movement in Switzerland but say it's spreading all over...
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A ham-fisted trucker lost his load of 21 tons of pork knuckle when he overturned at a roundabout in Haag, Germany.
Police say driver Manfred Sommer lost control when he went into the bend too quickly, shifting the load of ham hocks hanging in the freezer container.
Firefighters and police spent more than an hour unloading the hams into a...
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Horrified Swiss honeymooner Jean Guillaume has told a Swiss newspaper how he feared he might be arrested for being a terrorist after he climbed on an Air France plane to Paris - and discovered once they had taken off that he had forgotten to take a pack of live bullets out of his rucksack.
Jean Guillaume, 28, a keen member of his local gun...
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28/01/2013 @ 11:01 (5 months ago)
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It's the 30 million GBP real life road to nowhere.
Government bunglers in Croatia got no further than building a 5,000 ft tunnel half way up a mountain in Omis with no way to drive into it before running out of cash.
Engineers began work on the tunnel nearly six years ago but this week admitted they had, quite literally, come to the end of...
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28/01/2013 @ 10:01 (5 months ago)
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Flaming heck. Nothing could torch these youngsters from western India when it came to thinking big for a new world record.
The 1,600 pupils - all dressed as monks - arranged themselves into the shape of a giant torch in Vadodara in a tribute to legendary Hindu holy man Swami Vivekananda.
The torch - 186ft long and 54ft wide - has earned the...
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Red faced transport officials have been forced to recommission a fleet of veteran 1950s trams from museums after their modern day replacements were put out of action by freezing weather in Frankfurt, Germany.
Dozens of the brand new trams were left stranded when frozen overhead electrical cables meant that couldn't draw enough power to...
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24/01/2013 @ 13:01 (5 months ago)
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Crook Bhanu Patel has clocked up a world criminal record - after picking up 31 educational qualifications behind bars while he served eight years for fraud in western India.
Patel, 57, was awarded a BA, two Masters degrees and dozens of other diplomas and qualifications while he studied at the prison in Ahmedabad.
"Studying hard is the best...
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Baffled farmers have been ordered to supply dog toys to their pigs by EU officials to make them happier before they're slaughtered.
New EU rules which came in this month gave livestock farmers in Poland a list of toys they must provide for their porkers or face losing thousands of pounds in subsidies.
But the rules have upset many experts,...
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23/01/2013 @ 15:01 (5 months ago)
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Freezy tiger!...It's only a game.
These two Siberian tigers showed their roar talent when they got to grips with football after a massive snowfall on their enclosure in Vienna's Schonbrunn Zoo in Austria.
The female tigers - Kyra aged two and four-year-old Ina - were fine when it came to tactic, like paw-paw-two.
"We gave them the...
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A Swiss aids help group has defended its use of a picture of two men having sex to promote sex without a condom in the gay community.
The Aids-Hilfe poster for the F*** Positive campaign aims to promote the idea that even HIV positive men can have unprotected sex as long as they take their medication which keeps the HIV virus in the blood at an...
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German police say that the 100 foot long tunnel used by bank robbers to break into a bank in Berlin was going to be dismantled and put up in a police Museum.
Photos of the tunnel that took months to make were used all around the world and there has been enormous interest in the case which has resulted in the announcement this week that once the...
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A drugs smuggler was under locks and key last night - after customs officials found half a kilo of cocaine stashed in her heavily plaited hair.
The trafficker Jacomina Aswegen - arriving in Munich, Germany, on a flight from South Africa - was stopped after her enormous hair-do raised eyebrows as she walked through the airport.
Her plaits -...
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Vandals who broke into a building site and drove a mechanical digger so that the arm and shovel were pointing out into the middle of the road are facing jail if they are caught by police at Aargau in Switzerland.
Builders had been working on the road in the area and left the building site with the digger locked up and the work clearly marked...
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A baffled farmer has told how a sheep was swallowed whole when the ground in his field opened up in Primorski Dolac, Croatia, and dragged down the helpless beast.
"It disappeared in a second while I was watching. It was there, then it disappeared," shepherd Ivo Solovic told local media.
The hole was so deep investigators couldn't find the...
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Oh deer. This rescue team had to pull a whole herd of real-life Bambis to safety when they plunged into a frozen lake after the ice collapsed underneath them.
The stricken herd - crossing a lake in Gryfice, in north west Poland - were spotted by anglers who dialled 999 when they saw the ice suddenly shatter underneath them.
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22/01/2013 @ 11:01 (5 months ago)
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A woman suing her vet over the death of her pet cat is to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
Heartbroken Stefanie Vaille - from Waadtland, Switzerland - claims the vet killed the beloved pedigree puss Tequila during a bungled treatment for cancer.
So far, she has spent more than 30,000 GBP over nine years in the extraordinary...
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Typical. You wait all year for a planning application, and then two arrive together for the same plot of land.
When a couple bought the land next to their guest house in Kolbudy, Poland, they didn't suspect the seller had also flogged it to the local bus company.
"The first we knew was when we woke up one morning and there was a bus stop...
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The owners of a pub named after incest pervert Josef Fritzl have been told they could be prosecuted.
The owners, who haven’t been named, sparked outrage when they put out a Facebook message announcing the opening of their new Pub - the Fritzl Cellar pub - in Warsaw, Poland.
Now they have been told to close the place down or face...
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21/01/2013 @ 10:01 (5 months ago)
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An elderly German hunter who refused to pay a fine for shooting dead the first wolf to be seen in the Rhineland area of Germany for 123 years has ended up with a bigger fine - and court costs.
Lawyer's for Manfred Weiss, 72, claim the animal was not a real wolf despite the fact that DNA testing had confirmed it was. Weiss said it was clearly a...
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Harrowing images from the new movie of cellar kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch's eight years in captivity have emerged showing star Antonia Campbell-Hughes looking gaunt and painfully thin.
The film - called '3096' after the number of days Natascha spent as a prisoner - is based on Kampusch's own book on her ordeal.
Ten-year-old Londoner Amy...
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18/01/2013 @ 07:01 (5 months ago)
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Red-faced police have apologised to a driver for nicking him for speeding after he proved their mobile radar trap had been sent haywire by an overweight WPC.
Lawyer Jens Tasche, 37, showed that readings from the speed gun set up in the back of an unmarked parked car were unreliable because the roly-poly policewoman was sitting on the...
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Animal cruelty officials are investigating a small ad offering a rug made from the skin of a Siberian husky in Kosice, Slovakia.
The ad says the 50 GBP skin comes without the dog's teeth or skull before adding: "Does not shed any hair. Nice work. Popular with cats. "
A picture on the ad shows the rug flat on the snow covered ground with the...
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17/01/2013 @ 16:01 (5 months ago)
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A judge who's declared war on the copper cable thieves who've brought Europe to a standstill has accused justice officials in Romania of shielding the crooks who've built multi-million pound palace fortresses on the back of their crimes.
Magistrate Philippe Dujardin - who's leading a huge investigation into the wholesale theft of copper from...
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Police dogs are to be issued with shoes to protect their paws from broken glass at riots and crime scenes after successful trials in Germany.
The protective boots - attached with velcro - are lined with a thin coating of stab proof material to make sure the dogs are not injured in violent situations like clashes with football hooligans.
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A terrified home-owner has told how she thought she was going to die when a tanked up drunk drove a 14-ton armoured vehicle into her house.
Horrified Rita Yashina was woken in the early hours of the morning when the monster military surplus tank ploughed through her garden in Beryozovo, central Russia.
"There was a huge crash and then the...
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It's the kind of hotel where even the fussiest guest can relax in paw-star comfort.
And the owners of India's first hotel for dogs say even the pickiest pooch can live in the lap of luxury without any fear of having to wuff it.
But the resort has been criticised by human rights groups who say in a country where some people do not even have...
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16/01/2013 @ 16:01 (5 months ago)
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A new basement bar named after cellar monster Josef Fritzl is facing a furious protest from punters.
The pub - called Fritzl's Cellar in Warsaw, Poland - uses the incest pervert's face as its logo and features his daughter Elisabeth on its web site and launch Facebook page.
Sick Fritzl, 77 - now serving life behind bars - kept Elisabeth as a...
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16/01/2013 @ 15:01 (5 months ago)
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The family of a patient who died after surgeons left 16 different items inside his body during an op are seeking 100,000 GBP compensation from hospital authorities.
Victim Dirk Schroeder, 74, suffered "appalling agony" after the routine op for prostate cancer and had been told he could expect to live another six years at least.
But within...
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A teenage burglary gang who fled with a quarter ton safe in the boot of their Nissan Micra were caught when traffic police stopped them because they thought their suspension was broken.
The gang - from Frechen, Germany - tried to flee a traffic checkpoint when officers beckoned them over because the tiny car was riding so low.
As three teens...
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A scrap metal thief faced a bite of wuff justice when he tried to strangle a police dog during a raid to steal copper cable.
Thieving Heiner Koenig, 32, suffered severe bites to his leg when he tried to take on German Shepherd Milow after being cornered in an underground car park in Cologne, Germany.
Police spokesman Martin Bauer said: "When...
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15/01/2013 @ 14:01 (5 months ago)
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House about this for a bizarre attempt to keep light-fingered monkeys from raiding homes for food in India?
The model homes - made entirely of biscuits - are supposed to keep the thieving primates sweet in the wild so they won't invade cities like the capital New Delhi on the hunt for human grub.
Artist Chintan Upadhyay reckons that monkeys...
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A wanted murderer dubbed 'The Turtle' shot his 17-year-old girlfriend in the head and then killed himself after holding off armed police for more than 12 hours.
Gang gunman Andrzej Symanski, 33, barricaded himself and girlfriend Kamilia Wysocka into his apartment in Sanok, Poland, after killing a pal over a 10,000 GBP debt.
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A train passenger with a three feet long elephant tusk hidden in his luggage has been arrested for ivory trafficking, say police in Basel, Switzerland.
The tusk - worth 15,000 GBP on the black market - was discovered during a search of the suspect's bag on a train from Frankfurt in Germany to Zurich.
The French national caught with the 4.5...
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12/01/2013 @ 15:01 (5 months ago)
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A cow fleeing a randy bull had to be rescued by firefighters when she accidentally plunged into a giant slurry tank as she tried to escape his amorous attentions.
The haughty heifer fell through an open access shaft to the underground tank as she fled through the field with the bull in hot pursuit at their farm in Durrenroth,...
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11/01/2013 @ 14:01 (5 months ago)
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This curvy beauty has come up with a chest fantastic way to make money - by putting adverts on her boobs.
For just 5 GBP, punters can advertise their products or events on one of her breasts, with a special cut price rate of just nine GBP for a double header.
The mystery girl - not named in the ad posted on a Gumtree-style website in the...
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Police chiefs in Hamburg, Germany, are celebrating after new crime figures showed there wasn't a single bank robbery in the city last year.
Experts say increased police awareness, high tech security methods a move towards online banking have all helped bring the figure down to zero from a high of 46 robberies in 1993.
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10/01/2013 @ 13:01 (5 months ago)
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Astonished environmentalists have revealed the emergence of a brand new island off the German coast.
The new land mass - dubbed Bird Island after its first settlers - is estimated to be the size of 20 football pitches 15 miles off the North Sea shore.
"This is for us conservationists anything but ordinary. This hasn't happened here in over...
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10/01/2013 @ 12:01 (5 months ago)
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Zoo staff say that a tightrope walking gorilla's attempts to impress the ladies have paid off after he was accepted as a mate by both the female gorillas in his enclosure.
Gorilla's are known for doing not much more than eating and sitting around but adult males are expected to try and impress the ladies when it comes to mating. In the wild...
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09/01/2013 @ 11:01 (5 months ago)
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They might not be everyone's idea of a hotrod, but these snaps of men in cheesy nylon pants posing by classing 1970s motors have sparked a calender rev-olution in Germany.
The bizarre pictures - featuring male models of all shapes and sizes - show some classic bodywork has aged better than others.
One bearded model poses in a pair of baggy...
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08/01/2013 @ 15:01 (5 months ago)
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Sickening images of a tortured dog which died in agony while it was towed by a car at high speed have infuriated animal lovers in Russia.
The helpless beast had been tied to the rear bumper by its front paws, making it impossible for the animal to even try to keep up with the car.
Images of the dog's body - lying frozen in the snow in remote...
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A randy elephant has been told to pack his trunk after demolishing his enclosure because he doesn’t get enough sex.
The 14-year-old Indian tusker - called Thisiana - is being evicted from Chorzow Zoo in Poland, where there are no females to keep him happy.
Officials are sending him on a free transfer to a zoo in Germany where he will have...
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Two sisters in Bosnia and Herzegovina separated after fleeing from the Nazis have met each other after 72 years - after both thought the other had either died or emigrated.
In reality the pair, 88-year-old Tanija Delic and 82-year-old Hedija Talic, still lived in the same country 100 miles from one other - and got back in touch thanks to a...
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07/01/2013 @ 13:01 (5 months ago)
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Wealthy Datta Phuge has splashed out 14,000 GBP on a solid gold shirt to make sure he's a 24 karat hit with women in central India.
Money-lender Datta, 32, from Pimpri-Chinchwad, says the shirt took a team of 15 goldsmiths two weeks to make working 16 hours a day creating and weaving the gold threads.
It comes complete with its own matching...
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05/01/2013 @ 11:01 (5 months ago)
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A bizarre calender for nerds who find old computers a turn on has been created by technology fans in Germany.
The Nerd Calender features ancient technology being fondled by models dressed as gorgeous geeks.
One blonde is seen lovingly caressing the joystick of a classic Atari games computer.
Other models - dressed in dominatrix gear or as...
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04/01/2013 @ 12:01 (5 months ago)
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Motorist Martha Hasler thanked her trucky stars when this 40 ton lorry rolled on top of her on a main road in Germany.
Martha, 70, and her 67-year-old passenger watched in horror as the out of control giant truck landed on them after a spectacular crash in Ostfriesland.
The 45-year-old trucker told police he'd lost control of the lorry on a...
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30/12/2012 @ 08:12 (6 months ago)
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A hapless bank break-in gang were caught when their nervous getaway driver fled leaving them stranded.
Police had no idea that crooks had broken into the bank in Berlin, Germany, until they saw how anxious the driver was.
"Officers were just on patrol around the city. They saw the car parked near the bank but didn't think anything of it...
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Firemen had to resort to using snow after a blaze broke out at a mountain restaurant 1,500 metres up the side of a Swiss mountain.
The Adlerhorst restaurant owner and his wife had managed to rescue themselves when they spotted the blaze at 3 in the morning and raised the alarm - but firemen realised it was impossible to reach the wooden...
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29/12/2012 @ 12:12 (6 months ago)
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Driver Petr Besta, 37, kept his cool when a giant slab of ice that had formed on the top of a lorry flew off and smashed through his windscreen as he travelled home to Ostrava in the Czech Republic.
Besta was in his Skoda Fabia when the ice flew off the passing truck and smashed into his car causing 3,000 GBP worth of damage and missing his...
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28/12/2012 @ 14:12 (6 months ago)
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Residents at a hamlet called the End of the World have been forced to take down their signposts because they keep getting pinched by apocalypse believers.
The three families who now live in remote Koniec Swiata in Poland, say their lives have been made a misery by people who believed the ancient Mayan calender prediction that the world would...
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22/12/2012 @ 14:12 (6 months ago)
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A heartless step-dad who set his wife's daughter on fire so he could get his hands on 20,000 GBP she'd been given in an insurance pay out is facing life behind bars in Poland.
Cruel Tadeusz Pietrowski, 67, poured petrol over his step-daughter Katarzyna Polek, 36, and turned her into a human fireball at her home in Sandomierz, say...
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21/12/2012 @ 12:12 (6 months ago)
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A former bank clerk accused of carrying out seven armed bank robberies has told police in Poland he needed the cash to pay back a bank loan.
Jobless Marcin Figurski, 28, is said to have netted nearly 19,000 GBP in a series of raids around Krakow using his inside knowledge of banks to hit them when they would be most vulnerable.
He was caught...
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20/12/2012 @ 11:12 (6 months ago)
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Guests at a mystical mountain hotel trying to dodge next week's predicted apocalypse really could feel the earth move - thanks to a powerful aphrodisiac brewed from the leaves of local bushes.
Staff at the Balasevic Hotel - perched on Serbia's Mount Rtanj - have been swamped by guests pleading for rooms who think the peak's aura will protect...
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14/12/2012 @ 15:12 (6 months ago)
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A beautiful blonde librarian accused of snogging underage schoolboys as they sat on her knee is facing 12 years in jail on paedophile charges in Krakow, Poland.
Katarzyna Plonka, 31, was fired from her job after one 15-year-old pupil's parents found a text message on his phone bragging about "snogging the hot librarian."
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Austria's Mozart region of Salzburg is facing bankruptcy after an alleged rogue trader gambled away an incredible three billion Euro on risky ventures on the international financial markets.
Alleged rogue trader Monika Rathmayer, 45, was hired in 2001 to speculate with taxpayers money and made massive losses in 2006 after she bought Icelandic...
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14/12/2012 @ 15:12 (6 months ago)
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Hapless husband Tomas Paczkowski is regretting promising to show his better half he was hot stuff at housework - after accidentally ironing his face when the phone rang.
Tomas - from Elbag, Poland - was determined to show wife Lila that he was just as good around the home as she is.
"I decided to do the ironing while she was out at work,...
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13/12/2012 @ 12:12 (6 months ago)
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Commuters desperate to spend a penny on this passenger train in snow-swept Poland have just got to learn how to chill out.
Because although regulars on the Szczezin to Warsaw route may be used to a flaky service, this is just taking the pee.
Astonished passengers trying to use the lavatory found they had to chip their way through three...
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12/12/2012 @ 12:12 (6 months ago)
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This poor cow was udderly frozen when she fell into this iced over swimming pool in Windeck, Germany, and couldn't get out.
The chilly moo had escaped while the rest of her herd were being rounded up for the slaughterhouse when she slipped and plunged in.
Startled home-owners called the police and fire brigade after realising the cow was...
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11/12/2012 @ 13:12 (6 months ago)
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A hero student pulled eight OAP passengers to safety after their mini-bus crashed onto a frozen lake in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and began to sink.
Rescuer Pavel Rogozhin, 21, had been on his way home from college when he saw the bus career off the road onto the ice in temperatures of minus 15 degrees C.
"The bus had rolled over five or six...
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08/12/2012 @ 17:12 (6 months ago)
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A bogus faith healer who conned hundreds of women into bed saying sex with him would cure them has been jailed for 14 years.
Hairdresser Jan Jano advertised his healing therapy service on a website in Prague, Czech Republic, and asked potential patients to send in their photographs with details of their medical problems.
Prosecutors told...
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08/12/2012 @ 17:12 (6 months ago)
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Furious education chiefs have torn advertisers off a strip after they put up a billboard advertising a prostitution service opposite a school.
The huge poster - which features a model writhing out of a skimpy thong plugging an online sex service - is seen by hundreds of gawping schoolchildren as they walk to the school in Bruttisellen,...
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By Central European News Ltd
Sofa, so good.
But it was only a matter of time before this overloaded motor was going to be pulled over by police in Dillenburg, Germany.
Driver Bernhard Mayer was stopped as his struggling VW Polo was trying to negotiate 70mph traffic on the motorway complete with a three piece suite strapped to the sides and roof.
"It was clearly...
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06/12/2012 @ 13:12 (6 months ago)
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Shocked keepers of seven young tigers found dead in their cages have accused jealous rivals of poisoning the endangered big cat.
The bodies of the beasts - being trained for performances to Russian audiences - were discovered by staff at the Moscow based Nikulin Circus during a nationwide tour.
Trainer Karina Bagdasarova said: "We seriously...
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A hapless hold-up crook was arrested just minutes after he fled a bank with a sackful of cash - straight back to his apartment next door.
Jobless Gerhard Andexer, 35, confessed to police in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, that he'd been desperate for money to pay bills and give his wife and three children a happy Christmas.
Police raided his...
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06/12/2012 @ 12:12 (6 months ago)
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Christmas with a difference is being offered to visitors to the Hallein Salt Mine in the province of Salzburg.
Instead of arriving on a sleigh Santa arrives on one of the giant wooden slides that leads into the massive Salzbergwerk Dürrnberg tunnel network, part of the underground salt mine located in the Dürrnberg plateau above Hallein,...
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Twinkie the two-year-old pony got into a hole lot of trouble when she had it away on her toes - and disappeared down a four foot deep ditch.
The frisky mare had jumped out of her paddock in Kobylka, Poland, for a gallop in a neighbouring field and sunk down to her neck in a drainage ditch.
"It was full of mud and water and it was lucky I...
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05/12/2012 @ 14:12 (6 months ago)
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Anyone taking a hike in Switzerland in the current snow at the Valais mountain village of Champex-Lac will not need to worry about getting caught out in the cold after the local St Bernard foundation arranged to provide a rescue dog to accompany each group.
The Barry foundation (http://www.fondation-barry.ch) has about 30 "Great St. Bernard"...
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04/12/2012 @ 13:12 (6 months ago)
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A traffic cop who spent 5,000 GBP on a boob job for his former girlfriend is suing her for compensation after she dumped him.
Model Patricja Pajak, 24, says she broke off with police officer Lukasz Molovik's because he was obsessed with the size of her breasts.
"I didn’t want the surgery but Lukasz kept going on about it and saying how big...
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It may be panto season but turning her prized Porsche into a pumpkin patch wasn't quite the happy ending driver Martha Sommer was looking for.
The 60-year-old driver lost control of the purple 911 sports car in Werl, Germany, and drove straight through a market stall full of pumpkins before skidding to a halt on a grass verge.
"She said...
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By Central European News Ltd
The arrival of snow in Europe has been welcomed by ski lift operators who have now started preparing pistes.
But despite the fact that across Austria and Switzerland up to 15 cm of snow has fallen it may still not be enough to ensure many resorts open on time as the ski runs still need to be prepared.
Many resorts have decided to delay their...
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01/12/2012 @ 16:12 (7 months ago)
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Youngsters in Rostov, Russia, had the mane attraction for their show and tell - when they found a lost lion cub on their way to school.
The male cub was spotted wandering the streets of Seyatel village in southern Russia and taken to school by local children.
Police looked after the cub until owner Irina Kulikovskaya came forward saying it...
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The last time this prehistoric monster known as the Paraphysornis or "terror bird" walked the earth was 25 million ago.
But now after more than 800 hours of painstaking reconstruction using an almost complete fossil of an extinct Paraphysornis, scientists have managed to recreate how it looked by producing a full-feathered life-size...
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Russian police are investigating after housewife Marina Bugaev's found a diamond ring inside a pack of sausage meat.
The 50-year-old mother of three from Izhevsk, Russia, told local media: "I was cutting the sausages up when the knife hit something hard.
"When I saw it was a diamond ring I nearly fainted, my first though was where is the...
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This driver was wheely lucky to escape after she ended up on train tracks in her car after following directions on her sat nav in Bonn, Germany.
Maria Koller, 53, was crossing train tracks at a level crossing when her sat nav told her to take the next right - instead of waiting to the next turn she quickly turned right straight onto the train...
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A Polish man who called emergency services when he saw this fox stuck in railings was told it would have to wait three days before being rescued as it was a weekend.
Marcin Kowalski, 36, was out walking his dog in Gizycka, Poland, when he stumbled upon the fox, which had wedged itself in between the metal bars.
He said: "I guess it got stuck...
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A campaign to fight racism in football with bizarre bus tickets has backfired in Poland after furious fans forced them to be pulped.
The tickets issued in Lublin show a series of ethnic minorities like Gypsies, Jews and Afro-Caribbeans being embraced by fans with captions saying:"For us there's only football."
Other captions read: "You gypsy...
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29/11/2012 @ 13:11 (7 months ago)
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Bus bosses in Sweden have had a bright idea to cheer up gloomy passengers suffering because of the country's long winter nights.
Experts have installed daylight bulbs in a series of shelters to help them passengers get sunshine therapy while they queue for a bus.
Many Swedes suffer from a form of depression called seasonal affective disorder...
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This trucker slipped up in when he crashed on a Swiss motorway - spilling his load of olive oil over six lanes of traffic.
Police in Pratteln say 22 tonnes of the stuff poured onto the road causing countless shunts before the road was blocked by highway safety officials.
"Conditions were extremely slippery," said a police spokesman
"The...
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It's the ultimate in ski-ing luxury for high fliers.
This VIP gondola lift cabin has been kitted out with top of the range leather upholstery from BMW's 7-Series limousines, complete with massage pads in the seats to pamper tired muscles after a day on the slops at the five star Hochzillertal resort in the Austrian Tirol.
And after sinking...
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Zoo keeper Michal Krause has discovered the perfect way to cut out monkey business when he tucks his orangutans up at night - by reading them a bedtime story.
The two playful primates used to drive keepers ape at Poland's Gdansk Zoo until Michel, 36, started to read to them.
"They were repeat offenders, always causing trouble," said Michal...
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28/11/2012 @ 13:11 (7 months ago)
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It's the real-life lynx effect - as a town's street's empty while a hungry big cat prowls the streets looking for food.
The feline intruder wandered into Zegiestowie, Poland, in broad daylight after emerging from its normal habitat among the peaks of a local mountain range.
National park ranger Andrzej Ksiazek, who snapped the animal, said:...
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27/11/2012 @ 12:11 (7 months ago)
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A sozzled farmer has been banned after he drove five miles with just three wheels on his tractor before passing out.
Drunk Marcin Pietrowski, 39, was arrested when police in Janow, Poland, found him fast asleep in a ditch beside a dirt road leading to his farm.
"We had lots of calls from other drivers saying he could barely steer the...
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Swiss foxhunters have refused to apologise after police were called when they hung the rotting body of a dead fox from a sign to show people taking part in a hunt at the weekend where to go.
The Berner Jägerverband hunting association which organised the fox hunt with dogs and horses said that local restaurants sometimes hung furs on signs to...
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26/11/2012 @ 13:11 (7 months ago)
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German social workers are under fire after it was discovered that two years ago they had put a nine-year-old boy into a travelling circus.
And it has now been revealed that other children have also been placed in other circuses as well as riding schools, farms and even in one case a travelling stunt show.
The boy, identified in German media...
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Suspended in midair this giant crane left a German family with more daylight than they had expected when it was hired to remove trees from in front of their windows at Lilienthal in Germany.
Instead of removing branches and trees to give the property more light, the giant crane toppled over, smashing a massive hole in the roof and leaving the...
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An animal loving Austrian couple have not gone on holiday for over 17 years after adopting an injured pigeon that came into their home at Xmas in the city of Salzburg - and never left.
And Bertl and Irmi Reiterer have also been unable to use their oven after it was taken over by the injured pigeon as its nest.
Bertl, who is a taxidermist by...
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24/11/2012 @ 10:11 (7 months ago)
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Police had to be rescued from their own patrol car after they crashed on their way to a call out in Oberhausen, Germany.
The squad car hit another motor as it sped through a set of traffic lights, sending the police vehicle spinning out of control until it flipped and came to a rest on its roof.
"Both officers received medical treatment but...
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23/11/2012 @ 15:11 (7 months ago)
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The terrifying arsenal of bombs built by a terror suspect believed to be planning an Anders Breivik-style slaughter have been put on show by police in Krakow, Poland.
The haul - seized from the home of a middle-aged university worker - included more than a quarter of a ton of explosives, including Hexogen T$, the highest grade of military...
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22/11/2012 @ 12:11 (7 months ago)
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The baby Seal which was left abandoned after her mother died has been allowed to swim with the rest of the colony despite being raised by keepers at Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna.
Baby Lunita's mother Enya died shortly after she was born and it was uncertain whether the baby Seal would survive after she had to be raised by humans.
But now head...
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22/11/2012 @ 09:11 (7 months ago)
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The world's biggest bloom nicknamed the 'Corpse flower' because of it foul smell has come into full bloom and filling the greenhouse at the University of Basel with a foul odour.
And despite its smell the plant weighing over 30 kilos is attracting a vast number of visitors since it first started to bloom at 15.00 yesterday. The botanical garden...
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22/11/2012 @ 09:11 (7 months ago)
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A hiker has been hailed a hero after he rescued a driver from his burning car armed only with his Swiss Army penknife.
Quick thinking Rudi Leonardy, 73, watched the car spin off the road in Hemmendorf, Germany. It hit a crash barrier, then a tree before flipping over several times and landing on its roof in a ditch and catching...
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19/11/2012 @ 14:11 (7 months ago)
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Its snow joke - this White Swiss Shepherd Dog is proving a life saver after she adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother at a local zoo in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The snow white hound named Tally is breastfeeding the tiny trio of tigers after the mother Bagheera refused to feed them herself.
Keepers said the dog was...
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Treasure hunter Martin Maier, 37, thought he had discovered a valuable architectural site when his metal detector uncovered antique tableware believed to be several hundred years old including candlesticks and fruit bowls hidden in a wood at Alland in Lower Austria.
But archaeologists quickly realised that all was not as it seemed when they...
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17/11/2012 @ 15:11 (7 months ago)
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It's simples to see who is the top zoo attraction as these cute Meerkats give you one big hint.
Visitors to Schonbrunn Zoo, Vienna, Austria, voted the cheeky critters the park's leading attraction in a recent poll - beating pandas and tigers into second and third place.
Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said: "I was surprised that they beat what...
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Nicknamed the 'Corpse flower' because of it foul smell this record breaking bloom is still packing in the visitors as it grows at the rate of a millimetre every eight minutes.
The plant is indigenous to Sumatra's rainforests in Indonesia and is extremely rare, although this one is located at the University of Basel in Switzerland. It is the...
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16/11/2012 @ 15:11 (7 months ago)
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A 107-year-old Austrian who is the oldest living victim of the concentration camps imprisoned because he was a Jehovah's Witness is to fly to New York for the premier of a film about his life.
Leopold Engleitner, 107, from St. Wolfgang in Upper Austria, will be in the US to attend the Los Angeles premier of the documentary called "Ladder in the...
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A priceless headdress once worn by the last Aztec king who hoped that by giving it to the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes it would lead to peace has been saved from falling apart after a two year restoration process by more than a dozen experts.
Cortes accepted the gift from Emperor Montezuma II in 1519 but it did not stop him laying waste...
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The multi-tasking German driver who created a mobile office in his car complete with laptop, printer, and two phones is nothing unusual in the land that invented the motorway - and where speed limits on most of those motorways are still non existent.
These police pictures of German lorry drivers stopped this year including one caught this week...
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A giant concrete flack tower built by the Third Reich and turned into a museum has been pulling in the crowds since it added a new attraction – monkeys.
The primates are given free range to run through all the floors of the huge building in the centre of Vienna that was built with steel reinforced concrete.
After the war engineers realised...
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15/11/2012 @ 14:11 (7 months ago)
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An unlucky trucker died instantly when his lorry loaded with 20 tons of oranges plunged off a bridge onto a busy motorway when he fell asleep at the wheel.
Long distance driver Peter Slavic, 48, was only a few miles from his destination when his truck plunged 30ft onto the motorway in Graz, Austria.
"We believe he fell asleep and his truck...
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Astonished traffic cops who stopped a dodgy-looking white van at a service station found a secret supply of horsepower inside - with 10 Shetland ponies crammed into the back.
The drivers - on their way to Romania when they were stopped at Offenbach, Germany - claimed they'd had no idea they had livestock on board.
"The van's windows were...
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15/11/2012 @ 13:11 (7 months ago)
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A chilling archive of photos taken in Nazi occupied Poland's doomed Lublin Ghetto have gone on show for the first time in more than 60 years.
The ghetto - once home to nearly 40,000 victims - was set up during World War II by invading German forces in 1941 to contain the local Jewish population.
It was bulldozed a year later with tens of...
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14/11/2012 @ 12:11 (7 months ago)
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A horrified cereal fan thought he was going batty when he poured out a bowl of cornflakes - and found a mummified bat his bowl.
Experts in Stuttgart, Germany, believe the bat had been flown into the packaging by mistake and had suffocated to death.
Scientists have been unable to establish whether the bat had flown into the box of...
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An astonished pilot walked away from this terrifying nose dive when his engine cut out during a test flight, say air accident investigators.
Pilot Krzystof Kwiatkowskihad been on his landing approach at Czestochowa Aero Club in Poland when he lost all power and fell out of the sky.
"He just dropped like a stone and hit the ground with a real...
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13/11/2012 @ 14:11 (7 months ago)
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Road safety chiefs in Romania have been rapped for using Adolf Hitler in a poster campaign for safer driving.
Hitler, toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Russia's brutal communist leader Joseph Stalin all feature in a series of ads showing them as car crash victims.
With their faces plastered against a car windscreen, the ad's tag line...
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Is that a Heckler and Koch or are you just pleased to see me?
Elite cops have been torn off a strip in Romania after these astonishing nude snaps of them on a training exercise were revealed.
SWAT team commissioner-in-chief Emanoil Moraru is seen stripped for action covering his modesty with just a toy gun and a curly wig while officers in...
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An overweight Austrian described as "The Monster From the Deep" by Modern talking singer Dieter Bohlen has lost a bid to get a total of 25,000 Euros in compensation for the insult.
Herbert Paris, 70, was filmed walking on a beach where the star was filming a casting show "Germany Seeks A Superstar - Recall" in the Maldives.
When he spotted...
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10/11/2012 @ 10:11 (7 months ago)
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Red-faced newspaper bosses in Croatia have apologised after running a headline saying loser Mitt Romney had won the US presidential election .
The country's Slobodna Dalmacija paper was so convinced that Romney would win they printed a front page saying "Mitt Romney Enters White House."
"We had to let the edition go for printing at 3am and...
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09/11/2012 @ 12:11 (7 months ago)
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These hapless burglars were put in the frame when a hi-tech homeowner installed a hidden camera in his front door.
The pair - snapped here picking the lock at the apartment in Vienna, Austria - thought the lens was simply a spy-hole, say police, who released the photos.
"They've been very useful because we've been able to see the technique...
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A German multimillionaire suffering from Alzheimer's who vanished two years ago sparking a massive police search has turned up in neighbouring Austria – with a new wife and adopted son who also now have been unveiled as the heirs to his vast fortune.
Georg Luxi's new family has told his 2 daughters Eveline, 61, and Gabrielle, 55, that he is...
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With the diameter of a small apartment block this giant stone was easily large enough to completely block the Alpine Julierstrasse Road between Rona and Mulegns in Switzerland.
Local mayor Adolf Poltera, 67, said: "We have had a few problems with stones on the road so we put up a protective wall – but against a block this size nothing helps....
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Despite weighing in at 50kg this baby is still a lightweight by rhino standards, and wasn't even strong enough to stand up and feed herself after being born at Schmiding Zoo in Upper Austria.
After watching the youngster struggling to stand to feed she had to be taken away from mum Niki and fed with a bottle for 2 days - before the pair were...
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Nature lovers in Vienna, Austria, have been baffled by new park signs banning ski-ing - without a single flake of snow on the ground.
City park officials say they're trying to save costs by making one total ban sign - forbidding everything from ski-ing, to cycling and letting dogs off the lead.
"It's cheaper to have one sign banning...
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07/11/2012 @ 13:11 (7 months ago)
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An Austrian hunter called to put down a seriously ill deer used his dog and a knife rather than have to go back to his car and get a bullet for his empty gun.
Animal rights activists who made the claim have filed a complaint against Schalchen-based hunter Hubert Steinberger. They say that the injured animal may have been too ill to save, and...
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A gentleman thief who carried out a series of armed robberies across the UK and was jailed for 14 years in 2006 has carried out another armed raid after being deported back to his native Austria.
Peter Zarre, now 59, was known as the polite robber after he held up 11 building societies nationwide at gunpoint - apologising to staff before...
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06/11/2012 @ 14:11 (7 months ago)
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A father and son were blown to pieces when they tried digging up an old WWII bomb they thought was scrap metal.
Czeslaw Kowalski, 56, and son Piotr, 28, from Kielce, Poland, were searching an old barn with a metal detector when it beeped to indicate buried treasure.
But the explosive treasure was actually a hidden stash weapons that had been...
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These silly moos had to be rescued by Swiss police when they plunged into a lake to become real-life milk floats.
The Scottish Highland cattle had broken out of their farm enclosure in Rorschach before plunging into Lake Constance to escape pursuers.
"I couldn't believe my eyes. There were two of them and they jumped right in," said witness...
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A gynaecologist who hid nearly 1,000 guns at his surgery also had a secret stash of kinky photos of his patients' private parts, police in Munich, Germany, have revealed.
The medic - named as Dr Christian Koller - kept hundreds of of the sick snaps in hidden cupboards and safes alongside machine guns, rifles, pistols and thousands of rounds of...
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03/11/2012 @ 15:11 (7 months ago)
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A Jewish synagogue once used by Germany's Nazi officers as a swimming pool is to be converted into a hotel under plans that have infuriated locals in Poznan, Poland.
The building was flooded and used as a pool for SS brass during World War II after the city's Jewish population had been exterminated.
It was only drained and handed back to...
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02/11/2012 @ 16:11 (7 months ago)
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Astonished police unearthed a secret arsenal nearly 1,000 lethal machine guns and pistols during a routine search of a doctor's surgery.
Officers had been searching the clinic in Munich, Germany, for evidence in a medical malpractice claim against the GP.
But instead they discovered more than 700 weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition...
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Fed-up driver Ernst Lukas is refusing to pay a 70 GBP speed camera ticket - after officials sent him a snap of a motor they'd photocopied from a car mag as 'evidence.'
Lukas, 72, says he and his Dacia Duster were home in Hennersdorf, Austria, more than 200 miles from where he was supposed to have broken the speed limit by 20 MPH.
But when he...
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01/11/2012 @ 13:11 (8 months ago)
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These tiny reptiles have won a big fan club at their zoo in Vienna, Austria - but spectators have got their work cut out just looking for them.
Because the two centimetre long lizards are rare panther chameleons, born with their species' amazing ability to instantly camouflage their skin colour.
Their mum gave birth to a clutch of 35 eggs at...
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These pastry chefs have just creamed off a new world title - after whipping up an astonishing two-and-a-half ton sponge cake.
The great Austrian bake off - created to celebrate the town coat of arms of Seiersberg - took more than 3,000 eggs and thousands of kilos of flour, sugar and fruit mixed with gallons of milk, say organisers.
Head chef...
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31/10/2012 @ 16:10 (8 months ago)
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This cheeky cyclist gave police a good look at his credentials - after he was flashed by a speed camera in Poland.
Traffic cops in Bialy Bor went to arrest the rider - then fully clothed - when he raced through a 30mph speed trap just over the limit.
But by the time they'd caught up with him they found him nude except for wearing his pants...
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30/10/2012 @ 12:10 (8 months ago)
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Back to the Future film fan Seva Bezrukov didn't know whether he was coming or going when his mum arranged for one of the only DeLorean cars in Russia to appear at his seventh birthday bash.
Seva - who knows every line from the time travelling movies - was desperate to sit in one of the distinctive motors that star in the films.
So mum Irena...
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30/10/2012 @ 11:10 (8 months ago)
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The British man who taught Arnold Schwarzenegger to speak English so he could make a career for himself in Hollywood has met up again with his former best friend 44 years after they had a row and never spoke again over two girls.
Roger Field, 67, who is now retired and lives in Wiesbaden in Germany met the actor in 1968 and said that he had...
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27/10/2012 @ 16:10 (8 months ago)
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It's got to be one of the nuttiest rescues these firefighters have ever had to cope with.
A squirrel burying his nuts managed to get his head stuck in a manhole cover in Munich, Germany.
Concerned passers by called the fire brigade when they spotted the distressed rodent trapped in the middle of the street as cars thundered...
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26/10/2012 @ 12:10 (8 months ago)
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Ski-whizz...These ice maidens on a new raunchy calender showing the girls waiting to teach the latest moves on the slopes are enough to melt the heart of any red-blooded sports fan.
Especially when beauties like snowboard teacher and two times world cup race winner Julia Dujmovits, 25, peel off their thermals to show off their twin...
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An Austrian court has ordered a bank robber be given back £51,000 that he stole 19 years ago because they can't find anybody else to take the money.
Otto Neuman, now aged 63, was a bank manager and the ringleader of a gang that stole £150,000 as well as gold bars and gold coins 19 years ago, and by the time police found them only £51,000 and...
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This rash driver was left high and dry after he took what looked like a tempting short cut to a space in a packed supermarket car park.
Markus Strombacher - from Sirnach, Switzerland - had been circling the spaces at his local Aldi when he spotted one on the other side of an ornamental rock barrier.
"He was going at quite a speed but he hit...
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Astonished animal rescue officials who set a trap to catch an office thief stealing petty cash discovered the culprit was a real life cat burglar.
A secret camera set up to watch a pile of banknotes left on a desk recorded pedigree Burmese puss Clement making off with the loot and stashing it under a sofa.
Shelter manager Alina Celniak, from...
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25/10/2012 @ 15:10 (8 months ago)
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A stolen undertaker's van loaded with 12 full coffins has been traced by police after a week-long hunt.
The unmarked white van was pinched in Berlin, Germany, while the driver was delivering the coffins to a crematorium.
It was found yesterday (Tuesday) stashed in woodlands over the border in Krolikow, Poland, with all 12 caskets still...
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A Russian governor has been given a slapped wrist by sharp-eyed critics after he photo-shopped an 80,000 GBP watch out of his election posters to make him look more humble.
The original snap showed veteran politician Alexander Volkov - governor in the Udmurtia Republic for 19 years - sporting an exclusive gold Breguet Classique Grande...
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A shaken family told of their terror when a car ploughed through the wall into their sitting room while they were watching TV.
Manfred Koller, 71 - from Stade, Germany - says he heard a tremendous crack as the wall gave way just feet behind him as he sat on the sofa with his wife and two grandchildren.
"I thought it was some sort of sound...
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If this art thief ever wanted to claim he's the victim of a frame up, these CCTV snaps could put him right in the picture.
The well-dressed conman has been posing as a guest at five star hotels in the Austrian capital Vienna before cutting valuable paintings from their frames and fleeing.
So far victims say he has made off with artwork worth...
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This runaway porker was definitely snout of order when police had to round him up in Stade, Germany.
The pig - one of a pair that had run riot through the town - was finally snared with a tow rope from the officer's patrol car.
"I'm not sure if I caught him or he caught me but somehow we got them both back the farm," the officer said.
Now...
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Kim Petras' cover of the Chris Brown song Don't Wake Me Up reached almost half a million hits this week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aA3DwOqHvk
It's a remarkable achievement for the German-born singer given that she has reached her worldwide fan base largely on her own initiative.
Despite the fact she recorded it at home the video has by...
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A high-heel wearing blonde has taken pole position by beating off competition from hundreds of men to be declared the winner in a car parking contest.
Hundreds applied to take part in the competition in Germany organised by the online insurance comparison website transparo, with the finalists selected after applying via Facebook and through...
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A woman who astonished commuters by riding an underground train wearing just a pair of kinky boots has been unmasked after a plea by transport officials in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
Dozens of callers have identified the woman - seen here on CCTV images - as 38-year-old woman called Eva who works for a sales company.
A nationwide hunt for...
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23/10/2012 @ 14:10 (8 months ago)
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Pediatricians should drop the white doctors' coats and wear T-shirts with cartoon characters instead according to a study carried out at the Medi-Uni Graz in Austria and published in Acta Paediatrica.
Doctors were alternately asked to wear three different clothing types while dealing with child patients, the traditional white lab coat with a...
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This pint-sized pup has got her sights set on a giant sized title - as the smallest dog in the world.
Suni - a terrier cross who weighed just 1.58 ounces (45g) when she was born - is now three months old and still barely bigger than her owner Anna Pohl's mobile phone.
And even though she now tips the scales at 3.25 ounces (100g) vets in...
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Austrian extreme sportsman Christian Redl has proved he is a high diver by climbing a peak in the Himalayas so that he could go underwater in the lake which is 5,000m above sea level.
The Viennese diver, 36, who holds eight other diving world records, was underwater for three minutes at the Goyko Lake in Nepal's Sagarmatha National Park, and...
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Dozy motorist Markus Binder got himself in a hole lot of trouble when he tried to take a short cut through roadworks - and drove down a 12ft deep pit.
Binder, 28, ignored warning signs to nip down a closed road in Ernetschwil, Switzerland, to avoid a jam.
But he was stuck fast when his car disappeared down a huge hole being dug for a new...
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A painting by Italian master Canaletto valued at 3 million GBP flopped at an auction in Vienna, Austria, last night (wednesday) when it failed to find a buyer.
The work - 'London: The New Horse Guards from Saint James’s Park' - was painted between 1752 and 1753 and is believed to be one of only three the artist did on wood.
Auctioneers...
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A bank robber who claimed to be carrying a bomb and who was wielding a handgun proved no match for an 82-year-old pensioner who bashed him with her handbag - and then pulled off his balaclava as he threatened staff at a bank at St. Egyden am Steinfeld in Lower Austria.
Hertha Wallecker, 82, saw red when Gerhard Pahlitsch ran into the local...
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18/10/2012 @ 16:10 (8 months ago)
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Staff working on the Vienna underground system had been closely studying CCTV footage for a clue as to the identity of a naked young woman wearing nothing but a pair of knee length leather boots on the train who travelled to several stops getting off again.
The woman seemed undisturbed by the fact that she was wearing nothing despite the fact...
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Austrian police are looking for a hunter who illegally shot a lynx that had escaped from a zoo in Salzburg and then put the body on a railway track to make it look as if the animal had been run over by a train.
Austrian media reported yesterday that the eight-year-old lynx that had escaped from the zoo in March had been discovered by railway...
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These real-life sleeping policemen have been carpeted by justice officials after they were snapped snoozing in their patrol car.
The pair - caught napping in a lay-by - had a rude awakening when the photographs were sent to their bosses in Nova Bystrica, Slovakia.
"I pulled up right next to them but they were so soundly asleep they didn't...
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A rare female Ibis that was named after its patron the British conservationist Jane Goodall has been shot by poachers in Italy.
The Ibis has been extinct in Europe for 400 years but this year after a project spanning 10 years a team led by bird expert Dr Johannes Fritz had finally managed to reintroduce a colony.
The shot Northern Bald Ibis...
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Even a tough nut like a rutting stag can be forced to but out when he comes across the wrong opponent.
So when this rampant stag stood his ground with a bad tempered, one ton bison there was only ever going to be one winner in this head to head.
Wildlife fan Szymon Glodkiewicz - who snapped the astonishing encounter at a zoo park in...
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A wild lynx that escaped in spring after a small landslide from a hill around its enclosure demolished a wall has been discovered run over by a train.
Keepers have spent months setting up traps around the Mautern adventure Park near Salzburg in Austria without any sign of the eight-year-old female wildcat named "Hera".
Officials had also...
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17/10/2012 @ 12:10 (8 months ago)
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Dim treasure hunter Martin Fisher sparked a full-scale bomb scare when he dug up a live World War II mortar round - and drove 10 miles to a police station to hand it in.
The 25lb cluster bomb - powerful enough to blow up a tank - was seized by army bomb disposal experts in Wuppertal, Germany, who destroyed it in a controlled...
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16/10/2012 @ 12:10 (8 months ago)
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This fuelish driver almost sparked a massive blaze at a service station in Gunzgen, Switzerland, when he forgot to put his handbrake on.
The driver Konrad Schubert - who'd stopped to give his passengers a loo break - watched in horror as the coach began to roll towards the petrol pumps.
"He tried to jump back on board but couldn't get...
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16/10/2012 @ 11:10 (8 months ago)
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Love struck Patrick Erzer, 28, was left waiting for a week after putting up a poster made of 1,700 pictures of his girlfriend Sonja Wyler, 26, to create a poster asking her to marry him.
Although he put the placard up outside their flat at Sissach in Basel so she would see it on her on her way to work he was left waiting after his girlfriend...
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15/10/2012 @ 07:10 (8 months ago)
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Baa-my rustlers who stole this flock of sheep from an Alpine farm have been warned they will never be able sell them on - because of their bizarre ultra-rare spiral horns.
The sheep - known as Racka - are among the rarest in the world and most owners know each other and their flocks personally.
Their distinctive horns can grow to two feet...
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13/10/2012 @ 18:10 (8 months ago)
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Animal rights experts are demanding consequences after a toy poodle died during a stunt on German television in which a contestant claimed to be able to identify the dog's breed by its hair.
The miniature poodle called "Monarch" was on the show together with its owner and 21 other dogs when the accident happened.
Dog hairdresser Monika...
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Austrian zookeepers are preparing this panda cub for the long trip back to his Chinese homeland by rewarding him with carrots and sweet potatoes every time he gets into the travel cage that will be used to transport him.
Austria's Schönbrunn zoo has two giant pandas on loan from China and under the terms of the agreement for the loan of the...
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Human slot machine Ranjan Dash is coining it in baffling audiences in Bhubaneswar, eastern India, with his bizarre ability to swallow and regurgitate cash.
Dash, 32, first noticed his unusual talent when as a schoolboy he discovered he could swallow crib sheets before exams and bring them up during the tests.
Now he astonishes fans by...
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A TV stunt show is being investigated by safety watchdogs in Germany after a contestant nearly drowned as he sat in a tank of water trying to win a 50,000 GBP prize.
The show - My Man Can - is due to win a prime time slot in Britain after ITV filmed a pilot earlier this year in Cologne, where the German version is made.
Male contestants'...
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A gigantic Stone Age chalk carving of a two kilometre-long moose could be the oldest ever discovered in the world, scientists in Russia believe.
The massive moose - carved into a hillside in the Southern Urals like Britain's Cerne Abbas Giant - is understood to have been carved by prehistoric man up to 8,000 years ago.
Archaeologists from...
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26/09/2012 @ 13:09 (9 months ago)
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Now that's what you call a beer tent.
Revellers at the world's biggest beer festival have been offered the perfect way to sleep off the after effects at Oktoberfest in Germany - under a canvas decorated with more then 500 empties.
The 120 GBP-a-night berth - set up in a Munich garden - is just a short stagger from the festival...
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Ewe know what it's like when you've got your eye on bargain.
But these ram-raiders in the Austrian ski resort St Anton drove the owners of this sports shop baa-my - when a flock of eighty of them invaded the store in front of baffled shoppers.
"We think one of them saw its reflection in a mirror and came in to investigate," said a spokesman...
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25/09/2012 @ 10:09 (9 months ago)
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The glassy eyes, the glazed expressions, the lederhosen - it can only be a Bavarian beer festival.
But there's a reason why these apparently famous boozers look like they've had a stiff one or two - they're all waxworks dressed up for the occasion by staff at Austria's branch of Madame Tussaud's.
Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger, singer...
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Worshippers at this Sikh temple in northern India are getting a real spiritual high - giving miniature aircraft as holy offerings to make their dreams of foreign travel come true.
Thousands of devotees who flock to the the temple - in Talhan, in the Punjab - see the model aircraft as a symbol for a wealthy, jet-setting life.
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21/09/2012 @ 14:09 (9 months ago)
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As cemeteries go, this is certainly a highly irregular final restauranting place.
Because this graveyard in Ahmedabad, western India, has been turned into a cafe where diners eat at tables surrounded by tombs and headstones.
Owner Krishan Kutti Nair started out with a tea stand outside the Muslim cemetery to serve mourners.
"But...
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Modern talking singer Dieter Bohlen is being sued by an overweight Austrian after he was described as "The Monster From the Deep" when he was filmed walking on a beach where the star was filming a casting show in the Maldives.
Bohlen was filming the latest in his series "Germany Seeks A Superstar - Recall" when he spotted Herbert Paris, 69,...
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A supermarket chain which advertises using a slogan that urges more common sense in shopping has been selling peeled bananas on plastic trays wrapped in foil.
But the stunt by the German-owned Billa supermarket chain - part of the Rewe group that has thousands of stores in 9 European countries, has caused outrage among users after it was posted...
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A hero holidaymaker needed rock solid nerves when he saved a coachload of 50 passengers after a boulder smashed through the windscreen and knocked out the driver.
The coach - returning from Turkey to Serbia - was winding through mountain roads when the football sized rock burst through the glass.
Passenger Srdja Stolic explained: "The driver...
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This life-sized one legged cut-out of former Wimbledon champ Boris Becker caught motorists on the hop when it was left standing in a road in Kiel, Germany.
Police believe the bogus Boris was abandoned on the unlit road by pranksters on their way home from the pub.
"It gave me a real shock when I saw those steely eyes in my headlights," one...
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19/09/2012 @ 12:09 (9 months ago)
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An ornamental chariot bearing a naked goddess that was built 700 years before the birth of Christ and which is worth over 40 million pounds is heading to London.
The bronze-age Strettweg Chariot was found by a farmer ploughing his field near Judenburg, Austria in 1851.
It was regarded as so valuable that a special law was introduced banning...
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Austrian police have called off the search for a two-meter long crocodile that came out of the river to chase two children and munched their croc shoes before swimming off after a DNA test on the shoes failed to locate crocodile DNA.
The police said they were not ruling out that the story was true, especially after a German hiker also claimed...
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Austrian experts are invstigating a mysterious metal ball weighing four tonnes after it was dug up during work to build a road at Waizenkirchen at Grieskirchen in Upper Austria.
The discovery has caused heated debate among locals with some saying it was a meteorite, others that it was a religious artefact. It has also attracted the attention of...
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A Russian holidaymaker is facing jail after he failed to declare at customs a 1.2 million GBP diamond-studded watch he'd brought back to Moscow after a trip to New York.
The gem-encrusted Rainbow Tourbillon white gold watch - made by exclusive Jacob & Co - far exceeds Russia's 10,000 Euro limit for undeclared goods.
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A father and his teenage son are in intensive car after crashing a home-made go-kart into a concrete wall at 50 mph during a race.
Horrified spectators watched on as Andreas Bauer, 46, and son Max, 16, hurtled into the wall at high speed after failing to make a turn during the race in Wittinsburg, Switzerland.
The pair had been regulars at...
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Alpine experts in Austria have pulled off their most bizarre rescue bid - after a giddy mountain goat suddenly lost its head for heights.
Pet goat Ricki was spotted stranded 9,000 ft up a cliffside in Rauris, near Salzburg, after his owner reported him missing.
Mountain goats are normally able to scale near vertical slopes with ease, but...
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Terrified German squaddies are refusing to go out on night manoeuvres after being driven wild by a pack of young wolves.
The wolves - believed to be brothers - have been using the trainee soldiers in Munster for stalking practice as the troopers carry out black out exercises.
"They sneak up on you and leap on you without a sound. They try to...
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A callous crook who stole from a drunk who'd passed out on a railway track and then left his victim to be run over by a train has been arrested by police in Stockholm, Sweden.
CCTV footage of taken from the Sandsborg subway station shows the thief hop down onto the track and search the pockets of the drunk after he collapsed in the early hours...
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An adventure loving Swedish woman who pledged to give up base jumping after getting pregnant has died after deciding to make one last jump before retiring.
Wioletta Roslan, 37, from Sweden, became an adrenaline junkie after she started skydiving when she was just 19-years-old.
She later started wing walking strapped to the wings of a biplane...
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The world's most famous dead composers like Beethoven and Schubert are to be brought back to life by QR headstones that will play their works to passers by.
Officials at Vienna's Central Cemetery in Austria are to place QR - or Quick Response - codes on the musicians' tombstones so anyone with a smartphone can interact with them.
The...
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15/09/2012 @ 14:09 (9 months ago)
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This slippery customer has every right to be prickly, after spending all night trapped in a bucket of engine oil.
The young hedgehog was found in a garage by a home owner in Wernberg, Austria, who'd been servicing his motor the day before.
Animal rescue experts spent hours cleaning every one of the animal's 9,000 spines before allowing him...
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A labourer is suing bootleggers in eastern India - claiming the cut his hand off when he asked them for his wages.
Aliyar Rajwar claims brothers Lalman and Uday Yadav - who run an illicit booze business in Sikhnadi - attacked him with an axe when he demanded the 150 GBP they said they'd pay him for digging a waterhole.
"First he says they...
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A truck carrying thousands of bottles of beer caused traffic chaos - when its driver hit a motorway signpost in Sattledt, Austria.
Police and firefighters closed the highway for four hours while they cleared more than 10,000 pints of lager, broken bottles and leaking kegs from the road.
Driver Walter Moser told police he had been checking if...
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Astonished traffic cops nicked a British trucker in Germany when they spotted his tyres were more than 22 years old.
The totally bald tyres were clearly marked 'Made in German Democratic Republic', which collapsed with the fall of Communism in 1990.
"These are real museum pieces. The tyres were older than he was," said a police spokesman in...
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Shocked cops had their own emergency on their way to a 999 call - when a 16 inch snake slithered out of an air vent.
Officers had picked up the snake earlier and left in in a transport box in their boot when they got another emergency call.
"As they drove to the call they saw the snake's head pop out of an air vent, have a good look at them,...
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Residents in one of Germany's rudest villages have been driven bonkers by their saucy name - Bonktown.
Now Town Hall officials in Poppenhausen have decided if you can't beat them, join them and have turned the town into one of the sexiest sightseeing spots in the country.
"We had lots of people coming to the town because of its name, because...
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Detectives had no problem sniffing out who was responsible for this post office robbery in Genoa, Italy - after they identified the crooks instantly because of their huge hooters.
Police watching CCTV footage of the armed robbery recognised cousins Giorgio and Emilio Russo from the shape of their noses, even though they were hidden under ski...
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Art fans in Switzerland have been left baffled by a half-baked exhibition by a concept sculptor - made entirely of spuds.
The work - Potatoes by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone - features scores of the veggies grown in special bronze moulds made from the sculptor's ears, eyes, nose and mouth.
Penone then lays the bronze moulds on top of the...
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A British bomb that helped to flatten Germany in World War II is going under the hammer on eBay.
The seller says the bomb fragment - which has no explosives left - was salvaged after army explosives experts blew up a 500lb bomb that had been dug up by builders in Munich.
Bidding, with three days (sept 13) before the hammer falls, is hardly...
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This adorable baby kangaroo and his zoo keeper have clearly become the bust of friends after the 10-day-old youngster was abandoned by his mother.
Baby 'roo Daisy - who weighs just 380 grams (13 ounces) - likes nothing better than the snuggle up under Julia Mitterbauer's top since her mum rejected her soon after her birth at Schmiding Zoo,...
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08/09/2012 @ 16:09 (9 months ago)
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This driver is tanking his lucky stars - after he survived when his delivery van was crushed in a collision with the Swiss Army.
Soldiers on military exercises in Unterrealta, Switzerland, had been controlling traffic to allow a column of tanks to pass through a junction safely.
But they failed to see the mini truck speeding through -...
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A man who was filmed dumping a human body in a busy road during rush hour is being quizzed by police in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Footage of the incident - shot by a shocked motorist - shows Jaroslav Kryukov staggering into the street and weaving through traffic before he drops the body.
The driver told police that the man had ordered him not to...
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By Central European News Ltd
An artist who went off his rocker when this sculpture of the Trojan horse made entirely of computer keys was hacked to pieces in a row over rent is suing his landlord for 73,500 GBP compensation.
Sculptor Babis Panagiotidis created the work - known as 'Pleasure is My Trojan Horse' - for an art show in Nuremberg, Germany.
But after the show...
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08/09/2012 @ 16:09 (9 months ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
Beer festival bosses have busted a fake cocaine to be sold by barmaids in low cut traditional dresses at this year's Oktoberfest in Germany.
Businessman Wolfgang Stanek says he invented 'Wiesn Cocaine' - or festival cocaine - specially for the event in Munich, which opens later this month.
The sealed 5 GBP-a-time sachets contain nothing...
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07/09/2012 @ 12:09 (9 months ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
A female British tourist has been seriously injured after tomb-stoning 60ft from the top of a tunnel into the sea on the Croatian holiday island Vis.
The 27-year-old woman - identified only as K A Hardyment from London by local police - was with a group of British friends when they jumped from the top of the arch.
It had been originally...
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06/09/2012 @ 11:09 (9 months ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
Motorists who hate to be stuck in traffic could be about to get a jammy break - thanks to a futuristic new road repairer.
The machine - dubbed the Red Carpet - has been dreamed up by inventors and designers at road building plant specialists Dynapac.
Head designer Gosha Galitsky says motorists will be able to simply drive over a rolling ramp...
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06/09/2012 @ 11:09 (9 months ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
Oddball Alexey Bykov wanted to see if his girlfriend really did love him to death - so he faked his own demise in a bizarre proposal.
Alexey, 30 - from Omsk, Russia - hired a movie director, stuntmen, make-up artists, and even a script writer to stage a bogus car crash so that when girlfriend Irena Kolokov arrived she would be convinced he was...
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05/09/2012 @ 14:09 (9 months ago)
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By Central European News Ltd
Coffee shop owner Julius Meinl can hardly espresso his joy - after serving up the planet's biggest ever record-breaking cup of cappuccino in a specially built 440-gallon mug.
Julius - whose shop in Zagreb, Croatia, has been in business for 150 years - used 1,000 trained baristas to operate more than 20 traditional coffee machines for the record...
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05/09/2012 @ 14:09 (9 months ago)
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By Central Euro