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Reuters - Police in Germany thought they had an open and shut case of drink-driving when the dazed and confused owner of a wrecked car appeared before them badly hung-over and wearing nothing but his underpants...

Reuters - A young Russian man who dressed in women's clothes to sit an exam for his sister was caught after his oversize bust gave him away, Interfax news agency reported on Monday...

Reuters - Move over Harry Potter. In Amman's downtown bazaars, the bestselling book these days is Saddam Hussein's bootlegged novel "Get out of here, curse you!" http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050701/od_uk_nm/oukoe_saddam_novel

Reuters - Spanish police have broken up a gang of Ecuadoreans posing as dentists who offered compatriots in Madrid cheap treatment but carried it out so badly that several of their patients needed emergency hospital treatment...

Reuters - A museum devoted to curry-flavoured sausage, a popular snack known to Germans as currywurst, is set to open early next year in Berlin, the head of the museum said on Thursday...

Reuters - The regulator that oversees premium-rate phone services is launching a probe into the wildly popular "Crazy Frog" mobile phone ringtone, after complaints that it dupes children into signing up for an expensive subscription plan...

Reuters - Rock group U2 went to court on Tuesday to recover 5,000 euros (3,323 pounds) worth of memorabilia -- including a pair of lead singer Bono's trousers -- from a former stylist...

Reuters - The possibility of a romance and marriage across the Demilitarised Zone that divides the Korean peninsula had South Korea's Unification Ministry scrambling on Monday...

Reuters - Jordan has banned Saddam Hussein's new novel on the grounds the tale of an Arab tribesman who defeats a foreign intruder could hurt relations between the two countries, censors and the publisher said on Sunday...

Reuters - A woman shoplifter in Germany abandoned her three-month-old baby after being caught stealing from a supermarket, authorities said on Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050624/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_germany_thief

Reuters - Burglars beware, robot guards are here. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050623/od_uk_nm/oukoe_security_japan_robot

Reuters - An Indian crime reporter has been arrested over a spate of dozens of car thefts and burglaries, accused of using his contacts to move stolen goods, newspapers reported on Thursday...

A U.S. Air Force Academy chaplain who criticized the "pervasive evangelical climate" at the college resigned from the military ahead of the release on Wednesday of a report on religious bias at the institution...

Reuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi repeated one of his most famous diplomatic gaffes on Tuesday by insulting the cuisine of Finland which Italy beat to host the new European Food Safety Authority...

Christian girls just want to have fun too, and the U.S. publishing industry is working overtime to cater to a growing demand for good, clean fun...

Reuters - Brazilian agriculture tycoon Blairo Maggi, the world's largest soy producer, has been voted winner of environmental group Greenpeace's first Golden Chainsaw award for contributing to Amazon destruction...

Reuters - Two Amur tiger cubs rejected by their mother have been adopted by a dog whose owner answered a Russian zoo's appeal for a foster parent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050618/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_russia_tiger

More than a dozen Chinese nationals detained in Australia for immigration violations slashed their wrists and body parts in attempted suicide on Saturday fearing they will be deported, refugee advocates said...

Reuters - Danish zookeepers slaughtered animals in their care, including more than 50 muskrats, and served the meat to unsuspecting friends and family until zoos changed their rules, newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported on Friday...

Reuters - A handful of hardy souls will descend on a quiet village this weekend to stuff their mouths full of stinging nettles in a bizarre competition which started as an argument in a pub...