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A shoplifter found herself battling the effects of gravity during a chase through the streets of Auckland.

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Monty the python makes hissstory

Even if snakes don’t usually bother you, the sheer size of this one might just send a shiver down your spine.

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Birthday boy shares cabin with croc

A fisherman in Australia's far north reportedly spent his 45th birthday sharing a caravan park cabin with a 2-metre crocodile.

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Nepal holds longest talk show
April 15 2013 at 20:52

A Nepali television host has earned the Guinness world record for the longest television talk show in a marathon discussion which lasted more than two days.

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Swallowed ring recovered
April 15 2013 at 15:51

Police say they've got the $3 200 engagement ring a US man allegedly swallowed during an attempted jewellery store theft.

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FILE - This is a Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 file photo of actor Nazif Mujic with his Silver Bear Best Actor award for his role in An Episode In the Life of an Iron Picker, at the closing ceremony at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin. People in the Gypsy village of Poljice in Bosnia said they will never forget the night they almost fell off their chairs two months ago. Did they really hear the elegant woman on TV correctly? Could she really be talking about their neighbor, the toothless man who passed his days selling scrap metal? The camera switched to a frightened-looking Nazif Mujic. Yes it was him. THEIR Nazif _ who had just left Matt Damon and Jude Law in the dust to win the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival.(AP Photo/Gero Breloer, File)

Toothless Gypsy’s unlikely accolade
April 12 2013 at 20:09

A toothless Bosnian Gypsy left Matt Damon and Jude Law in the dust to win the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Five people have been killed in shark attacks at western Australian beaches in the past two years and there have been far more sightings of large shark packs near to shore.

Video: Man fights shark for tuna
April 12 2013 at 08:27

Every fisherman has a story about the one that got away, but this man was lucky enough to tape his battle with a big fish.

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Staff forced to show bra size
April 11 2013 at 15:36

A Swedish lingerie chain was found guilty of gender discrimination after forcing one of its employees to display her bra size.

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British singer John Lydon performs with his band Public image Limited in Beijing on March 30, 2013.

‘Shut up when a man is talking’
April 11 2013 at 14:25

John Lydon has been branded a “sexist, misogynist pig” after ordering a female host to “shut up when a man is talking”.

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This February 6, 2013 file photo shows actress Sarah Jessica Parker at amfAR's New York gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

Bradshaw’s shoes go under the hammer
April 11 2013 at 14:25

Sarah Jessica Parker is donating a pair of Dolce Vita Pumps to raise money for a New York high school.

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Google recorded revenues of �11.9-billion between 2006 and 2011, according to American stock market filings.

Google snaps couple ‘having sex on road’
April 11 2013 at 09:27

An Australian couple shot to fame on social media after an image of them having sex made it onto Google Street View.

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A road sign near Uluru (Ayers Rock), about 350km south-west of the central Australian town of Alice Springs, warns drivers of the dangers of kangaroos crossing the road. Thousands of people from around the globe have applied for Australia's six

Australia seeks ‘chief funster’ for parties
April 11 2013 at 09:01

Fancy being an Outback adventurer? Island caretaker? Australia’s six top jobs have scores of applicants.

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A general view of the Louvre Museum in Lens, northern France. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Museum guards protest pickpockets
April 10 2013 at 20:12

The world famous Louvre was shut for a day as guards protested that pickpockets were rampant at the world's most visited museum.

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The bare cheek of it all!

REUTERS

Monty the python makes hissstory

AP

Birthday boy shares cabin with croc

Nepal holds longest talk show April 15 2013 at 20:52

Swallowed ring recovered April 15 2013 at 15:51

Toothless Gypsy’s unlikely accolade April 12 2013 at 20:09

Video: Man fights shark for tuna April 12 2013 at 08:27

Staff forced to show bra size April 11 2013 at 15:36

‘Shut up when a man is talking’ April 11 2013 at 14:25

Bradshaw’s shoes go under the hammer April 11 2013 at 14:25

Google snaps couple ‘having sex on road’ April 11 2013 at 09:27

Australia seeks ‘chief funster’ for parties April 11 2013 at 09:01

Museum guards protest pickpockets April 10 2013 at 20:12

Nepal holds longest talk show
April 15 2013 at 20:52

Swallowed ring recovered
April 15 2013 at 15:51

Toothless Gypsy’s unlikely accolade
April 12 2013 at 20:09

Video: Man fights shark for tuna
April 12 2013 at 08:27

Staff forced to show bra size
April 11 2013 at 15:36

‘Shut up when a man is talking’
April 11 2013 at 14:25

Bradshaw’s shoes go under the hammer
April 11 2013 at 14:25

Google snaps couple ‘having sex on road’
April 11 2013 at 09:27

Australia seeks ‘chief funster’ for parties
April 11 2013 at 09:01

Museum guards protest pickpockets
April 10 2013 at 20:12