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Nepal's former king has been given his first passport aged 63, a year-and-a-half after stepping down from the throne, the government ... more
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No matter if children are naughty or nice, they won't get a reply from Santa this year, as the US Postal Service has blocked mail to a tiny Alaska town ... more
The only rule is to be perched on heels at least eight centimetres (three inches) high -- the prize is boxes and boxes of shoes. ... more
"Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp is the sexiest man on the planet, according to People magazine Wednesday. ... more
Talk about Washington and London's special relationship. ... more
After a life of crime stretching back 53 years, a 70-year-old German woman was finally behind bars on Wednesday after pickpocketing a woman 10 years her senior at the bus stop, police said. ... more
An 81-year-old Australian man who became lost on an early morning drive to the shops and ended up almost 600 kilometres (370 miles) away told police he failed to stop because he "liked to drive". ... more
British man killed his wife in his sleep, after dreaming that she was an intruder in their camper van, a court heard on Tuesday. ... more
A German orchestra announced plans on Tuesday to play a concert in a brothel in a novel effort to bring classical music "out of the concert hall and to where people are." ... more
Santa promised children on Tuesday he would travel around the world to bring them Christmas presents despite the global swine flu pandemic. ... more
A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy appeared in a Western Australian court on Monday charged with receiving a stolen chocolate frog worth about 70 cents (65 US cents), reports said. ... more
A 55-year-old Taiwanese man tricked up to 20 women into having sex with him in an elaborate scam where he posed as both a handsome young man and that man's ailing father, local media said Monday. ... more
Voters tired of slick, endless election campaign broadcasts may finally have a sanctuary: in Chile. ... more
India's 74-year-old president has been passed fit to fly in a supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet later this month after undergoing a series of medical tests, the country's airforce chief said Friday. ... more
US President Barack Obama charmed his Tokyo audience Saturday with references to green tea ice cream, Japanese traditional hospitality and, of course, the small town that bears his name. ... more
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