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Breaking News: Rare 18th-century Chinese vase fetches £1m in auction
Posted by: prabirghose

Oxford :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-20 01:12:40 -0700 | odd-news

The owner of the tiny 8-inch Chinese vase of the 18th-century vintage never imagined it to be such a costly piece of acquisition as reported in news.sky.com of dated 15th of March 2013. It was made for the Qianlong Emperor...
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Breaking News: 50-year old woman of Cornwall walked out on her family through the kitchen window
Posted by: prabirghose

Camelford :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-20 01:14:12 -0700 | odd-news

One night, a farmer's wife dressed in only her nightdress walked out on her family through the kitchen window and was finally located 9-miles away after two days. It seems she had a problem of sleepwalking and had left her...
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Breaking News: Sammy the seal must get its daily dose of salmons from Billingsgate Market
Posted by: prabirghose

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-18 04:59:57 -0700 | odd-news

Sammy the seal and Billingsgate Market appear to have become inseparable because, no matter how hard one tries to keep him away, Sammy keeps retuning to the market for his daily dose of salmon that he gets from the dockside...
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Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-19 13:55:18 -0700 | odd-news

London - The Irish millionaire Kevin McGeever, who in January said he had been kidnapped, detained on suspicion of having wasted police time. Real estate mogul, 68, appeared gaunt last January and barefoot on a road in County Leitrim, near...
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Breaking News: 62-year-old Brit, who wrestled a shark away from kids, fired from job (Video)
Posted by: madn3wz

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-13 22:53:48 -0700 | odd-news

London (Thu, Mar 14) – Reported by madn3wz Paul Marshallsea, the 62-year-old British, who wrestled a shark to keep it away from children at an Australian beach has been fired from his job at a British charity because he had...
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Breaking News: Queen Elizabeth II signs  Historic Commonwealth Charter
Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-15 06:07:37 -0700 | odd-news

The British Queen, Elizabeth II, also head of state of 15 other domains of the British Commonwealth, known as Commonwealth, this afternoon signed the Charter of the Commonwealth in London. The Charter of the Commonwealth consists of 16 statements on...
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Breaking News: 16-year old boy of Birmingham pleads guilty to terrorism charges
Posted by: prabirghose

Birmingham :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-14 18:24:01 -0700 | humanitarian-news

A 16-year old boy of Birmingham has admitted to hatching a plan to kill students in his school and keep on killing till the police arrived on the scene when he would turn the gun on himself and end his...
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Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-13 09:54:17 -0700 | odd-news

Former Minister for Energy and Climate Change Chris Hyun and his ex-wife Vicky Price sentenced to prison for eight months. The couple was found guilty on charges of fraud penalties assessed for violations of traffic regulations. According to British media...
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Breaking News: UK : The Islamist Abu Qatada again sent to jail by Britain
Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-12 15:20:54 -0700 | odd-news

Local media reported the arrest of a radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada at the fact that he violated the terms of his release on bail. "The UK Border Agency has arrested a 52-year Qatada in north London for the fact...
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Breaking News: UK accuses Argentina of "twisting controversy" in  Malvinas case
Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-12 15:47:59 -0700 | odd-news

The Argentine government accused the United Kingdom of trying to misrepresent the dispute it has with Buenos Aires from January 3, 1833 for sovereignty in the Falkland Islands, located in the South Atlantic, rather than resolve it. The South American...
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Breaking News: LONDON : Queen Elizabeth II to resume public duties
Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-12 12:47:21 -0700 | odd-news

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, March 11 to take part in the events in honor of the Commonwealth, which will be her first public appearance after the disease that the head of state has been forced to spend the...
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Posted by: imdad ali

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-08 04:32:51 -0800 | odd-news

Stowaway cat surivived 3500km route from Egypt to the United Kingdom within the suitcase owner. Well-traveled cat was quarantined, surviving 3540 km way from Egypt to the UK in case their unwitting owner. Bisou, which was accidentally zipped inside in...
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Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-07 02:41:25 -0800 | odd-news

Sophisticated computer system "Socrates" was intended for automatic transformation of foreign language audio into written English texts. Journalists in Berkshire, where more than 70 years in the Air Force operates monitoring department of foreign media detest the cost of the...
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Breaking News: Cull the deer in England to reduce road accidents
Posted by: prabirghose

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-07 03:24:03 -0800 | odd-news

Deer had not been in existence in England even 1000-years back and had been introduced by the Victorians - and today, the population of deer is more than it was in the Ice Age as reported in news.sky.com of dated...
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Breaking News: Princess Catherine implied in a slip to be a girl
Posted by: rsa76

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-10 09:28:02 -0700 | odd-news

LONDON-- The Duchess of Cambridge Catherine Middleton, wife of Prince William, hinted to be a girl, judging by a slip he had during an official visit. The duchess, five months pregnant, was chatting with curious on Tuesday during a visit...
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