Slow news day

[expat]

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Police said a 75-year-old woman drove the wrong way on New York's Tappan Zee Bridge. State police in Tarrytown said the woman entered the highway from the Exit 9 off-ramp Sunday morning and drove north in the southbound lanes of the bridge. She drove about two miles before she was stopped.
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Ah, the Tappan Zee. If she had managed to drive the wrong way on Monday morning, that would be news.

[thelace]

Pope Benedict has a website, his own YouTube channel and he's on the social networking site Facebook -- now he's about to release his first album.


Has anyone seen the Pope and Britney in the same room? Well have ya?

They are the same person I tell you

[AlfredJPruffock]

A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun.

Silly Frau - you can die from heat exhaustion in this scenario - hope she was OK

[darmstadt]

A Nigerian convicted of assault in Spain was acquitted when he was found to have been the only black man in an identity parade used as key evidence in his conviction, the government-run news agency EFE reported on Tuesday

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After centuries of praying for a local glacier to stop growing, Swiss villagers are now seeking an audience with Pope Benedict to get his blessing for prayers against the global warming that is causing it to recede.

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Four Guantanamo prisoners who were released to Bermuda in June have been given jobs tending a public golf course on the tiny Atlantic island.

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Pope Benedict has a website, his own YouTube channel and he's on the social networking site Facebook -- now he's about to release his first album.

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More Americans are turning to charm school in a bid to gain an advantage over rivals in a job market battered by the longest economic slump since the Great Depression, experts say.

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Police said a 75-year-old woman drove the wrong way on New York's Tappan Zee Bridge. State police in Tarrytown said the woman entered the highway from the Exit 9 off-ramp Sunday morning and drove north in the southbound lanes of the bridge. She drove about two miles before she was stopped.

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A group of Tampa inmates is offering a taste of what it's like jail — no locks, bars or handcuffs required. But you'd better have an tough stomach to use more than a dash of their "Jailhouse Fire Hot Sauce." Minimum-security Hillsborough County Jail inmates offer it in "Original," "Smoke" and "No Escape" varieties, all made from their jail-grown peppers.

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A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun.

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An extremely drunk, naked man lost his way at a New Zealand hotel and ended up sleeping in the wrong room, forcing its female occupant to hide in the bathroom, local media reported.