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AP - Crocs, the rubbery, clog-like shoes, have been deemed inappropriate footwear for workers in patient-care areas at a hospital.

Reuters - Pierre Trudeau, the former
prime minister who worked to unite French and English Canada,
topped an Internet poll as the worst Canadian, a history
magazine revealed on Monday.

Reuters - A Chinese wildlife research centre has
come up with a novel idea to profit from panda poo — make
Olympic souvenirs out of it.

Reuters - U.S. stocks had a tough week with the
Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its worst one-week point
drop in five years, but a group of meditators promise their
good vibrations will send the index past 17,000 within a year.

Reuters - Insulted by a fashion article about
Hillary Clinton's cleavage, her presidential campaign is trying
to use the incident to raise money.

Reuters - Krystyna Zbyszynska, 84, became Poland's
oldest parachutist when she made her first jump with her
daughter-in-law, news channel TVN24 reported on Sunday.

Reuters - (Corrects second paragraph to say Times of India reported,
not Hindustan Times)

Reuters - A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways
flight at Milan's Linate airport for nearly three hours after
discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next
to men they did not know.

Reuters - China has ordered all hotels, holiday
resorts and public showers to provide condoms, part of
nationwide efforts to fight the spread of AIDS, a newspaper
said on Friday.

Reuters - A man who attempted to rob an
Australian fish and chip shop found himself on the losing side
when the angry shop owner threw fish batter and hot oil at him.