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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.

AP - City authorities, fed up with gang activity in public places, are taking Bach their bus stop.

AP - Berlin has named a street honoring Frank Zappa.

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.

AP - The land that gave the world Robert Burns also has the dubious honor of producing the “world’s worst poet.” Now fans of the hapless William McGonagall are campaigning to put him in the pantheon of Scottish literary greats.

AP - Oh, no! Don’t forget the exclamation point! It could cost you $1,000! Kevin Taylor, 30, of Minneapolis, lost out on a $1,000 first prize in a text messaging contest at the North Dakota State Fair because he forgot the punctuation mark at the end of a phrase that he and his sudden-death competitor […]

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)