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Reuters - A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by
artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for
the asking price of $100 million (50 million pounds), a
spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on
Thursday.

AP - An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

AP - Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

AP - Jeshuah Fuller’s parents expected him to be born with extra fingers. The extra toes, though, were a surprise.

AP - The naked truth: Three eastern Missouri men were willing to go to extreme lengths to get some beer.

AP - An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

AP - When the cook on his shrimp boat went into labor 30 miles offshore, captain Ed Keisel grabbed a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook and did the best he could.

Reuters - In the world of international
diplomacy, the best chosen words or phrases can leave an
audience laughing, bewildered or simply lost in translation, if
the experience of Australia's former top diplomat is any guide.

Reuters - The grass may be greener on the inside
for inmates at Japan's Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots
have been sprouting in the exercise yard.

Reuters - A lonely wild male elephant raided a
female elephant stable at a circus in eastern India and wooed
one of its residents to elope with him, a newspaper report said
on Thursday.