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Reuters - Days after banning "sexually
provocative sounds" on television, China has now stopped
networks showing "saucy" adverts for push-up bras and
figure-hugging underwear ahead of a major Communist Party
meeting next month.

Reuters - "Yokozuna" Hakuho was given more than 100
horses and sheep in his native Mongolia to celebrate his latest
major sumo tournament victory.

Reuters - The strong Canadian
dollar has hit the illegal marijuana sector just as it has
other industries that export to the United States, one of
Canada's best known legalization advocates said on Thursday.

AP - A man pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing more than 1,500 pairs of girls’ shoes from area schools in a deal that calls for prosecutors to recommend probation.

AP - A pet store has bought a two-headed turtle from a collector and plans to keep it on display, the store manager said. The 2-month-old turtle, actually conjoined red-eared slider twins, fits on a silver dollar.

Reuters - The strong Canadian
dollar has hit the illegal marijuana sector just as it has
other industries that export to the United States, one of
Canada's best known legalization advocates said on Thursday.

AP - Brazil’s national electricity grid is laying on extra energy to avoid a nationwide blackout Friday when the final chapter of the hit soap opera “Tropical Paradise” airs, officials said Thursday.

AP - A small Russian city just got a really big addition: a 17-pound, 1 ounce baby whose mother had already delivered 11 other children.

AP - Something that smelled like a wet dog that rolled in manure and a report of a pungent, foul odor that has persisted for the last 13 years are among the calls so far to a 24-hour “odor hot line.”

AP - Morrisville police have charged a man with assault on a government official after an officer said the man coughed into his face during a traffic stop.