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AP - He’s now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he’s having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria’s Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.

AP - A Farmington woman accused of driving for half a mile with her husband on the hood of her car and her 9-year-old child in the front passenger seat now faces criminal charges.

Reuters - China plans to spend close to 4 billion
yuan (262.5 million pounds) over the next three years to ensure
that all of its villages has a cultural centre where residents
can learn, play and be entertained, state media said.

Reuters - Nigerian police have arrested a
witchdoctor employed by a politician to perform rituals at an
election tribunal, local media reported on Thursday.

Reuters - So many candidates are running in
Bulgaria's local elections next month that ballots stretch to 2
metres (6-1/2 ft) and won't fit into the country's largest
envelopes.

Reuters - Tonga's senior players will take the
field against England on Friday with their hair dyed green to
highlight the money problems the island nation had in making it
to the World Cup, centre Epeli Taione said on Thursday.

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

Reuters - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed
to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush
told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: "Childrens
do learn."

Reuters - Right-to-die group Dignitas has been
barred from its premises in a Zurich suburb after neighbors
objected to the use of the apartment for assisted suicides, the
local council said Wednesday.

Reuters - If you are in Sudan it is a 'missed
call'. In Ethiopia it is a 'miskin' or a 'pitiful' call. In
other parts of Africa it is a case of 'flashing', 'beeping' or
in French-speaking areas 'bipage'.