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Reuters - China has banned "sexually provocative
sounds" on television and pulled the plug on a show
reconstructing infamous crimes by women ahead of a major
Communist Party meeting next month.

Reuters - Three Mexican minors detained
in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S.
Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it
back across the border to Mexico.

Reuters - An Australian "prankster" barmaid who
served a patron a shot of disinfectant has appeared in court
over what her lawyers said was a "misguided" joke.

AP - A two-headed turtle captured by a turtle collector is a rare example of a conjoined-twin birth, its owner said.

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

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 two-headed turtle captured by a turtle collector is a rare example of a conjoined-twin birth, its owner said.

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.”