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Reuters - Two thieves armed only with ketchup
ambushed a supermarket employee as he was taking cash to the
bank, Greek police said on Tuesday.

Reuters - A two-metre shark has been
caught in a river in southern Iraq more than 200 km (160 miles)
from the sea.

Reuters - Three Romanian boxers have been given
life bans after they were caught shoplifting in a plush Chicago
department store during the world amateur championships.

Reuters - A Belgian inmate made a dramatic
escape from jail for the fourth time Sunday evening after his
armed accomplices landed in the prison grounds in a hijacked
helicopter, prosecutors said Monday.

Reuters - Two men and a woman who used an
ordinary cardboard box to break into over 200 Toronto area
fast-food joints were caught by lucky timing, police said on
Friday.

Reuters - A city in China’s central Hunan
Province set off a 20 km (12.4 mile) string of firecrackers
this week — despite failing to persuade Guinness World Records
to verify the event, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Reuters - A family values campaigner accused of
taking pornographic photographs of himself has been dumped as a
candidate for Australia’s November election by the
Christian-values Family First Party.

AP - A Teaneck hospital lab technician has been jailed after being accused of sexually abusing the corpse of a 92-year-old woman, authorities say.

AP - A traffic stop in Texas yielded about two dozen embalmed heads. But it’s no Halloween joke. Investigators said the human heads had been used for medical training in the Fort Worth area and were being returned to Little Rock, Arkansas.

AP - Police said siblings who fought over shaving the family pet cat last week over fleas have scratched out a deal.