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AP - Missing: one parrot with Brooklyn accent. Reward: $10,000. The African gray parrot named Franklin disappeared from a pet boarding facility in Manhattan the day before Thanksgiving, said owner Leigh Ann Frankel.

AP - A teenager says he held up a dozen businesses in part to get “gas money” but made sure the heists wouldn’t make him miss curfew or church on Sundays with his mom.

AP - Mary Moran figures she’ll turn that 3-foot stump in her front yard into a Christmas statement of sorts. Moran awoke Wednesday to find that a long-needled pine the family had decorated for years was cut down and stolen during the night.

Reuters - A thief made off with 180 kegs of
Guinness beer after smoothly driving into the Dublin brewery
which makes the black stout and snatching a trailer load of
drink, police said on Thursday.

Reuters - When does a legitimate Russian political
protest become an illegal gathering? Answer: When a second
person joins in to spoil it.

Reuters - A protected colony of rare fruit bats
in Cyprus has almost been wiped out by unidentified gunmen
using them for target practice, conservation groups and
authorities said Thursday.

Reuters - Thousands of Belgian parents camped in
cold, wet weather Thursday to enroll their children in
French-speaking schools under a new first-come, first-served
registration system.

Reuters - Thousands of Belgian parents camped in
cold, wet weather on Thursday to enrol their children in
French-speaking schools under a new first-come, first-served
registration system.

Reuters - A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27
hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity
during an annual fund-raising campaign.

Reuters - A passenger was forced off a Ryanair
flight from Rome to Milan because she refused to move her
metre-long plush crocodile which was blocking an emergency
exit, airport sources said Wednesday.