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AP - Missing: one parrot with Brooklyn accent. Reward: $10,000.

Reuters - Nothing, not even an attempted coup, was
going to stop this wedding.

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.

AP - A new service promises Londoners they’ll never have to spend much time looking for the loo. Westminster City Council, which covers London’s bustling Oxford Street, the West End, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, on Thursday launched “SatLav” — a toilet-finding service for cell phone users.

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

AP - Cash fluttering in the breeze might have seemed like a gift from heaven, but anyone in this western Massachusetts town who grabbed some of it is being asked to please give it back.

Reuters - He might be second favourite to win South
Korea’s presidential election next month, but as “human scum”
and “sycophantic traitor” Lee Hoi-chang is topping the list of
hate figures in North Korean state media.

AP - The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He’s a convicted bank robber who isn’t supposed to gamble. Timothy Elliott faces a Dec. 7 court hearing over whether he violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the $800 Million Spectacular game at […]

AP - Taking holiday decorations from a man named Clouse might get you on the “naughty” list. A Missoula man is charged with felony burglary after Christmas trees and wreath-making supplies were stolen from the Montana Wreaths & Pink Grizzly Christmas Store and found outside the suspect’s house several blocks away.

AP - Workers on a courthouse renovation project have made an eerie discovery in the basement, the headstone of a man who died in 1874.