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AP - A Montana man was arrested in Oregon’s Klamath County after a state trooper found nearly two pounds of marijuana wrapped as a Christmas present in the man’s car.

Reuters - Thieves crept into a German church
during a service, stole a 300-year-old Bible worth up to 5,000
euros ($7,366) and emptied a collection box, police in Berlin
said on Wednesday.

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.

Reuters - Shoppers will be able to buy Tube
tickets and newspapers with a wave of their mobile phone rather
than cash during a trial starting in London Wednesday.

Reuters - A rooster crowing at the break of dawn has
earned his owner a 200 euro ($295) fine in an Italian court
after neighbors complained it was waking them up too early.

Reuters - A rooster crowing at the break of dawn has
earned his owner a 200 euro (142 pounds) fine in an Italian
court after neighbours complained it was waking them up too
early.

Reuters - Britain’s toad population could face
extinction in some areas within 10 years due to an infectious
fungal disease, scientists said on Wednesday.

Reuters - The French government is selling a
13th-century prison in Avignon to be turned into a luxury hotel
as part of an effort to bring fresh cash into state coffers.

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.