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Reuters - A Hummer owner in Russia’s second city
St. Petersburg has given antiglobalists the green light to pelt
his oversized vehicle with rotten eggs, Russian news agencies
reported on Wednesday.

AP - Thieves ruined Christmas for one woman this year by stealing the pair of 6-foot-tall nutcracker statues from in front of her house.

AP - Even in death, Chet Fitch is a card. Fitch, known for his sense of humor, died in October at age 88 but gave his friends and family a start recently: Christmas cards, 34 of them, began arriving — written in his hand with a return address of “Heaven.”

Reuters - A Chinese villager has been jailed for
10 years for keeping 80,000 yuan (5,600 pounds) in cash he
found in a plastic bag at the scene of a car accident, local
media reported on Tuesday.

Reuters - A Malaysian referee took out his
gun and fired warning shots in the air after a local soccer
match turned unruly following the suspension of a player, a
newspaper said on Tuesday.

AP - Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.

Reuters - Former Argentine soccer great
Diego Maradona says he wants to meet Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, a leading U.S. foe, local media reported on
Monday.

Reuters - Shoppers got a Christmas Eve surprise
on Monday when a pair of brothers handed out $100 (50 pound)
bills at a mall on Long Island, New York.

Reuters - The driver of a minivan who interrupted
a local TV newscast while it was on the air by crashing into
the station’s glass-walled studio, was charged on Monday with
reckless driving, authorities said.

AP - Paul Smokov doesn’t need radar or other high-tech equipment to forecast a major snowstorm on the prairie. He consults pig spleens.