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Reuters - French customs officials have intercepted
a shipment of 224,000 fake Viagra and Cialis anti-impotence
pills worth 2.4 million euros ($3.5 million), the Budget
Ministry said Monday.

Reuters - Organizers of Australia’s biggest
hot-rod car festival on Monday pledged to review security after
a drunken mob of hundreds of men surrounded women and demanded
they flash their breasts during an angry rampage.

Reuters - Once smoker-friendly Japan got less
sympathetic to tobacco lovers on Monday when a ban on lighting
up in Tokyo taxis went into effect, part of a nationwide trend.

Reuters - Illegal betting syndicates in a
northern Malaysian state have refused bets on the number of the
hotel room where an ex-government minister was allegedly filmed
having sex, the New Straits Times said on Monday.

Reuters - New-born babies in Japan who can’t make
it round to visit all their relatives can now send them proxies
instead - cuddly bags of rice.

Reuters - The United States, concerned about
tainted imports from China, has exported its own batch of
potentially harmful goods to Beijing in the form of mice on a
flight from Washington, state media said on Tuesday.

AP - Police said they arrested a man who acknowledged digging holes on a park bike trail as payback for nearly being run down by a cyclist.

AP - The chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners visited a 114-year-old woman who registered to vote on Thursday. It was also her birthday, according to her family, who cite a family Bible as evidence of her birth date.

AP - An 85-year-old motorist lost his license and his Oldsmobile for a week and likely faces a hefty fine after becoming the oldest person snagged to date by a new Ontario law aimed at cracking down on street racers, even though he was just speeding.

AP - The holidays were sad enough for Kim Velevis and her husband after their lovable pug “Scooter” dug its way out of the backyard and disappeared on Christmas Eve. But the real blow came with the new year: A letter from an anonymous woman who had found the friendly dog and gave it to […]