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AP - A model who says she has worked hard to maintain a wholesome image has filed a $5 million lawsuit complaining that a jewelry company’s video advertisement in which she writhes and moans looks pornographic.

AP - A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they’re hearty eaters. A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.

Reuters - A jumps race at Tramore in south-east
Ireland on Monday ended in farce with nine of the jockeys
banned for five days.

Reuters - A “surge” of overused words and phrases
formed a “perfect storm” of “post-9/11″ cliches in 2007,
according to a U.S. university’s annual list of words and
phrases that deserve to be banned.

Reuters - Three middle-aged men plunged into 2008
with a New Year’s Day dive into Rome’s chilly Tiber River on
Tuesday.

Reuters - The head of the Portuguese agency
responsible for enforcing a new ban on smoking in public was
seen lighting up at a New Year party, breaking the law on the
first day it came into effect.

Reuters - Japan’s top women wrestlers celebrated
the start of the 2008 Olympic year by plunging into the icy
depths of Tokyo Bay in an extreme training exercise.

Reuters - Priests offering New Year’s prophecies
from Cuba’s Afro-Cuban religion on Wednesday gave few hints on
the future of convalescing leader Fidel Castro and instead
warned about dangerous climate change and epidemics.

AP - A 12-year-old Connecticut boy may be the new Florida state record holder for catching the heaviest bull shark. Aidan Murray Medley had a spent a half day at sea Tuesday when he reeled in the 551-pound bull shark just north of the Palm Beach Inlet.

AP - Everyone’s heard of a bicycle built for two, but how about a two-person snowboard? Butch Brady built one and recently teamed up with another snowboarder, Eric Sweet, to make some two-man turns down the Teewinot run at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.