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<title>Austria's singing monks hail miracle debut album</title>
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<description>HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria (Reuters) - Monks in Austria hailed a "miracle" on Friday as they released an album of Gregorian chants under the same record label as Amy Winehouse and Eminem.</description>
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<title>Oh deer! Man cops wrath of amorous stag</title>
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<description>SYDNEY, May 16 (Reuters Life!) - An Australian man was gored in the thigh on Friday by an amorous stag after entering a deer paddock in the middle of the breeding season.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:18:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Game of cat and mouse blacks out Albania's capital</title>
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<description>TIRANA (Reuters) - A cat chasing a mouse in Tirana's main power station caused a 72-hour blackout across parts of the Albanian capital, the electricity company said on Friday.</description>
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<title>Dutch may need to check prostitute's licence</title>
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<description>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Clients of prostitutes in the Netherlands may soon need to check for a sex licence.</description>
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<title>Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ</title>
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<description>HUSAVIK, Iceland (Reuters) - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:04:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Canadian pierces lover's heart in botched sex game</title>
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<description>OTTAWA, May 15 (Reuters Life!) - A Canadian man who asked his lover to carve a heart-shaped symbol on his chest during a rough sex game almost died when she accidentally pressed too hard and punctured his heart, a newspaper said on Thursday.</description>
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<title>Green aliens and UFOs said to visit UK</title>
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<description>LONDON (Reuters) - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:58:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>"Snake man" slithers out of Austrian prison cell</title>
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<description>VIENNA (Reuters) - A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 12:28:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK</title>
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<description>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans.</description>
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<title>Wedding day fireworks land Ethiopian groom in jail</title>
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<description>ADDIS ABABA, May 14 (Reuters Life!) - Bridegroom Kedir Mohamed wanted his wedding day to go with a bang and decided to celebrate by letting off firecrackers after the ceremony.</description>
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