German police seize teens’ motorized office chair (AP)

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AP - German police have confiscated what may be the world’s fastest office chair. Police say officers happened on the contraption — the work of two inventive 17-year-olds — in the western town of Gross-Zimmern on Saturday.

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Fencers upset as footballers fly first class (Reuters)

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Reuters - Italy’s successful women’s fencing team
were angered at the weekend when they flew back from Beijing in
economy while the nation’s under-achieving Olympic football
players were stretching out in first class.

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Bosnian divide keeps criminals waiting for jail (Reuters)

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Reuters - Bosnia’s failure to establish a
coherent system of government more than a decade after its
ethnic war has had some strange consequences — among them a
dire lack of prison space for Sarajevo’s small-time criminals.

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Confused sea turtles march into restaurant (Reuters)

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Reuters - About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost
their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched
into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said
on Monday.

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Ky. sheriff picks up wrong man in Calif. (AP)

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AP - A Kentucky sheriff drove 4,100 miles to California to pick up a fugitive, then realized when he got back he had the wrong guy.

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Britain’s only matador back in ring after surgery (Reuters)

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Reuters - A
grandfather in his 60s made his comeback as Britain’s only
matador at a bullfight in Spain on Sunday, less than a year
after a quadruple heart bypass and a knee replacement.

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Mayor Recruits ‘Ugly Duckling’ Women

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No sandcastles please, you’re in Italy (Reuters)

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Reuters - When in Capri, don’t wander off the beach
in a bikini. If you go to the sea in Eraclea, near Venice,
remember that building sandcastles is forbidden. And don’t even
think about mowing your lawn at the weekend in Forte dei Marmi.

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Cupcake makers at war over dot-in-circle trademark (Reuters)

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Reuters - Sprinkles Cupcakes, a California
purveyor of mini-cakes beloved by Hollywood stars, has accused
rival Famous Cupcakes of stealing its trademarked “Modern Dot”
cupcake design to lure away clientele.

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Indian state government encourages people to eat rats (Reuters)

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Reuters - A state government in eastern
Indian is encouraging people to eat rats in an effort to battle
soaring food prices and save grain stocks.

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