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		<title>Police search for NYC parachutists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Security videotape shows two daredevils dressed in black floating in parachutes from a height of about 40 stories before landing on a street near the World Trade Center and disappearing into the night, police said Monday. Investigators were studying that video and other footage to try to identify the parachutists and determine which high-rise they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student eating way through college</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. university student is eating his way through school &#8212; competitively. Computer engineering student Eric Dahl now ranks third in the world of competitive eating as determined by All Pro Eating rankings. Dahl has earned more than &#36;18,000 in prize money or merchandise to help pay for his education. &#8220;I&#8217;m eating for my education,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The violent, thuggish world of the young Bach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dalya Alberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johann Sebastian Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, with the &#8220;St. Matthew Passion&#8221; and the &#8220;Mass in B Minor&#8221; among the most sublime masterpieces in classical music. But biographers over the past half century have &#8220;sanitised&#8221; his life, in the belief that only a saintly man could have written such heavenly music, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Byron to Russell Brand: timeless appeal of the bad boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the singer Katy Perry spoke recently about her relationship with British comedian Russell Brand, not so long after their whirlwind courtship and immediately after their whirlwind divorce, she refrained from putting the boot in, despite Brand having ended the short marriage by text. Her interviewer, from Elle magazine, suggested she might be attracted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Northampton Clown&#8217; terrorizes English town</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious clown dressed like the malevolent character from the Stephen King novel &#8220;It&#8221; has been terrifying residents with random appearances in the English town of Northampton. The true identity of the &#8220;Northampton Clown,&#8221; who wears a white mask with red hair like the character Pennywise in King&#8217;s 1986 book and holds balloons, remains a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briton becomes first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 28-year-old British adventurer has become the first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska, arriving late Monday at a small town in the Aleutian Islands after 150 days at sea. &#8220;I have had some of the most intense and memorable months of my life out on the Pacific, it has been brilliant and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Village in stink over name change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposed name change is raising a stink in one Welsh village. Welsh-language campaigners say Varteg should be rebranded with a more authentic Welsh spelling &#8212; Y Farteg. The Welsh language has no letter v, though the sound is made by the letter f. Varteg is an anglicization of the original Welsh name. Some residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle sued over hefty strip club debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A San Francisco strip club is suing business software maker Oracle Corp. over an unpaid bill of more than $30,000 that was allegedly racked up on a company credit card. The New Century Theater says a man charged the amount to an Oracle credit card on two separate occasions just days apart last year. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commandments toppled near court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stone monument of the Ten Commandments that sits on a street behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington and was the subject of controversy in the past has been toppled by vandals. The granite monument sits in front of the headquarters of Faith and Action, a Christian outreach ministry. The group&#8217;s leader said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sisters reunited in New York after 73 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three sisters have been reunited in western New York some 73 years after their mother abandoned the older two and disappeared with the youngest one. The Daily News of Batavia reported Saturday that the three &#8212; 80-year-old Joan Billings, 78-year-old Shirley Mortellaro and 77-year-old Mary Kidwell &#8212; were reunited this month after decades of searching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog lover Elizabeth pours gravy for corgis&#8217; daily meal, new book says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth II is so fond of her corgis that she personally supervises their daily meal and pours the gravy for them herself, according to a new book on British royal pets since the 16th century. &#8220;Pets by Royal Appointment,&#8221; by Brian Hoey, who has written about Buckingham Palace for more than 40 years, suggests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru lawmaker wants barbecued kitties off menu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Peruvian lawmaker has joined animal rights activists to try to halt the consumption of barbecued cat at an annual festival. The activists say at least 100 cats will be eaten at this weekend&#8217;s Santa Efigenia religious festival in the town of La Quebrada, south of Lima. Rep. Juan Urquiza joined activists this year to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Y. animal officer sold illegal snakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An animal-control officer had hundreds of snakes, including a pair of 2-meter Burmese pythons, at his home, from which he ran an illegal side business selling them, authorities said Thursday. Some 850 snakes worth $500,000 were found in a detached garage at the Shirley home of Richard Parrinello, including the potentially lethal Burmese pythons, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks says guns &#8216;unwelcome&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks says guns are no longer welcome in its cafes, though it is stopping short of an outright ban on firearms. The fine line that the retailer is walking to address the concerns of both gun-rights and gun-control advocates reflects how heated the issue has become in America. Most U.S. states allow people to openly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Messiah gets to keep his name</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman will be allowed to name her 8-month-old son Messiah, a judge ruled Wednesday, overturning an order from another judge who said the boy&#8217;s name should be changed to Martin because &#8221; &#8216;messiah&#8217; is a title that is held only by Jesus Christ.&#8221; Jaleesa Martin said she couldn&#8217;t believe it when child support magistrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris to get first  &#8216;cat cafe&#8217; in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8217;s first &#8220;cat cafe&#8221; is set to open in Paris on Saturday, with a troupe of nine rescue cats ready and waiting to be made a fuss of by cat-loving customers. Already popular in Tokyo, where there are dozens, cat cafes allow customers who cannot have a pet at home to enjoy a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman with 35-letter name wins driver&#8217;s license battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Hawaiian woman with a 35-letter surname has persuaded state authorities to change their official ID card format because her king-size name will not fit. Janice Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele, whose traditional Hawaiian name comes from her late husband, said she would never consider using a shortened version, and so used local media to press officials to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blobfish honored as ugliest animal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blobfish, a denizen of the Pacific that looks like a bald, grumpy old man, has been named the world&#8217;s ugliest animal, organizers of the offbeat competition said Thursday. More than 3,000 people contributed to an online poll aimed at raising awareness of unsightly species that play an important role in the ecological web. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pig-squeal deafness compensated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A French court Wednesday ordered a piggery to compensate a former worker who became deaf partly as a result of the incessant squeals of the animals in his charge. A court in the western town of Lons-le-Saunier in the Jura region ruled that the Pelizzari group had committed an &#8220;inexcusable error&#8221; by failing to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volleyball as you&#8217;ve never seen it: Chinese &#8217;9-man&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Chang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 15-year-old daughter had a warning for me. &#8220;You know, Mom,&#8221; she said, &#8220;you&#8217;ll probably be the only white person there.&#8221; It was July 2012, and we were headed to our first &#8220;Chinese volleyball&#8221; tournament, in New York City. I didn&#8217;t know what to expect. In fact, I wasn&#8217;t sure we should be going at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirtiest job in Mexico: sewer diving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carola Sole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep below the streets of Mexico City, Julio Cesar Cu is hard at work swimming in dark sewer waters in a diving helmet and dry suit, surrounded by rats, feces and condoms. It&#8217;s a dirty job, but someone&#8217;s got to do it. For the past 30 years, the 53-year-old has plunged below the grimy surface [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prince Andrew stopped in palace stroll after break-in</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Prince Andrew said Sunday he had received an apology from police after jittery royal protection officers challenged him in the gardens of Buckingham Palace as they stepped up security following a break-in. Police confirmed that two armed officers approached the Duke of York, the third child of Queen Elizabeth II, as he took an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mohammed tops Milan owner names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most popular name for small-business owners in Milan is now Mohammed, taking the first place over traditional Italian names for the first time, according to a study published on Wednesday. The study by the Chamber of Commerce of Italy&#8217;s commercial capital found 1,595 Mohammeds in the list of companies for 2012, compared to 1,383 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London &#8216;fryscraper&#8217; glare melts cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A British property developer said Tuesday it was investigating after sun rays reflected from its half-finished London skyscraper melted parts of several cars, including a luxury Jaguar. Londoners have been shielding their eyes from the blinding glare bouncing off 20 Fenchurch St. &#8212; nicknamed the &#8220;Walkie Talkie&#8221; because of its flared shape &#8212; while several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home sweet boat: enjoying views, commutes, camaraderie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maggie Fazeli Fard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The view from David Murray&#8217;s home in Washington, D.C., is among the best in the city, a panorama of the Washington Channel bookended by the army&#8217;s Fort McNair and the Washington Monument. &#8220;What more could I ask for?&#8221; asks Murray, surveying his surroundings as his shirt flutters in a breeze city dwellers would envy. Murray, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Petersburg cops seize Putin-in-lingerie art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian police said Wednesday they had raided an exhibition and confiscated a painting that portrayed President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lounging together in women&#8217;s lingerie. Police said they confiscated four paintings by artist Konstantin Altunin and closed down the exhibition of his work in St. Petersburg, which is set to host world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half South Sudan cops may be fake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A probe into policing in the troubled new nation of South Sudan has uncovered 11,000 fake names on the payroll, the interior minister said Tuesday, offering some explanation for rising crime. Worse still, Aleu Ayeny Aleu told reporters, a further 16,000 names were being investigated, meaning half the force on the payroll may be fictitious. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wet noses to the touchscreen, iPads go to the dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Macpherson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but you can certainly try to get Fido to use an iPad. New York dog-trainer Anna Jane Grossman has done just that, with success &#8212; although a lack of apps limits the possibilities. &#8220;It&#8217;s a novelty. It&#8217;s just sort of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globe made of ostrich eggs may be oldest to show New World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs. The globe, about the size of a grapefruit, is labeled in Latin and includes what were considered exotic territories such as Japan, Brazil and Arabia. North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retailer backtracks on bull penis snack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swiss supermarket giant Migros has backtracked on a decision to stick a no-nonsense &#8220;bull&#8217;s penis&#8221; label on a brand of dog chews, it said Tuesday. While the dog snack is made from bull penises, it was previously tagged with a fig-leaf label identifying the product as &#8220;bull nerves.&#8221; Migros spokeswoman Martina Bosshard said the retailer [...]]]></description>
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