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Taiwan grandpa catches 'em all playing 'Pokemon Go' on 15 phones
Chen San-yuan turns heads as he cycles through a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan's capital. The reason why? Attached to the front of his bicycle are 15 mobile phones which Chen, 70, uses to simultaneously play the augmented-reality game "Pokemon Go." The smartphone-based game requires players to "catch" ...
Fantasy painting of Trump with ex-Republican presidents mocked online
It could be any Republican president's fantasy: hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades, and even centuries past. For U.S. President Donald Trump, that fictional "happy hour" exists, in the form of a painting hanging at the White House ...
Girl, 8, dubbed 'Queen of Sweden' after drawing ancient pre-Viking-era sword from lake
Her name conjures up Old Nordic tales about heroic accomplishments — and that is exactly what Saga this summer did when she stumbled on a pre-Viking-era sword in a lake in southern Sweden. Saga Vanecek, 8, was helping her father with his boat in Lake ...
Hitler runs for mayor despite threat from Lennin in Peruvian Andes
Hitler hopes to return to power in a small Peruvian town in the Andes, despite a threat from a detractor named Lennin. Campaign slogans reading, "Hitler returns" and "Hitler with the people" have appeared around the highland town of Yungar, where Hitler Alba is seeking ...
South Korea students gain weight 'to dodge military service'
Twelve inventive South Korean college students deliberately made themselves overweight to dodge mandatory military service, a branch of the armed forces in Seoul has said. The students — all classical music majors at the same university in the capital — took protein powder and drank ...
It's a bird... it's a train... China pigeon racers cause flap with rail ruse
Two Chinese pigeon racers took cheating to an extreme when they hid their birds in milk cartons and hopped on a bullet train. Their homing pigeons scooped the first four places in the race and total prize money of more than 1 million yuan ($150,000). But ...
Ancient elixir, skeletal soup — or something less insidious — thousands of people have signed an online petition to "let people drink" a reddish liquid discovered in a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus unearthed in Egypt. The tongue-in-cheek petition, started late last week and entitled "let people drink ...
Leaving on a jet-suit? London store offers chance to hover like 'Iron Man'
Ever fancied a dab at being "Iron Man"? Now you can. A jet-suit created by a British former commodities trader has gone on sale in a London department store with a cool price tag of £340,000 ($446,522). Made up of five miniature jet engines mounted ...
Zsa Zsa's 15 minutes in the limelight are over: The copiously drooling English bulldog — named the World's Ugliest Dog just weeks ago — has died. The 9-year-old canine died in her sleep Tuesday morning, owner Megan Brainard of Anoka, Minnesota told U.S. media. "I'm in ...
The pungent smell of the rotten durian fruit at an Australian university library has been mistaken for a gas leak, prompting an evacuation of the building. Specialist crews wearing masks searched the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology university campus library Saturday, but all they found ...
Tokyo elementary school welcomes students in controversial Armani uniforms
A public elementary school in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district has welcomed new students amid a lingering controversy over its pricey Armani uniforms. On Friday, all 56 first-graders — except one absentee — wore the Armani outfits proposed by Taimei Elementary School. While not formally required, the ...
