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A Malaysian state reportedly plans to recruit "spies" to snoop on unmarried lovers and report them to Islamic religious authorities.
The Terengganu state government plans to enlist the part-time spies to look out for un-Islamic behaviour, such as unmarried couples kissing or holding hands.
Head of the state government’s Islamic and welfare committee, Rosol Wahid, was quoted as saying: "Some of these ’spies’ could be waitresses or even janitors at hotels acting as auxiliary undercover agents for our religious department.
"Accurate details are required for the enforcement officers to act, otherwise they could be pouncing on married couples."

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A US student from St Petersburg hasn’t been able to stop hiccupping for more than three weeks.
Jennifer Mee, 15, has been hiccupping almost 50 times a minute since January 23, with doctors being unable to stop it.
The teen has had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI.
She has been told to hold her breath, sip pickle juice, put sugar under her tongue, breathe into a paper bag and drink from the wrong side of the glass, with no success.
However, the hiccups do stop when she is sleeping.
Jennifer’s mother, Rachel Robidoux, has begged someone to come forward and help them.
She said: "I’m just looking for some answers where somebody’s gone through this. At this point, we’re willing to do anything."

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A US high school student gave several of his peers and teachers brownies laced with laxatives.
Collin Wayne Orth, from Minnesota, carried out the prank on February 6, causing several school employees and students stomach cramps, diarrhoea and bloody stools.
The 18-year-old now faces two felony charges - adulteration resulting in bodily harm and adulteration not resulting in bodily harm. The first carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine while the second holds a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Orth will appear in Mower County Court on March 19.

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Police in Israel discovered a couple having sex inside a car on the motorway.
Their vehicle was blocking traffic in the fast lane of a major road, with other drivers being forced to swerve to avoid the stationery cars queuing behind them.
It has been reported that the couple were overcome by passion and failed to pull over before getting intimate.
A patrolman gave the woman a ticket for holding up traffic.

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Malaysian officials are offering new motorbikes to gangs of illegal street racers who catch thieves.
Illegal racing and bag-snatch robberies, where motorcycle thieves snatch women’s handbags as they ride past, often dragging them and killing them, are common on Malaysian streets.
The United Malays National Organisation party hope to encourage illegal racers, usually jobless or lowly paid youths, to give up racing and join the party.
Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, head of the party, said: "Once they catch at least 30 snatch thieves, we will reward them with a motorcycle each as an incentive.
"Instead of wasting their time, they might as well help police combat crime."

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A cash-strapped Hungarian village is offering the chance of immortality to anyone willing to pay to have a street named after them.
The north-eastern village of Ivad is hoping their offer will attract celebrities, and is charging around 100,000 forints (£267) per metre to name its eight streets, and promise the name will not be altered for 300 years.
Mayor Gabor Ivady said: "If, for example Barbra Streisand, whom I like a lot, has no street named after her, she may decide to have one in our village." Unfortunately, people keen to visit their street will discover that Hungarian law dictates roads cannot be named after the living.
They must instead rely on a contract guaranteeing the name change will take place posthumously.

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A University of Southern California hockey player dropped his pants and mooned the crowd at a game last weekend.
Goalie Mickey Meyer is said to have "ridden his stick like a horse" before dropping his trousers, showing his rear and slapping his buttocks, during the match against Brigham Young University.
North Park Officer Mike Stauffer witnessed the act and removed Meyer from the game, arresting him for lewd behaviour.
Ice Rink manager Floyd Naegle said: "We don’t treat this as a funny incident. We’re a family oriented business. It’s a one-time incident and we try to do what we can to protect ourselves." Meyer could face six months in jail.

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A US couple plan to get married in a graveyard.
Scott Amsler, 27, and Miranda Patterson, 21, will tie the knot among the dearly departed in St Louis suburb’s city cemetery in September.
Amsler, a computer expert for a financial company and part-time rehabber of old hearses, thinks it a fitting idea.
He said: "People are going to think how they want. I don’t actively try to convince people that my interests are normal or logical.
"I’m not a freak or Satan worshipper or cult member. It just goes with our theme." Amsler proposed to Patterson by affixing a plate saying "Will you marry me?" to his hearse - called Edgar - in June 2006.
They are awaiting a decision on the wedding by the cemetery committee.

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An Australian man has broken the world record for smashing watermelons with his head.
John Allwood, 29, head-butted 40 of the large fruits at the biennial Chinchilla Watermelon Festival in Queensland to claim the title of world champion.
Chinchilla, three hours west of Queensland’s capital, Brisbane, is Australia’s watermelon capital, growing 25 per cent of the country’s crop.
They celebrate by holding a Watermelon Festival every two years.
As well as watermelon smashing, there is also watermelon skiing, watermelon sliding and a largest watermelon contest.

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A plan to use human hair to lift an elephant off the ground has been halted by animal rights protesters in Taiwan.
The National Science and Technology Museum and Wan-Pi World spent nearly £4,000 on braiding 1.6 million human hairs into a rope strong enough to lift eight tonnes.
It was to be used to lift an Asian elephant from a local zoo onto a platform.
But following complaints from animal rights activists, the zoo decided to use rocks and timber of an equal weight instead.
Director of the museum, Wang Chun-Fa, said the experiment, at an amusement park in Tainan County, was "very creative".

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A Chinese man claims his dogs are addicted to instant noodles and go on hunger strike when they refused them.
Wang Haiying, of Nanjing city, said: "My daughter-in-law’s company gives out two big boxes of ‘Yummy’ instant noodles each month, and none of us like to eat them, so we feed them to the dogs.
"Any meal, if I don’t feed them instant noodles, they bark at me and stage a hunger strike." However, the pooch’s unhealthy diet is piling on the pounds and they need regular exercise to burn off the calories.
Haiyang added: "Now I am taking them out running for a couple of hours a day, and also trying to make them stop eating this junk food."

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A German man returned from a short holiday to find his apartment had been broken into and fully refurbished.
Gunther Hagler, 45, called the police after arriving home to find his flat in Frankfurt had been cleaned, redecorated, and had new furniture, including a new fridge.
But nothing - not even the food from the old fridge - had been taken.
The mystery was solved when police spoke to Hagler’s landlord, who had ordered the flat next door to be renovated but had given workmen the wrong key.

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Swiss farmers have been asked to stop feeding their cows cannabis.
Several recent adverts have promoted the use of hemp in farm animal feed despite it being made illegal in 2005.
Farmers believe the cheap and easy to grow plant is good for their cows, because its active ingredient THC makes the cows happy and helps them to produce more milk.
However, the Agriculture Ministry claim THC poses a health risk to humans and warned that farmers caught using the drug will be prosecuted.

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A US spa has introduced a ‘BlackBerry Thumb’ massage for mobile phone addicts.
New York spa Graceful Services offers a one-hour session for $60, treating people who have strained their finger muscles sending text messages, emails or talking on the phone.
Spa owner Grace Gao Macnow said: "We concentrate on the muscles related to the fingers, like back muscles, neck muscles and arms." Hotel chain Hyatt offers a similar therapy at a cost of $80 for 30 minutes.
It has also proposed introducing ten minute sessions for people taking breaks during business conferences held at their hotels.
Last year, the American Physical Therapy Association began the recognition of ‘BlackBerry Thumb’ as an official work-related illness caused by over-use of any handheld electronic device.

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A Paraguayan woman whose husband left her pretended he had been eaten by a snake.
Maria Estela Lima, a housewife from Puerto Piasco, called a local radio station to tell the sad tale of how her husband had been devoured by a boa constrictor.
She said a 10-metre-long serpant had snatched her husband from a boat and wrapped him up before swallowing him whole.
She said two men killed the boa in order to recover her husband’s body and appealed for help from the community to maintain her three young children.
The story made national headlines, but her husband was eventually found by reporters, alive and well and working on a ranch.
Mrs Lima said she invented the sob story because she felt abandoned.

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An Australian festival has launched a search for the best backside in the country.
The Julia Creek Dirt and Dust Festival began its "best butt" competition in Mount Isa and will also search Brisbane for attractive bottoms during Outback Week this week.
Organiser Margie Ryder: "We’re looking for firmness, voluptuousness, beautiful, just ‘out there’ butts I suppose.
"I think everyone has their own tastes and it’s not about just having a butt. I believe the winner will be someone from the outback because they’re pretty firm, you don’t see too many funny ones out there." The competition is hoped to promote the Dirt and Dust Festival, which is the town’s biggest annual tourist event.

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A US woman has created a 12-step programme to treat people addicted to email.
Executive coach Marsha Egan, from Pennsylvania, believes many US workers are addicted to emailing, and the time they devote to it is costing their employers.
She said: "There is a crisis in corporate America, but a lot of CEOs don’t know it. They haven’t figured out how expensive it is." One of Ms Egan’s clients cannot walk by any computer without checking her email.
Some only go on holiday to places they know they can check their email.
Others send themselves emails if their inbox remains empty for more than a few minutes.
The first step is to "admit email is managing you. Let go of your need to check email every ten minutes." Ms Egan is planning a monthly teleconference for "emailers anonymous."

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A South Korean bank is sending its single female employees on dates in the hope that romance will make them happier at work.
Hanna Bank is using a top matchmaking agency to find blind dates to accompany 20 women workers aged between 29 and 33 on a trip to North Korea.
Employee welfare official Yang Jae-hyeok said: "This trip will offer them a chance to easily meet men.
"As our bank tries to help our employees balance their work and personal lives, we are putting more effort into improving their personal life." The bank will fund half the cost of a two-day trip to a popular mountain resort.
Hana set up the "full life service" for employees two years ago, which includes subsidising workers who join dating services.

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