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Historic US town of two goes on auction block

A historic American town with a population of two people will be auctioned off on August 15, the auctioneers Williams & Williams said on Thursday.

The northwestern town of Garryowen, Montana, little

Drunk man falls asleep on baggage belt at Italian airport

A drunk Norwegian tourist raised a security alarm at an Italian airport after he fell asleep on a baggage belt and travelled 160 feet before being spotted by an X-ray scanner.

Rome's Fiumicino airpo

For the Guinness record, 136 keyboards play in unison

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The youngest is only six and the oldest, 17 , but these children have already won worldwide recognition.

They are on a team of 136 young keyboard artistes of the School of Music, Thrissur which r

Boy, 17, crowned America's fastest texter

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A 17-year-old boy retained his title as America's fastest texter on Wednesday in a duel of the thumbs staged before yelling fans in New York's Times Square.

Austin Weirschke took home $50,000 in priz

Israeli man makes bicycle of cardboard

An Israeli inventor, who heard about someone who'd built a canoe out of cardboard, immediately started thinking of other uses for the cheap, eco-friendly and surprisingly durable material and wanted t

Vietnam airline fined for inflight bikini show

A Vietnamese airline has been fined for hosting a mid-flight dance by bikini-clad beauty pageant contestants without first gaining permission, state media said on Thursday.

Low-cost carrier VietJet A

Camera lost for 3 years found in NY creek

A camera lost in a creek in New York's Adirondacks for three years is being returned thanks to clever detective work by a Vermont man who studied pictures on its memory card.

John Noerr of Poultney,

Fire alarm blares 15 hours at US public housing

A fire alarm that blared for more than 15 hours at a Pittsburgh-area public housing complex has finally been shut off.

Residents of Glenshaw Gardens in Wilkinsburg say the alarm's strobe lights began

$50K bail for US man accused of crushing cop cars

A Vermont man who authorities said used a large farm tractor like a monster truck and drove over seven police vehicles, then tried to run over two officers who pursued him, was ordered held on $50,000

NY police save baby deer from 20-foot-deep manhole

Police on New York's Long Island spent over four hours rescuing a baby deer that fell into a 20-foot-deep manhole.

The cute, speckled creature scampered into the woods after it was released on Thursd

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.