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June 1998
- Mexican fighting-priest quits wrestling ring
- Amorous couple shock passengers in sky-high antics
- N.Y. woman sues lover, says Viagra came between them
- HK family in hospital after trying to revive dog
- Lions eat suspected immigrant in S.African park
- Ginger Spice sings on in Thailand's "Spice Gays"
- Women rugby players in sin bin over brothel money
- Thousands swallow live fish "wonder cure" in India
- And the bride is ...
- Bangladesh fans attack power stations
- Staid Swiss reject "The Kiss"
- England to win World Cup for "scientific" reasons: Turkish critic
July 1998
- Japan network mauled over tiger-meat gourmet show
- Mexico reopens strip club, under federal management
- Poles ski on "diplomatic" snow at Warsaw fete
- China protesters storm cafeteria, devour food
- U.S. woman finds formula for happy marriage
- Dancer's breasts did not hurt Florida man
- "Real" Santa Claus to miss world congress again
- Calif. activists raise stink for "skunk safe" yogurt
- Aspiring Paris policeman takes wrong career turn
- German barbecue ad evokes Holocaust memories
- Whole in one...
- Thai men in tongue line-up after attempted rape
- Singapore toilet campaign awash with success
- Taleban raid shops with TVs and video players
- Caviar and cocktail sauce is another man's pureed liver
- Spinning ceiling fan kills Nigerian baby
- Bardot calls on Austria to stop "art killing"
- African used "black magic" to get bank's money
August 1998
- Japan sweet firms look to modern Samurai
- N.C. man charged in "cannibal corn" blackmail scheme
- When wife's away Italian men won't play...they say
- Calif. man hangs himself after Stevie Nicks concert
- Crackdown on near-naked Australian outback barmaids
- Stand clear of the doors, please...
- Greek groom in wedding gown frays bride's nerves
- Pipeline to oblivion
- Hey, hey, it's the Monk-ees...
- Singapore toilets scrub up for title fight
- Tamagotchi inventor to produce vibrating musical lollipops
- And you look sweet...on a bulldozer made for two
- The long...er, limb of the law
- U.S. sex scandal used to sell Israeli detergent
- Scandal boosts sales of smutty Clinton dolls
September 1998
- "Enfant terrible" tells it with underpants
- China trains chicken army to attack locusts
- Spanish town sees red in massive tomato fight
- HK woman had sex with gigolo to lift bad luck
- Yes, size DOES matter...
- Disney ends Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in Florida
- An early contender for Most Viable Insanity Plea of 1998
- Potato chips seasoned with cocaine in Mexico
- Deep inside Bill Clinton...
- Vlad the impaler?
- German pogo anarchists ease vote fatigue
- Words of "God" reach Florida by billboards, buses
- Man charged in Sweden after sex with cows
- Sorry Sony, say Italian software pirates
- Western Canadian fire could be 140 years old
- Ouch!
- Could rabies explain the vampire legend?
- Leaded or bedded?
- Thais take "hands-on" approach to film censorship
- Carrot controversy hits Brazilian soccer
October 1998
- Mexican woman sleeps with dead husband for 8 days
- Bad hair day for Barbie spawns federal lawsuit
- Things you thought happened only in the movies, #1
- What's in a name? Adolf Hittler can tell you...
- Irish mystery parachutes were artistic hoax
- Germans asplutter at naked sushi platter
- Toll mounts in mystery Indonesia murder spree
- German snack bar sold hashish not hamburgers
- Monica Lewinsky spotted on a bus in Kenya
- Six killed while sleeping on Texas railroad track
- Do you take this woman?
- Swedish police chasing robber in chicken suit
- Ice hockey -- Fog halts indoor match
- Jamaican soccer players shoot to kill
- Infamous Japan suicide spot sets dismal record
- Amorous emu fails to get her man
- Baltimore school suspends 15-year-old "witch"
- Things you thought only happened in the movies, #2
- Dane takes dead father on last motorcycle ride
November 1998
- Italy doctor seeks world's first penis transplant
- Chinese doctors craft new penis for child
- Kenyan farmer injured trying to milk elephant
- Lightning kills entire football team
- S.African police probe woman's headless foetus
- Growing old disgracefully...
- Leopard watches TV then dozes off
- Colombian cleric sees too much flesh in church
- China university exorcises Halloween spirits
- Finnish priest rebuked for trying to wake the dead
December 1998
- Giant Haystacks dies of cancer
- Soccer: Sao Paulo bow out to cries of "shock absorbers"
- Dead German found sitting at home, five years on
- Child reports mother for dead baby kept in freezer
- Oklahoma zookeeper loses arm in tapir attack
- Elderly Florida man has scare with alligators
- Stating the bleedin' obvious, 1.0.1
- Absinthe makes U.K. comeback after 80-year absence
- Thief dies after eating chicken, feathers and all
- Houston junks error-ridden youth education guide
- S.Africans take flamethrower aboard to fight crime
- The ultimate Belgian Xmas present -- a grass skirt
- Peruvians find someone who likes airline food
- Chinese women to become designer footballers
- Man bites dog #1: Italian pensioner robs 10-year-old beggar
- Man bites dog #2: Indonesian troops throw Molotovs at students
January 1999
- Trash-talking Santa yanked from Canadian stores
- Women kidnap Josephs from Belgian Christmas cribs
- Singing tree tattles on burglar suspects in U.S.
- Voodoo latrine leads to lost Jamaican mail
- Japanese holiday rice cakes kill three in Tokyo
- Doctors remove 83-pound tumor from Honduran woman
- An early contender for least plausible excuse of 1999
- Miami man seeks one-second cut in jail term
- Laughing is serious business in India's clubs
- Not quite the WHOLE story, I feel #1:
- Not quite the WHOLE story, I feel #2:
February 1999
- Disney's Recall a Half-Hearted Attempt at Saving Face
- Shanghai diners 'hooked' on hot pot
- Ukraine man crashes car as 50 pagers ring at once
- Ohio man severs arm in car crash, drives home
- Scots nationalists get southern English outpost
- Ice hockey match postponed because of snow
- S.African whites told polygamy beats divorce
- Australia's giant "whodunnit" could be exposed
- HK man sues stylist for snipping off part of ear
- California trio guilty of pie crime
- Elvis songs to be recorded in ancient language
- Tintin at 70 remains a controversial innocent
- Korea's giant penises appease virgin
- Fringe Games provide odd Olympic warm-up
- Bunny pet-loving boom has Japan hopping
- Thai tycoon plays cockfight promoter
- Paint-by-number works "deranged" collector's items
- Thrill-seeking Finnish teens dunk tampons in vodka
- Scandal dogs death of Canadian groundhog
- Our animal friends #1: did anybody say, "You're luggage"?
- Our animal friends #2: getting the point
- Porn diva Cicciolina pens hot autobiography
- Canada phone researcher dials "R" for revenge
- San Francisco weighs law to protect fat people
- Soccer: Albanian team give up hunger strike
- Norway mayor wants to sponsor sex-starved bachelors
- And briefly...
March, 1999
- Store devoted to bad taste dies in L.A.
- Singapore man sentenced for stealing smelly shoes
- Finnish police probe X-Files link to triple murder
- Brazilians agog over nude pictures of dominatrix
- France outlaws Mitterrand's favourite meal
- Icelandic woman hit twice by same car in 24 hours
- Wild turkeys terrorize California hikers
- Death certificates prompt Egypt orphanage probe
- Gay drag "nuns" draw Catholic ire in San Francisco
April 1999
- S.Korean fragrant suits prove heaven scent
- Brazil's Playboy boasts all-star lineup
- What's in a name? In Brazil, literally anything
- Drunken tank mine dare kills three in Cambodia
- Romanian footballer and girlfriend found dead in car
- Contempt of court...
- Parrot hunters burned in Florida accident
- Cross-dressers suspected in Calif purse-snatchings
- Dial X for sex in Vienna's brothel-on-wheels
- Israeli motorist ticketed for sex drive
- Car sex could get you three years' jail-Italy court
- Dryer lint proves happy medium for Canadian artist
- Anti-nudity law poses puzzler in Florida
- Egypt clears orphanage accused of organ trade
- BBC embarrassed by pundit mix-up
- Vacuum cleaner saves choking Japanese pensioner
- And finally...
May 1999
- Mad Monks report on cities' souls
- Members only at Iceland phallological museum
- Austin Powers sequel title goes local in Singapore
- 'Diff'rent Strokes' actress dies of apparent overdose
- New Colombian condom to help quick, safe sex
- Flock of mystery balloons puzzles Japan police
- US attorney sues to enter "lawyer-free" community
- Ancient salami puts 200 refugees in hospital
- Chinese baby survives high-speed train fall
- Ex-Marine is Pa. town's "Naked Bandit"
- Police hunt "very ugly woman" for Arizona crimes
- Animals in Trinidad dressed to steal
- Mars Attacks...
- Weekly sex may prevent colds and flu - study
- Taqueria's free lunch bill could come to $5.8 mln
- Las Vegas casino erects Lenin statue, axes head
- KLM apologises for squirrel slaughter
- Honduran gives up drink after bottle found in gut
- And finally...
June 1999
- Speed Before Grace: How to Go 30 KPH On a Pepsi Bottle
- Guyana jungle hides last Jonestown secrets
- Wham, bam, thank you Spam: "miracle meat" turns 62
- "Human Fly" not rattled by jail, plans next stunt
- When the shit hits the fan
- NZ censors struggle to master computer games
- Australian Rules player changes name to Whiskas
- Talking Austin Powers doll angers Georgia mother
- Obedient German robber gives bank teller ID card
- Florida county bars bid to stage naked Macbeth
July 1999
- Historian charts ecstasy of war
- HK enjoys name game for ex-colonial abode
- El Full Monty causes storm in macho Mexico
- German police seek iguana spurned by hotel cashier
- Russian may face jail for strange holiday toast
- Naked corpse found on whale in Florida's SeaWorld
- High-tech toilet fires put Japanese in hot water
- Daredevil Norwegian parachutist dies in accident
- Italy porn diva resumes love affair with politics
- Pork scratchings -- from bar snack to high art
- Robber, alias "Whisky", captures Hungarian hearts
- Sex prevents headaches, German scientist says
August 1999
- Ancient mountain empire offers off-beat travel
- "Cinema Paradiso" in Baltimore's Little Italy
- It's Superman vs. Cashman in Canadian court
- Atlanta killer's letter gives details of slayings
- Wild cats go crazy for Calvin Klein
- Calif. dentist's new tie line is infectious
- It's no act: Oscar winner among US Olympic archery hopefuls
- French mock designer's doomsday eclipse warning
- Last roundup at Nevada's Mustang Ranch brothel
- Brazil city in uproar over phallic beacon statue
- Goalkeeper "drunk at match" banned for two years
- "Identity thief" goofs, impersonates fugitive
- Pet peeve: San Francisco to ban "owning" animals?
- Norwegian man accuses dolphin of attempted rape
- Abide with me as we rob your bank, please
September 1999
- Forget puppies, cuddle a reptile in Japan
- Once a sci-fi dream, Skycar nears reality
- Dark Paris eatery offers taste of blindness
- Coming soon: Insects in space?
- Americans pamper pets at upscale kennels
- Bugs Bunny may be wascally, but he's not a sexist
- Disney under fire for "Black Hoe" radio promo
- South Park too foul a name for British school
- San Francisco panel approves "pet guardian" move
- Rio surgeon's billboard nude sparks controversy
- Cunning conmen leave art dealers red-faced
- Quest for safe sex turns into condom fiasco
- La-Z-Boy introduces couch potatoes' dream recliner
- Welsh tourist injured in bizarre S.Africa accident
- And finally...
October 1999
- "Priests" make unholy buck at Tokyo altars
- Dutch Oven: Game Pits Nine Players Against 24 Cameras
- Alien issue splits Vancouver's sasquatch believers
- Ukrainian in the sun after 57 years of fear
- Snake, Sir, or something more exotic?
- Dead moose don't float -- and they're hard to drag
- World's best-preserved giant squid displayed in NY
- Prancing priest's "Jesus Twist" tops Brazil charts
- Patient's literary allusion prompts suicide check
- Looking for a bonsai baby-sitter? Find it in Brazil
- Goalkeeper blunders, Mussolini tries to score
- The most Ig Noble of prizes awarded
- Florida robber uses clear plastic bag as mask
November 1999
- "Blair Witch" town haunted by devotees
- Halloween a la Francais
- Serial slayer killed 140 Colombia children
- Legalising Dutch brothels may boost prices
- Phone sex op gets money for masturbation injury
- Mexican jail warden voyeur falls to death
- NY professor charged with using grant to buy heroin
- Bras were conductor in British lightning deaths
- British patient gets an earful from snuggly spider
- Alien Halloween no child's play for UK paramedics
- Texas church defends Columbine scene in "Hell House"
- Japan's Godzilla stomps back for new millennium
- Italy goose chase inspired by Siena's Palio
- Israeli youths end death camp trip with stripshow
- Novelist scoops "bad sex" award
- Florida strippers protest lap dance ban
- If French drivers are bad, and women drivers are bad, what about
December, 1999
- Virtual kangaroos' missile attack stuns army
- Doomsday group lives in Bible days, awaiting end
- Y2K doomsayer has waited a lifetime to prove himself
- Starbucks sued over alleged crushed penis
- Arizona man makes "mummy" out of his wife
- Retiree blows pension on one-night stand
- Clinton bans sex videos of animals being crushed
- Art battles sex at Cairo film festival
- San Francisco cooking show a walk on the wild side
- Mexican police search home 300 times, find nothing
- Daredevil jumps off Rio Christ in Bond-style stunt
- Playboy rides to rescue of their nude gymnastic model
- Daughters of Ali and Frazier may fight
- Hoax of "flood victim" outrages Venezuelans
January, 2000
- Vienna silent films first to drop bloomers
- Campy '50s educational films have resonance today
- Hollywood movie breaks Thai royal taboo
- Santa gets stoned...
- Y2K precautions lose Thai food vendor her savings
- Swazi speaker says he took cow dung to save king
- Dane sends mayday alarm as bathtub boat sinks
- Argentines protest at "racist" suntan ad
- Yellow underwear a hot item in Latin America
- Giveaway dolls scandalise Singapore
- Men charged in cocaine home delivery ring
- Bid to snap up crocodile's private parts thwarted
- Japanese guilty of demanding eye for a loan
- Rio sees topless sunbathing craze after crackdown
- Japan cult causes stir with name change
- Mystery iceballs claim "first victim" in Spain
February, 2000
- Suzy DeLucci and the Miracle of Life
- Pacifics exuberant form of cricket getting big international day out
- Web "porn-trepreneurs" get Internet business tips
- Dogfights draw the crowds in Kazakhstan
- Ottawa-funded porn film found awful, but not sexist
- Police save goldfish from becoming artistic soup
- South African critic sees fascism in Irish dance
- Canada government defends Paris Call Girl exhibit
- "Wadde hadde dudde da" Germany's song for Europe
- German TV's "indecent proposal" put on hold
- Glass house stirs Chileans' voyeurism
- Republicans debate merits of mosh pits
- NZ scientists present ball lightning theory
- After wrestling success, WWF tries new football league
- BA flight meets sticky end at Heathrow
- British villagers protest over topless hair salon
- Bill seeks to curb men's topless-bar reactions
March, 2000
- Stories not to be read before lunch...
- Tennessee farm is laboratory of human flesh
- Man converts pudding into travel
- Axes whetted for Norway ice-hacking sport
- Mexican Roman Catholic archdiocese attacks Pokemon
- Is Your Computer Possessed by a Demon?
- Shocked Florida man sues bars that served him
- Police free Frenchman after night in sex shop
- California dog lost to "road rage" sparks outcry
- Rio's pet owners dress dogs, hamsters for Carnival
- Topless takes center stage at Rio Carnival parades
- Officials were outraged by Bankhead sex life
- Fear grips passengers as therapy flight backfires
- "South Park" song poses Oscar dilemma
- Kenyan women protest at drinking dens, demand sex
- Georgian girl mourns dad with cellphone
April, 2000
- The 1999 Darwin Awards
- Mysterious "Area 51" photos prompt Web meltdown
- Mr. Skin peers beneath Oscar dresses
- Rebel Georgian region survives on smuggling
- Ultraman comes alive in Hong Kong eatery
- Frenchman caught smuggling boa in underpants
- Devil in the numbers for Russian tax ID card plan
- South Korea bakery uses Hitler model in TV ad
- Saucy ads in Los Angeles inspire fun, outrage
- German technicians discover lizards, mice in PCs
- Bare-all candidate livens up dull Greek elections
- Turkey's oil wrestlers do not want gays watching
- Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show
- Bowl Cronje out of jail in S.Africa web game
- Weird and wonderful on show at Geneva inventors fair
- San Francisco court is punk pioneers' next venue
- Super Granny: Defender of Justice - an allegedly true story...
May, 2000
- Self-proclaimed Aussie prince marks 30 years
- Sex videos teach China's pandas to copulate
- Miami rumor mill buzzes with Elian tales
- Man nabbed for tossing hats at Georgian leader
- US parents troubled by "Panty Raider" CD-ROM game
- Russia Internet pranksters sentenced to prison
- Music firms file U.S. suit over lewd holiday songs
- Judge orders mistrial after verdict coin-toss
- Prostitutes, dogs found in Colombian prison
- Elite Kenyan police unit turns to life of crime
- Kansans spared by winds see guardian in news photo
- Porn stars crave recognition on fringes of Cannes
- "Save the whales" trip beached -- by a whale
- Finnish-born team sizzles to Swedish sauna crown
- U.S. study charts violence in animated films
June, 2000
- Submarine in Ukraine steppes? Why not?
- The Lady Wore a Trenchcoat
- For Neanderthals, life was a meaty problem
- Thai massage parlours score with Euro 2000 colours
- Euro2000 Tournament bad for sex business
- Bangkok police threaten red card for Euro 2000 topless show
- Dame Edna's gladioli toss lands in court
- Fake badges bypass U.S. government security
- Tired of Internet porn, try Iowa corn
- British rail user "injured" 49 times in one year
- Madrid mountains are sexy like Naomi, says book
- Swiss "Hollywood insider" made up star interviews
- No relief from that crinkly candy wrapper-report
- Mexico government gets men stripping to win votes
- Gnaws: Crazed beaver terrorizes Canadian farm
- NY dancer wins $30,000 for botched buttock surgery
- Upstate New York farmer "lord of the flies"
July, 2000
- Bug enthusiasts spur Japan beetle boom
- Helping Trigger: L.A. group protects movie animals
- Violence, not sex, turns French minister off film
- Protecting money with a shield of secrecy
- Madrid prostitutes cleared to dress down for work
- Canada radio allowed to insult Chinese restaurants
- Sharon Stone laughs off lurid Hollywood tales
- Bare-breasted mermaid lures in Norway fjord
- Fashion craze deprives Norway planes of seatbelts
- Barbie gets rival in presidential doll race
- PETA asks judge to free anti-meat cow
- Spice Girls of the steppes enliven Mongolia poll
- Brazil president said safe from eggs at 180 feet
- London schoolchildren prefer sex cards to Pokemon
- Toronto big on girth and record of Blue Jays pitcher
- AIDS-hit Swaziland to ban mini skirts at schools
- Getting there faster: light's speed accelerated
August, 2000
- Pickled baby? Book reveals science's hidden relics
- Forget Dolly the sheep, Tasmanian tiger is next
- Cubans flock to Santeria, leaving fowl in wake
- Stolen stitches online rock needlepoint world
- Pregnant virgin assured of a happy ending
- Drug 'mules' stitch and swallow to stash cache
- Swiss spit world record with cherry stones
- Green light for Formula One red light zone
- Polish woman wins Europe's only screaming contest
- Shoe rule cuts Chicago traders down to size
- L.A. man sues Duran Duran for posting number on Web
- Gnomes meet ignominious fate at Aussie bank
- Princess Diana's brother slams lookalike video
- Police guard cactus as Mexican agave turns to gold
- Bad glue foils Russian crook's fake ear escape
- Man killed self in woodchipper, tried to pull in girlfriend
- Spoof virginity tester is banned in Greece
- Conman talks women out of their underwear
- Taxing times for belly dancers as their assets slip down the years
September, 2000
- Japan stands defiant as world condemns whaling
- Crime Scene Cleaners carve out a gory niche
- One man's meat was a neighbor in U.S. southwest
- Flight attendant tells all in musical revue
- Brain injury gives hand a mind of its own
- Tour organisers fear prostitutes may disrupt time trial
- Real fight for director's chair in Russia
- Need to store cocaine? try Venezuela's Central Bank
- Chocolates and porno greet Dubai students
- China police open brothel, crack down to make cash
- Breast implant tax break for Danish massage worker
- "Sprints!" "Relays!" and "Marathons!" in Olympic sex tout
- Russian doctors remove live grenade from soldier
- US mistakenly counted two animals in tire toll
- Monkeys pelt vehicles with fruit on U.S. highway
- Cor, lover duck, you're enormous
- Bees get a buzz out of alcohol
- Italian kills 23 in bare-handed mosquito frenzy
October, 2000
- Dracula relative wants your blood
- Bare-breasted poet takes on Calif. loggers
- Ukraine's Army Wants You -- for a holiday
- Bogong moths the perfect omelette filling
- Stuffed wombat may get kicked out of Games
- Olympic fame's OK -- but you've got to look good too
- New Zealand noise man serves up party revenge
- Naked drug-runners nabbed off Colombia coast
- Gator carcasses spill on Florida highway
- Swedish paper offers elk hunting on the Web
- Government aid for Britney Spears impersonator
- Hungarian police detains pyromaniac fireman
- Maltese actors beaten after staging bag snatching
- Australians put privates on parade for stage hit
- Chicago judge shuts down vote-buying Web site
- Greek police bust their sponsors -- a strip club
- Curry can be addictive, British study shows
- French clerics crusade against Halloween
January, 2003
- Is Hussein Owner of Crashed UFO?
- Can a Giant Lava Lamp Save the Town?
- Virgin Mary Seen on Picture Window in Canada
- Politician Caught Up in Vampire Rumors
- Stairway to Heaven in Shopping Mall
- Hippos Roam Colombian Drug Lord's Abandoned Ranch
- Hockey Coach Rips Out Tongue of Rival Mascot
- Man Pierces Record with 702 Needles
- TV license fee demanded from 8th Century Saint
- Prostitute, 77, Mugged After Night Shift
- 'Exploding' Frying Pans Recalled
February, 2003
- Amphibian Man Declares War
- Ads before movies prompt lawsuit
- Trial Set in Southwest Racist Rhyme Suit
- Man Complains Bad Rope Spoiled His Suicide
- Woman chased by fake alien sues TV show
- Catholics Flock to Fence-Post Virgin Mary
- Need a Conference Venue? Rent Liechtenstein
- Penguins Destroy Antarctic Hut with Their Poo
- Infertile Lioness Makes Ill-Fated Antelope Adoption
- Istanbul Launches 'Escaped Bull' Hotline
- Hungry 'Hitchcock' Ravens Kill 19 Sheep
- Humans Taste Good to All Lions, Not Just the Sick
- World�s Fattest Cat Lives in Russia
- Naked Kidnap Fantasy Has Police Scrambling
- Trapeze Artist Attacks Rival with Castration Tongs
- Police baffled as thieves steal hair from horses' tails, manes
- Fast barstool in hot water
- End of the World Is Nigh, Says Long-Dead Scientist
March, 2003
- English Harry Potter Vs. Russian Tanya Grotter
- Seven riddles suggest a secret city beneath Tokyo
- Worst U.S. Industrial Tragedy All but Forgotten
- How to 'beat the small men' in Hong Kong
- Brothel for Sex-Starved Dogs
- Police Nab Boy Torching Goldfish with Flame-thrower
- Boy Sparks Inferno with Paper Airplane
- Baked Bean Foot Prankster Dupes Shopkeeper
- 'N Sync Defense Gets Murder Acquittal
- Three Die Retrieving Phone from Latrine
- Two-headed Calf Born in Russia�s Vologda Region
- Sex Museum Seeks to Break Taboos
- Drug Dealers Go on Strike
- Korea's 'lucky' triplets seized
- Tony's incredible rubber ball falls flat

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