Reuters – Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

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Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU
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AP – A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen.

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‘Old Baldy’ horse head going back up in Philly
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AP – The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren’t aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs.

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New Zealand woman sells souls to highest bidder
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Reuters – Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

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Lender putting www.sex.com on auction block
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Reuters – Don’t mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country’s national anthem gender-neutral.

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Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem
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AFP – It may seem odd, but the locals swear it’s true. People in a Japanese mountain region have reported a number of kangaroo sightings, and journalists are now trying to stalk the marsupials

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Japan town baffled by ‘kangaroo’ sightings
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AP – A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. But as she was changing into an inmate uniform, she squirted breast milk into the face of a female deputy who was with her.

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Woman charged in breast milk assault on jailer
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AP – A long-running argument over a favorite McDonald’s parking spot has resulted in an assault conviction. A Colorado jury on Friday convicted 52-year-old Vernon Brandt of Loveland of felony third-degree assault for a 2008 fight with 85-year-old Richard Albers.

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McDonald’s parking spot dispute turns violent
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AP – A Winter Haven man was arrested after authorities said he took a winning scratch-off ticket back to the store he had stolen it from a day earlier. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported that a 22-year-old man stole $70 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from a Circle K store on Sunday

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Accused scratch-off thief returns to same store
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AP – Police said a North Pole woman accused in December of stealing televisions and hiring a cabbie as her getaway driver is now accused of trying it again. The Fairbanks Dail News-Miner reported that a 27-year-old woman was charged with second-degree felony robbery and misdemeanor theft in the Friday incident, which occurred just one week after she posted bail in the similar case last year.

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Police: Woman again tries using cabs to steal TVs
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