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It is interesting that some in China have expressed concern over this policewoman’s actions. Would they have said the same thing if the orphans were 35 year old males? See, not ‘pigs’ are bad.

A Chinese policewoman who breastfed babies orphaned during last month’s earthquake has been given a better job, prompting online protests that promotions should be awarded on merit, not merely for good deeds.

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Still on your honeymoon but fed up with you new wife already? Is your new marriage not all it is cracked up to be?

Then Gabe Watson has a way to get rid of an unwanted wife.

Step one
Convince your sweetheart that a honeymoon in a  tropical place would be great, lets say…Australia!

Step two
You cannot be in a tropical paradise and no go diving, so make the most of your  experience as a diver and convince her what fun diving is.

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It seems that ex Aussie PM Paul Keating stands no chance of winning the Eurovision song contest.

The likelihood is not much improved if the ex Labor party leader were to team up with recently ousted Liberal leader and recent Aussie PM, John Howard.

These chances have been measured against Keating’s chances of landing the post of being the next G’Day campaign in the UK.

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In an accident somewhat similar to shooting yourself in the foot comes the tale of the fumbling security guard who downed his own plane. Lucky it was not in the air at the time…

Top UN ambassadors were forced to hitch a bus ride from Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda after a security guard accidentally shot a hole in their plane, a UN spokesman said.

The Security Council ambassadors had been visiting violent eastern Congo during a trip to promote peacekeeping operations and other efforts to end some of the most intractable conflicts in Africa.

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A challenger to the popular Microsoft Office program is going to be renamed after threats of legal action from Microsoft.

The recently launched product (read about it here), which provides an alternative to all the inclusions of the Microsoft office suit and sells for hundreds of dollars cheaper has been targeted as trying to pass itself off as Office.

This has led to a rethink on the name and the packaging with the product now to be called FukOffice.

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I have 2 shark jaws on my wall, each as fearsome as this. They came from a 6′ and 9′ bronze whaler shark, one I cut from the shark’s head 35 years ago. I still remember how hard it was to do ….

But of course I was not a fucking stupid as this lad. I put them somewhere were they would not be subject to nocturnal interactions. They are safe on my office wall, looking at me now. Beautiful things. Not grotesquely set in kitsch some fiberglass shell of a head.

Of course, being mostly on the wall did not stop one girl getting her head stuck in one when my daughter took it for show and tell at school.  All ended well, the jaw was undamaged and she only needed three band aids and some antiseptic wipes.

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Researchers at the Townsville Aquarium are excited about a new jelly fish they have found.

Dr Lisa Gershwin lead researcher, said the jellyfish was not found in the open ocean, but in a jellyfish tank at the aquarium.

It is an unusual looking jellyfish - about 1 cm long and looking well, rather like snot on the bottom of the tank.

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Pensioners in Melbourne Australia, stripped  in public yesterday in protest at the low level of the base pension.

The antic caused traffic mayhem as drivers craned their necks to see the older Aussies prancing about in their undergarments.

Organiser of the protest, Mrs Mavis Simms, said this was the only way she knew to attract the government’s attention.

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