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Nine-year-olds plotted to tie up and hurt teacher!

WAYCROSS, Georgia - April 2, 2008 -Nine-year-olds at a school in the U.S. state of Georgia brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs and electrical tape to school in a plot to injure their teacher, authorities said on Tuesday.

Teachers at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia, uncovered the plot on Friday when a pupil reported that a child in the third grade had brought a we

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Australians break undersea ironing record!

MELBOURNE, Australia - April 2, 2008 - A group of 72 Australian scuba divers has flattened the world record for ironing under water, taking the plunge off a pier near the southern city of Melbourne with ironing boards and irons, and their linen.

So-called "extreme ironing" has spawned a cult following in recent years. The Web site extremeironing.com espouses it as being

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Live on Good Mourning TV!

LONDON, England - April 1, 2008 - Pay-per-view funerals go live online in Britain on Tuesday, allowing mourners who cannot attend services in person to pay their last respects via the Internet.

Despite criticism of the scheme as macabre, the company who launched the service, Wesley Music, is planning to offer it to crematoria across the country who will charge a one-off payment of

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Pizza driver who shot robber overwhelmed with citizen support!

DES MOINES, Iowa - April 1, 2008 - A Des Moines pizza driver who was suspended from his job after he shot an armed robber said today he has been overwhelmed by support from people who cheered what happened.

“But no one had contacted me directly about a job offer,” said James William Spiers III, 38, who was sent home by Pizza Hut managers after he fired multiple shots a

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India stops selling rice as costs soar!

INDIA - April 1, 2008 - The export of all non-basmati rice from India has been halted amid growing concerns about depleting world food storages.

The move was prompted by a 13-month-high inflation figure, which in turn is being blamed on the soaring global cost of food.

India's government also scrapped import taxes for edible oil and maize, extended a current export

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Truckers protesting high fuel prices!

TRENTON, New Jersey - April 1, 2008 - Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the road and others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices. Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize

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Gore's organization to spend $300M on climate change campaign!

WASHINGTON - March 31, 2008 - Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore will launch a $300 million U.S. initiative on Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Washington Post reported.

The plan will be the most ambitious and expensive advocacy campaign in American history, the Post reported Sunday.

The Alliance for Climate Prote