Something tells me that most of us would be better off not summoning the emergency services for hamster rescue - if we have no personal connection to trade on, that is…

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The moral of this tale? If contemplating breaking and entering - buy a decent belt.

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Football fever and dreams of World Cup glory have gripped Kazakhstan at a time of great national progress and development. Whether that can be translated into sporting success is another matter.

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Well, it looks like the insurance loss adjustor who claimed Steve Fossett may have faked his death made a seriously bad call.

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Here’s something that’s just too good not to share. Mourners at a Shrewsbury graveyard have got a little impatient at being told what they can and cannot put on the graves of loved ones. So they fought back. Do not click on the following link with a mouthful of liquid

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Particle physicists advise: live the next two days as if they were your last, just in case they are. CERN, the giant research laboratory in Switzerland that invented the internet and provided much food for thought for novelist Dan Brown, is about to switch on a new piece of kit that causes black holes.

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Sorry to be so intensely cynical about this. But I’m afraid I agree with the commenter on this Daily Telegraph story who says it looks every bit as much like a Dementor as the Virgin Mary.

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A previously unacknowledged earthquake threat to New York City has been discovered. But wait, there’s more. And it’s even worse news. The Indian Point nuclear power plant, in upstate New York, is sitting right on top of an earthquake hotspot.

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This was never going to end well, was it? Half-expecting something of Alien Autopsy proportions, I was quite disappointed that it fell apart so soon.

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Did the adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett fake his own death? This seems like an incredible question to find posed in a national newspaper, even in August. You feel that an editor would want some pretty decent sources before running a story of this sort, that is potentially so upsetting to the deceased’s loved ones. Yet, here is The Independent running just such a story. And it has some pretty good sources.

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