Offbeat

KATMANDU, Nepal: The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest said she doesn’t intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people’s opinions of Saudi women and...
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Napoleon used years on St. Helena to learn English

Sunday 5 June 2011
PARIS: Graying, ink stained notebook fragments showing Napoleon Bonaparte's efforts two centuries ago to grasp the English language go on auction in Paris a
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Birthday bash spoiled by social ‘nutwork’ site

Sunday 5 June 2011
BERLIN: Better check your Facebook settings before posting a party invitation online. A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday
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Malaysia’s ‘obedient wives’  anger rights groups

Sunday 5 June 2011
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian group urging wives to avoid marital problems by fulfilling their husbands’ desires has angered politicians and women’s rights group
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Woman, 100, has bank account from 1913

Saturday 4 June 2011
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio: A woman in Ohio has been treated to a birthday party at her bank — where she still holds the same savings account her father opened for her
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Born seconds apart, dead hours apart

Saturday 4 June 2011
92-year-old ‘inseparable’ twins leave the world together BUFFALO, New York: Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apa
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Playwright Kushner gets NY honor after Israel flap

Saturday 4 June 2011
NEW YORK: Urging graduates to repair “the public conversation” and rescue society from “grim careerists and ideologues,” playwright Tony Kushner on Frida
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No saggy pants allowed on some Texas buses

Saturday 4 June 2011
SAN ANTONIO: Saggy pants may be fashionable among urban youth but they won’t be allowed on some buses in the state of Texas. “Pull ‘em up
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Sold: The bomb-making tools of Theodore Kaczynski

Saturday 4 June 2011
LOS ANGELES: An online auction of the belongings of one of America’s most notorious criminals, “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, generated $232,246 to compen
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Balloon boy flies to new heights in US

Saturday 4 June 2011
TOME, New Mexico: A 9-year-old boy has lifted off from a desolate patch of central New Mexico and floated into history. Bobby Bradley became th
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The bald truth: Rooney goes for hair transplant

Saturday 4 June 2011
LONDON: England striker Wayne Rooney has had a hair transplant. Rooney confirmed the news via Twitter: “I was going bald at 25, why not. I’
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