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Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Beedi vs vada-pav
The battle over Chhatrapati Shivaji has attained new levels of ludicrity in state politics.

Software for low-cost laptops
After a long dispute, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows for (OLPC).
SLIDESHOW
Do you know what your dog was meant to do?
We buy them and then turn them into lapdogs, but that's far-removed from what these pooches were bred to do. So read on and find out what Fido does behind your back…
ASTROLOGY
PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
Today you want the freedom to speak openly and move around as it suits you. You really won’t appreciate being fenced in. If you can’t travel literally, you can always travel in your mind. Get out the holiday brochures, read books with an exotic flavour,.
A golden cow in war-hit Jaffna
Remember the famous story about the goose that laid the golden eggs? Well, in Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula, it was a cow that yielded a valuable gold chain!
Kids, mom live with corpse for weeks
Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman in their home's only bathroom.
Denied food, man hacks wife to death
A woman was hacked to death by her husband after she refused to serve him food as she was feeding her baby, police said.
Volvo puts foot in it
A German court has ruled car maker Volvo has to pay compensation to a man who claimed his feet were too big to use the accelerator on his new car.
Dad's 71 day trek to meet son
A 72-year-old Chinese man walked more than 600 miles to visit his son in prison. The man walked for 71 days
Jail threat for naughty kids
A Romanian kindergarten teacher is in trouble after she allegedly asked a policeman to threaten her pupils with jail for being naughty.
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