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October 4, 2005
Police have detained half a dozen Mexico City prostitutes for using eye drops containing a sleep-inducing drug to knock out their clients and rob them. Reuters
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September 29, 2005
A recent court ruling in Belgium has inspired a legal magazine to justify erotic converstaion with a virtual partner in chatrooms on the Internet as grounds for divorce, Reuters reports. According to Belgian legal publication De Juristenkrant
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September 28, 2005
Police in northwestern Pakistan are initiating an inquiry after receiving complaints that two dead women won positions at a local election held last month. The women were elected as councilors in the Upper Dir district in the North West Frontier Province. However, both died 13 years and three years ago, respectively.
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September 14, 2005
Bruce Lee will become a new symbol of unity for the ethnically divided Bosnian city of Mostar, when it erects a statue of the kung fu legend. Worshipped by Muslims, Serbs and Croats, a group of enthusiasts came up with the idea of honouring the childhood hero of the city's ethnic groups in 2003, on the 30th anniversary of his death. They launched the project, found donors and waited a year for the city's approval.
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September 7, 2005
Researchers looking for ways to eradicate toxic cane toads have found a way to trap them using ultra-violet "disco" lights, Introduced from Hawaii in 1935, the pests are now an environmental menace, spreading in the millions across Australia's tropical north. Cane toads, some as big as dinner plates, can even kill crocodiles and wild dogs with their hallucinogenic venom.
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