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February 17, 2006
Authorities call off the search for an award-winning show dog that got loose at New York's Kennedy Airport. However, officials say they are keeping an eye out for the wayward whippet.
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February 8, 2006
The brother of a missing New Zealand diver says his family's prayers have been answered. The former navy diver has been found alive after 72 hours at sea. Police say the man was wearing only the bottom of his dive suit and was "very cold. "Searchers found Robert Hewitt alive after he'd been missing at sea for three days. He was found floating wearing only the bottom of his dive suit and "very cold," said Bruce Johnson, a police search and rescue official. Hewitt, 38, had survived on crawfish and kina, a type of sea urchin, he had caught while diving. Police say the father of two survived without water thanks to his training and experience as a former NZ navy diver. Hewitt is recovering in a Wellington hospital suffering from dehydration and hypothermia.
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January 30, 2006
Brazilian TV broadcasts footage of a baby girl being rescued from a black plastic bag floating in a lake. The moment when the bag was fished out and opened by a park worker in Belo Horizonte was captured on amateur footage.
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January 28, 2006
"Bigfoot" fever has gripped Malaysia in recent weeks, prompting two teams of scientists to plan treks into the rainforest in search of a huge ape. There have been several sightings in recent weeks of a tall, gorilla-like creature in the forest around the state of Johor.
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January 24, 2006
A man in search of cheap video camera winds up saving a family's irreplaceable footage. Fred Murray picked up an $8. 00 camera and found a 40-minute tape that showed a baby girl's first moments after birth, and being held by her grandfather.
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