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A huge wolf attacked terrified motorists in their cars at a motorway service station after being driven out of a nearby forest in the hunt for food, say police in Split, Croatia.

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  • A drugs trafficking ring smuggling 38 kilos of cocaine worth nearly 8 million GBP inside hollowed out pineapples has been thwarted by customs officials in the Ukraine.
    Pineapple Ring
    A drugs trafficking ring smuggling 38 kilos of cocaine worth nearly 8 million GBP inside hollowed out pineapples has been thwarted by customs official ...
  • Animal rights campaigners are in talks to stop tens of thousands of stray dogs and cats being slaughtered in the Ukraine ahead of football's Euro 2012 tournament in June.
    Euro 2012 Halts Dog Slaughter
    Animal rights campaigners are in talks to stop tens of thousands of stray dogs and cats being slaughtered in the Ukraine ahead of football's Euro 2012 ...
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    Facebook Fiend
    Jealous 46-year-old husband Neven Matic bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer after discovering that she'd found a lover through Facebook. ...
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    Back Of The Net
    Optimistic tourism chiefs in Kiev, the Ukraine, have prepared 16 sight-seeing tours for Euro 2012 soccer fans taking them round churches, monasteries, ...
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    Bum Rapper
    A rapper on the dole is to lose his benefits after job centre officials found his lyrics online bragging about how he sponges off taxpayers. ...
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    Mind Blowing Sex For OAPs
    Frisky pensioners who continue to have sex well into their 70s are less likely to suffer from confusion and memory loss in later life, a new study int ...
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    High Price
    A military official is facing 12 years in jail in Russia after he sold a 1 million GBP airfield and kept the cash, say prosecutors. ...
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    Night Shift
    A jobless hubby has made a TV appeal to find a job - so his wife can give up her life as a hooker in Castelfranco, Italy. ...
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    Surgeons Pay For Boob
    Bungling medics who failed to notice a patient's tumor during a routine breast health screening have been ordered to pay her 500,000 GBP compensation ...
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    Win When Youre Singing
    Opera star Placido Domingo is to sing at the Euro 2012 finals in Kiev, the Ukraine, in June, say football officials. ...
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    Sour Krauts
    A 10 mile traffic jam left German motorists fuming - when more than a ton of sauerkraut froze solid on a motorway after a truck overturned. ...
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    Herr Dryer
    An airhead driver blew his car to pieces trying to warm up frozen diesel fuel pipes with a hair dryer, say police in Feldkirchen, Germany. ...
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    Long Time Dead
    A policeman suspected of murdering his wife and hiding her body may finally face murder charges - now she's been declared officially dead four years a ...
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    Sick Transit
    A white van man has been rapped by fire fighters after he accidentally torched his Ford Transit when he put two electric heaters under the bonnet to w ...
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    Berlusconi Gay Gaffe
    Disgraced former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has angered gay campaigners with a new gaffe when he was asked about his hostility to homose ...
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    Paedo Castration Law
    Russian lawmakers have passed a new law allowing judges to order the chemical castration of convicted paedophiles. ...
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    Silly Noodle
    Chinaman Wei Ling lost his noodle after hitting the town to drown his sorrows when he was dumped by his girlfriend - and then discovering that his fav ...
  • A real life Pretty Woman who gave up her 5,000 GBP a week earnings after falling for a man outside the vice trade has become a TV star in a documentary where she tells of her struggle to give up the red light business.
    Pity Woman
    A real life Pretty Woman who gave up her 5,000 GBP a week earnings after falling for a man outside the vice trade has become a TV star in a documentar ...
  • Zoo officials in China are facing condemnation for staging a fire safety campaign for children - by forcing terrified animals to face up to flames and smoke.
    Cruel Zoo Under Fire
    Zoo officials in China are facing condemnation for staging a fire safety campaign for children - by forcing terrified animals to face up to flames and ...
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    Warm Heart
    Warm-hearted mayor Milan Bandic has offered to put up he homeless at his own house at Arctic temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius hit Croatia's ca ...
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    Car Baby Horror
    Horrified car thieves dialysed 999 when they broke into a motor and discovered a baby's body in a rucksack, say police in Merzig, Germany. ...
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    Frozen Stiff
    Romanian officials confirmed that another five people froze to death at the start of this week bringing to 39 the total of those killed by the current ...
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    Miserable Plot
    Jilted hubby Florin Dan Munteanu, 38, who allegedly tried to kill his wife with a bomb hidden inside a copy of the book 'Les Miserables' has been arre ...
  • These thrifty motorists paid the price for a cheap parking spot - when they discovered it was next to a demolition site in Xianyang, in Shaanxi province, western China.
    Brick and Tyred
    These thrifty motorists paid the price for a cheap parking spot - when they discovered it was next to a demolition site in Xianyang, in Shaanxi provin ...
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    Slippery Customers
    A safe loaded with a fortune in banknotes was abandoned by burglars when their getaway car crashed into a snowdrift in Arctic conditions in Vodice, Cr ...
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    Hard Time
    Italian Orso Cremonesi, 58, who almost died when Viagra pills he bought on the internet turned out to be fake is also facing prosecution for buying pr ...
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    Gagging For It Order
    Randy 27-year-old Vesna Pesic has had a gagging order slapped on her by judges after she was sued by neighbours who were sick of the sound of her nois ...
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    Train Makes The Strain
    Training has taken on a new meaning for members of Romanian side Otelul Galati which were knocked out of the play offs for the Champions league last a ...

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