The Nigerian national football team has been banned from competitive games for two years by the country’s president following their poor performance at the World Cup.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian university is on the hunt for girls who recoil at the sight of spiders for research into how dread affects the processes of the brain.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A man who threw a shoe at Israel’s chief justice, knocking her off the bench, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in jail.
AUCKLAND (Reuters) - A lock of hair cut from Napoleon Bonaparte’s head after he died has sold for US$13,000 at an auction in New Zealand.
BOSTON (Reuters) - The cash-strapped state of Rhode Island is hoping to turn residents’ patriotic fervor into a boost in tax revenue this July 4th, after passing a law that legalizes small fireworks for individual use.
A student who weighs just four stone has told how she must eat up to 60 meals a day to stay alive.
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A beauty queen has been stripped of her title - because she lied about her age and where she lived.
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MEXICO CITY, June 28 (Reuter) - Mexican singer Sergio Vega was murdered while on a national tour at the weekend, just hours after denying reports of his death, local media reported.
LONDON (Reuters) - Modern festival-goers who dread ending up with a dead mobile phone battery after days stuck in a muddy field with no electric plug power points may now have a solution — power boots.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s financial regulator has fined and banned a former broker for manipulating oil prices by buying more than 7 million barrels while on a drinking binge.