There’s still time for this octogenarian outlaw to turn over a new leaf. An 82-year-old German marijuana dealer avoided prison after his 25th …
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HONG KONG (AP) — Two giant inflatable ducks made a splash in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor on Friday, marking the return of a pop-art project that sparked a frenzy in the city a decade ago. The two 18-meter-tall yellow ducks by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman resemble the bath toys many played with in …
As any Barbie fan knows, life in plastic is fantastic — and also very pink. So much so, in fact, that the makers of the highly anticipated live-action movie say they wiped out a company's entire global supply of one shade of it. "The world ran out of pink," production designer Sarah Greenwood told …
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Cougars strolled down the streets of Santiago, Chile. Goats took over a small Welsh town. Jackals played in a park in Tel Aviv. And sea lions made …
The thing about putting a pair of 10-foot metal Transformers statues outside your townhouse in the most picturesque district of the nation’s capital is that the neighbors are going to have opinions. And on Prospect Street in Georgetown, they were not pleased. The statues — Bumblebee and Optimus …
Utrecht’s Fish Doorbell has helped thousands of fish swim upstream to reproduce. Retired software distributor Daan van Rooijen grew up fishing in the …
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