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George W Bush in Dallas - 20/2/2009
Bush declines hardware store job
Former US President George W Bush visits the Dallas, Texas, hardware store that offered him a job earlier this month.

Mike Poster of Mike Myers' film The Love Guru Flop earns Myers Razzies triple
Mike Myers' The Love Guru wins three Golden Raspberries, the mock awards for the worst Hollywood films of the year.

Archive photo of chess pieces Bulgarian challenges chess record
A Bulgarian grandmaster begins 360 chess matches in a bid to break the record for the number of games played simultaneously.

A drawing of Atlantis Google dismisses 'Atlantis find'
The Lost City of Atlantis is still lost - despite hopes that Google Earth had located the fabled city on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy
Elizabeth I's navy from around the time of the Armada was evolving into a far more powerful force than previously realised.

Turning pregnant bumps into art
An expectant mum offers her belly as a blank canvas to a face-painter who is branching out....into bumps.

Online networking 'harms health'
Social networking sites could be harming people's health by reducing levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims.

Indian charmers want their snakes
Some 1,000 Indian snake charmers march in Calcutta in protest of a law that has made their profession illegal.

Baboon book makes shortlist for oddest title prize
An annual prize for oddly-named books reveals its 2009 shortlist. Baboon Metaphyics is among the nominees.

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Pinki, co-organiser of the anarchist speed-dating event GSOH required
Pinki's an anarchist, and off to speed-dating
Man breasts Moobs
Why the obsession with excessive male breasts?
Google favicon Google's favicon
What is behind the search engine's new tiny icon?
Liquorice Allsorts So long Woolies
What do people actually buy in Woolworths?
Guy Bagley building Lego models Lego living
The man who gets his 'kicks from plastic bricks'
Underwear model Karolina Kurkova No belly button?
Is a barely-there navel for cosmetic or medical reasons?
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Egg-shaped electric car Egg-shaped car - it's Odd Box

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Model picks up shoes on catwalk High heel trouble on the catwalk

horse Runaway horse in French capital

Jason Freun wearing his sandwich board Sandwich board man gets job

Meerkats Baby meerkats unveiled in Sydney

Robot 'Child robot' on show in UK

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