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YOU can Be A Superhero Action Figure

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YOU can Be A Superhero Action Figure

Who is the secretive soul behind Batman’s cowl, Superman’s curl, and Wonderwoman’s enormous pants? Forget Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and Diana Prince – now you can play the alter ego of everyone’s favourite comic book characters. And you don’t even need a convincing origin story. Thanks to Personalised Superhero Action Figures you can pop your [...]

Cooking with Poo wins Diagram Prize

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Cooking with Poo wins Diagram Prize

A Thai cookbook has won this year’s Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year. Cooking With Poo is written by Bangkok chef Saiyuud Diwong whose nickname is Poo – which is Thai for “crab”. She runs a cookery school for locals and tourists in the city’s largest slum, alongside the charitable organisation that [...]

IN OTHER WORLD NEWS – MONDAY 19 MARCH 2012

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IN OTHER WORLD NEWS – MONDAY 19 MARCH 2012

In Vienna, Austria, two police patrol cars who were responding to an armed robbery at a tobacconist shop crashed into each other, injuring four pedestrians and five police officers. In Amberg, Germany, 28 year old Laura Dietrich plunged 60ft to her death when she jumped over the balcony of her fifth floor apartment as she [...]

Spanish Hotel Especially For Lovers

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Spanish Hotel Especially For Lovers

Boasting 40 luxurious rooms, a new hotel called “Shhh” (yes, you can click the link), located in the town of Onda, is set to change the face of hotels in the area as it has been opened with the sole purpose of providing refuge to couples who don´t want to be seen together in public. [...]

Around the world this week

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Around the world this week

WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN Artist Stefan Bohnenberger has been awarded thousands in compensation, after a gallery lost two of his four potato chips that formed part of an exhibit that had featured in the 1990 work ‘Pommes d’Or’. Owner of the Mosel and Tschechow gallery in Munich, Andrea Tschechow, had claimed that the pieces [...]

Brothel For The Homeless

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Brothel For The Homeless

Homeless people are queueing up for free rooms in an Austrian brothel after owner Peter Laskaris said it would be unfair not to do everything he could during the current cold spell. Laskaris, owner of the Red Rooms Laufhaus in the Austrian capital Vienna, has opened his door to the homeless as temperatures of minus [...]