GRAND FALLS, N.B. - Members of a large Acadian family from New Brunswick say they have earned a place in the record books as the family with the most siblings over the age of 65.
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A German backpacker has been caught spraying graffiti on the rocks and ice face at Franz Josef Glacier.

Police said English tourists managed to photograph Jan Philip Scharbert on Thursday as he tagged rock walls leading up to the glacier terminal and even the glacier ice.
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BERLIN - Police dogs in the western city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol — the entire dog unit will soon be equipped with blue plastic fiber shoes, a police spokesman said Monday.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Seventy-two small fish were briefly launched into space by researchers Thursday, hoping their swimming patterns would shed some light on motion sickness.
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An Israeli MP has blamed a spate of earthquakes in the Middle East on gays.

Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, said the tremors could be stopped by repealing liberal laws on homosexuality.
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The first flight by a commercial airline to be powered partly by biofuel has taken place.

A Virgin Atlantic jumbo jet has flown between London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts.
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