SYDNEY, Australia - Thieves who stole 16 tonnes of ham and bacon from a warehouse in Australia left behind a message taunting the business just weeks before the holiday season.

The crooks daubed Thanks…Merry Christmas on a wall of the Zammit warehouse in suburban Sydney as they made off with their haul.
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BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) - Frustration and anger over losses compelled a homeless man to bash a slot machine until it broke, an eastern Iowa man told a judge on Monday.
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Raleigh — A man who was pardoned after spending 18 years behind bars for a rape he didn’t commit has been sued for back child support.

Dwayne Allen Dail, 39, was cleared in August of the 1987 rape of a 12-year-old Goldsboro girl. The girl identified him as her attacker and hair found at the scene was similar to his. But DNA evidence found on a fragment of the girl’s nightgown years after the trial proved Dail wasn’t involved in the attack.
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The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.

SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.
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A CZECH couple who took a DNA test to squash persistent pub gossip about the parentage of their 10-month-old baby got a nasty surprise when it was found neither of them were.
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BEIJING - A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.

The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he ha been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
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FULTON COUNTY, Ga. – Police say a business owner who was having financial problems shot and killed two of his employees after they asked him for a raise.
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