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Aussies to be fined for swearing!

MELBOURNE, Australia - May 31, 2011 - Australians may have a love of plain speaking but new laws are set to curtail some of their more colorful language, with police issuing on-the-spot fines for obnoxious swearing.

The country's second most populous state, Victoria, is due to approve new legislation this week under which police will be able to slap fines of up to Aus $240 (US $257)

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High radioactivity found in Japan nuclear workers!

TOKYO, Japan - May 30, 2011 - Two workers from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been contaminated by high levels of radioactive iodine, the operator said Monday, prompting fears over their long-term health.

The workers, reportedly men in their 30s and 40s, may have already been exposed to radiation levels higher than the recently boosted official annual limit, Japanese m

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Church fined $100 per branch for excessive tree pruning!

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - May 28, 2011 - Every two to three years, Eddie Sales trims and prunes the crape myrtles at his church, Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church.

But this year, the city of Charlotte cited the church for improperly pruning its trees.

"We always keep our trees trimmed back because you don't want to worry about them hanging down in the way," said Sales,

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NFL player’s common sense bin Laden comments attacked!

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (PNN) - May 4, 2011 - NFL star Rashard Mendenhall has found himself in hot water over comments posted to his Twitter account on Monday in the wake of reports of the death of Osama bin Laden.

The Pittsburgh Steelers running back tweeted, among other things, “What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even h

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Disney World scanners mock TSA!

ORLANDO, Florida - May 26, 2011 - By the time they arrive at Disney World, families would normally expect they'd seen the last of TSA's infamously rigorous full-body scans.

Instead, when they enter one of the revamped rides in Orlando, Florida, they'll find themselves subject to apparently stringent checks - at the hands of two Star Wars droids.

But in fact the scans are f

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Greeks mobilize to protect endangered seeds from GM encroachment!

ATHENS, Greece - May 25, 2011 - The remote valley of Mesohori in northeastern Greece seems an unusual choice for a stand against genetically modified crop conglomerates who are knocking on Europe's door.

Yet thousands of organic farming advocates seeking to bar so-called "Frankenstein" foods from the continent made the journey here to Greece to help raise awareness about dangers to s

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U.S. to store passenger data for 15 years!

WASHINGTON - May 25, 2011 - The personal data of millions of passengers who fly between the U.S. and Europe, including credit card details, phone numbers and home addresses, may be stored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for 15 years, according to a draft agreement between Washington and Brussels leaked to The Guardian.

The "restricted" draft, which emerged from negotiatio