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POPSGreek parrot in parking fine row Patras's Deputy Mayor Spiros Demartinos is embarrassed that Coco's plight is attracting international attention. He would prefer to talk about the city's ambitious plans to use parking revenue for funding bicycle lanes and pedestrian zones. "Is it bureaucratic to be concerned about the parrot's safety?" he asks. "The parrot's security is of paramount concern to the council." Both sides are refusing to back down and so the dispute is heading to the palace of justice. Coco's owner is hoping that the case will be laughed out of court.
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POPSAncient stone circle found in Skåne
"I suddenly saw how it all fitted together. My measurements confirmed all the theories," Lind explained. Lind explained how he stumbled over the site while out walking with friends. He later confirmed his instincts when flying over the area to photograph the site, which is on land owned by the county council. Heimdall's Stones was inspected on Friday by Thomas Romberg of the regional heritage board, who confirmed the site's distinct pattern, according to Skånska Dagbladet. The find has yet to be officially reported to the National Heritage Board (RAÄ). The site has also been inspected by archaeologist Nils-Axel Mörner, who described how he was taken aback with amazement. "Bob G Lind is to be congratulated", Mörner enthuses. Bob G Lind is reported to be something of a controversial figure and has had a long running feud with the National Heritage Board over the history of Sweden's hitherto largest stone circle site, Ale's Stones in Kåseberga, also on Österlen. TT/Peter
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POPSCIA man defends 'water-boarding' torture. Sounds just like every other torturer through history, I did not realise I was doing wrong at the time. "At the time, I felt water-boarding was something we needed to do," he told ABC News. "And as time has passed, and as September 11th has, you know, has moved farther and farther back into history, I think I've changed my mind." The interview is said by ABC News to be first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling top al-Qaeda suspects. The administration of US President George W Bush has always maintained it does not allow the use of torture.
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POPS4-year-old survives five-hour swim with crocodiles "Captain is a hard bushman and Daniel is following in his footsteps. They breed them tough out bush." He said Land Care Rangers on foot and on quad bikes searched for the boy on high land. "They decided to search the high lands because they thought there was no way he went into the croc waters." Mr Knight said the locals believed Daniel was lured by a spirit who visits him. Police from Wadeye Station drove 85km to join the search and arrived when community members had tracked Daniel to the creek. "He was OK, he was fine. He just wandered off in the middle of the bush," Sergeant Shane Taylor said.
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POPSSea surrenders ring 89 years on Mr Hamilton, 61, said: "We've dived the site several times but have never found any significant wreckage. "When we realised Peter had found something of such a personal nature we knew we had to try and return it to the family." Having found the ship's casualty list on the internet and with information from the 1901 census, the divers, with the help of Mr Hamilton's wife Sue, placed Mr Cubiss' parents in Yorkshire. They also discovered that following her husband's death, Florence had remarried. From there, a trawl of the telephone directory revealed a listing for a JM Cubiss in York. Mr Hamilton said it was with "a degree of trepidation" that he decided to call and see if he had any connection with Stanley's family.
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POPSIran leader dismisses US currency The dollar has weakened considerably against the euro and other currencies in the past 12 months. Its decline has affected the revenues of Opec members because most of them price and sell their oil exports in the US currency. Mr Ahmadinejad said that all Opec countries had showed interest in converting their cash reserves into other currencies. "They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper," he told reporters. But Saudi officials were against including any such language in the declaration. One is reported to have warned that it could add to the pressure on the dollar. However, in the communique Opec did make a reference to the debate, by committing itself to studying "ways and means of enhancing financial co-operation". Iran's oil minister said that this would allow the formation of a committee to study the dollar's affect on oil prices and investigate the possibility of alternative trading currencies.
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POPSEuropeans Complain about High Gas Prices Too! From a graph that couldn't be clipped. Price Increase Share of Price from Tax Britain +9.7% 66% France +9.8% 64% Germany +11.7% 64% Italy +7.4% 60% Spain +9.6% 52% United States +23.7% 14% Considering this the U.S. at $3.00 a gallon is paying (3 x 86%) = $2.86 for untaxed gas per gallon. 4.546 litres per gallon As of Sept. 2007 France is paying $1.28 per litre (x 4.546) which equals $5.82 per gallon. But their untaxed gasoline is costing $5.82 x .36 = $2.09 a gallon. That's less than what the U.S. pays per gallon - UNTAXED. So if anyone from Europe is dissatisfied with the price they pay for gasoline, look to your taxes first.
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POPSFBI will have anyone you call a terrorist detained The son-in-law was arrested upon landing in Florida. He was placed in handcuffs, interrogated and placed in a cell for 11 hours before being put on a flight back to Europe, the paper said. The FBI contacted Swedish intelligence agency Saepo, which discovered that the email tipping off the FBI had been sent from the father-in-law's computer. The father-in-law has been charged with aggravated libel. He has admitted sending the email, but said he didn't think "the authorities were so stupid that they would believe anything. But apparently they are." He said he "couldn't help the US authorities' paranoid reaction". HERE IS AN IDEA ; Bush is terrorist and Obama is really Bin laden, minus the beard. I can see the reactions now.
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POPSRecall ordered for toy that turns into drug The mother of 10-year-old Charlotte Lehane, one of the NSW children who fell ill, told ABC Radio she was "beside herself" when her daughter began vomiting and convulsing and passed out. It was reported that a 19-month-old boy was taken to hospital in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, after ingesting one of the toy's "magic beads". The boy's grandfather told ABC Radio that the child fell unconscious after swallowing some of the beads.
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POPSChessboard Killer Gets Life in Prison The Moscow city prosecutor who personally took part in the process said that he was satisfied with the sentence. "Justice has worked, the punishment ordered is what the accused party deserves," he said. He also reminded that the life sentence is the hardest possible penalty under the Russian criminal code since the country has a moratorium on capital punishment. The prosecutor added that investigators were still probing 11 more murders that Pichushkin had claimed he had committed. According to court materials, the first of 48 killings took place in 1992 and the last one in 2006. He also said that he planned to kill a total of 64 people - one for every check on the chessboard, prompting another nickname he got from the media - the "Chessboard Killer." He told investigators that the major reason why he had confessed was that another man got arrested over the murders and he could not stand someone else stealing his glory.
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