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Tight spot for Thai boy

Rescuers had a tricky job in Thailand, after they had to pull free a little boy who got his head stuck in a tiny gap under a cement wall.

Stolen puppies give the game away

Thieves who carried out a pet shop heist in Australia were given away by their haul - 17 squealing puppies who were then rescued by police.

Girls grumble over Gaddafi evening

The Libyan leader's 'convert to Islam' message to Italian women recruited by an agency for what many reportedly thought would be a VIP party.

Thief gets trapped, drops trousers

A thief gets himself stuck in a tiny window while trying to break into a supermarket in Almancil, southern Portugal.

Whale's underwater Xmas treat

A scuba-diving Santa Claus gives an early Christmas treat to a Beluga whale at the Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium on the outskirts of Tokyo.

France's human hamster hotel

A hotel in France gives guests the chance to live like a hamster - where you can eat grain, run in a giant wheel and sleep on hay.

Wingsuit skydivers break record

Looking more like a flock of birds flying south for the winter - a team of skydivers break a new record for wing-suit formation skydiving.

Hi-tech holy water controls H1N1

Italian worshippers use an electronic holy water dispenser to help prevent the spread of swine flu at a church at Capriano Briosco, about 50 kilometres north of Milan.

Japan putters with new bra

Triumph, maker of the eco, solar and recyclable bras, is teeing up its latest novelty in links-crazed Japan with eyes on a different green - golf.

Germany's Xmas post office opens

It might not be Lapland, but the children don't mind, as they start sending their letters to St Nicholas.

Hero medal for Kalashnikov's 90th

The Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle Mikhail Kalashnikov has been honoured at the Kremlin in a ceremony to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Fall of the chocolate Berlin wall

A Paris confectioner knocks down his own Berlin Wall - made of chocolate and weighing over a ton.

Japan's high-tech cemeteries

Japan, known for cutting-edge technology as well as ancestor worship, is merging the two with the latest in funerals - card-activated crypts.

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Forklift driver's alcohol pile-up

CCTV video captures the moment a bungling forklift truck driver destroys an estimated $205,000 worth of bottled alcohol in a warehouse in Moscow, Russia.