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Paris exotic dancers strike, say wages "miserable"

PARIS - Topless dancers at the renowned Crazy Horse night club in Paris have gone on strike, saying they are not being paid enough to take the shirts off their backs.

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Gambling, drinking monks raise hell in South Korea

SEOUL - Six leaders from South Korea's biggest Buddhist order have quit after secret video footage showed some supposedly serene monks raising hell, playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking. | Video

Lifestyle, South Korea, 11 May 2012

Divorce courts mirror society as more women pay alimony

NEW YORK - Tables have turned in U.S. divorce courts with more women paying their former husbands alimony and child support than ever before, according to U.S. lawyers.

U.S., Lifestyle, 10 May 2012

Afterlife comes at a discount for diehard Benfica fans

LISBON - Diehard fans of Portugal's Premier League soccer club Benfica can now rest in peace knowing they can be buried at a discount thanks to a deal signed between the club and the country's largest undertakers agency.

11 May 2012

"Subversive" newspaper crossword stirs Venezuela

CARACAS - A veteran Venezuelan crossword-writer has been accused of hiding a coded message to assassinate President Hugo Chavez's brother in the latest surreal twist to election year politics in the South American nation.

Venezuela 11 May 2012

Handshake ends S.African "Tempest in a D-cup" race row

JOHANNESBURG - Two models at the eye of a race storm that has exposed the thin veneer of social harmony in South Africa 18 years after the end of apartheid shook hands on Thursday and vowed to work towards Nelson Mandela's vision of a non-racial "Rainbow Nation".

Lifestyle 10 May 2012

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