Oddly Enough
Hitler's food taster feared death with every morsel
BERLIN - Margot Woelk spent the last few years of World War Two eating lavish meals and fearing that every mouthful could mean death.
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Not a vulture but a drone: South Africa police detain cameraman
PRETORIA - South African police on Friday detained the owner of a radio-controlled helicopter drone carrying a camera that was filming scenes around the Pretoria hospital where ailing anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is being treated.
Two bronze animal heads, stolen 153 years ago, returned to China
BEIJING - The family of a French billionaire and art collector eased a sore point in history on Friday by returning two bronze animal heads, among Chinese treasures pillaged from a Beijing palace by French and British troops more than a century and a half ago.
Seattle fireworks too scary for baby bald eagles
SEATTLE - Just because they're both emblems of American pride doesn't mean fireworks and bald eagles should share the same skyline.
Japan PM Abe hops and flips in voter-wooing game app
TOKYO - It's a bird, it's a plane ... It's a cartoon version of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, hopping and somersaulting his way through the sky in a smartphone game app his party hopes will lure young voters ahead of a July 21 election.
Singapore 'Hello Kitty' fanciers bare claws in quest for toy
SINGAPORE - Singapore residents braved hazardous air, bid hundreds of dollars and queued for hours to lay their hands on a special Hello Kitty stuffed toy, swept up in a craze for the mouthless Japanese cat that peaked this week in the city-state.
The last huzzah?
Today, this site freezes in time. You can always revisit it for a little nostalgia, like that old amusement park in the creepy part of town, with all the chains and cobwebs...


