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ALL Offbeat - USA OffbeatPolish researchers say they have solved an ancient mystery and identified the remains of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
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Permanent Link: Found: Body of Copernicus, man who revealed the solar system
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Four Norwegian beaver families arrive in the UK as part of an historic plan to reintroduce the mammals to Scotland.
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Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy says the judges of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing should go.
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Permanent Link: Sack the Strictly judges, says a government minister
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The Pied Piper's services might be needed again in Hamelin, northern Germany, as the town's famous rats have returned.
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Reading, chatting and texting are among the favourite activities of Britons on the toilet, a survey suggests.
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Permanent Link: What a way to go. British toilet habits revealed
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A group of kayakers are filmed as they slide 300ft down a dam spillway in Wales but have been condemned by a water company.
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Permanent Link: Extreme kayakers condemned after taking on 300ft-high dam
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The team behind Manchester's troubled B of the Bang sculpture pays the city council £1.7m in an out-of-court settlement.
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Permanent Link: Row over sculpture ends in £1.7m settlement by its designers
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Lord Mandelson says it would be nice to be asked to take part in BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.
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Permanent Link: Mandelson admits Strictly 'envy'
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Father Christmas can cross Croatia off his list, after the prime minister banned state firms from having parties and giving presents, due to the credit crunch.
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A Japanese company launches an online slot machine game featuring the mug-shots of the country's most wanted.
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A manhunt is under way in west Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.
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Permanent Link: Inmate escapes German jail by mailing himself out in a box
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Thieves have made off with a 200-year-old church in central Russia, Orthodox Church officials say.
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Permanent Link: Russia church in remote region 'stolen by thieves'
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A man hanging from wall in Cairo sparks a brief emergency, before rescuers find it its just a German art exhibit.
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Permanent Link: Cairo bemused by German art stunt
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Canadian authorities release a man weighing 450lb (205kg) - who has been deemed too big for his prison cell.
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The European Commission scraps controversial rules that prevent oddly-shaped fruit and vegetables being sold in the EU.
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Permanent Link: EU slices up 'ugly fruit' rules
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A former drug addict sends a letter of apology to a shop he stole cigarettes from seven years ago.
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Permanent Link: 'I'm sorry I stole from you' - thief sends apology and money to shop
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A pilot who suddenly went blind at 15,000ft is guided in to land by RAF crews from Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire.
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Permanent Link: Pilot who went blind at 15,000ft lands safely thanks to the RAF
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A woman in Arizona runs a mile with a rabid fox biting her arm, before she can free herself and take the animal for testing.
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Permanent Link: Attacked jogger takes fox for run
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A craze of naming new babies Obama hits Kenya, where his father came from.
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An art lover who bought a drawing by Scots artist Joan Eardley finds a valuable painting hidden inside the frame.
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Permanent Link: Valuable painting found inside sketch
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