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Japanese officials say more than 230,000 people listed as being over the age of 100 cannot be found.
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A trio of German musicians have set a new world record for busking by performing for 24 hours at the Popkomm music industry trade fair in Berlin.
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Scientists have revealed the secret to how a man can attract women on the dance floor: it's all in the way he moves his neck and torso and the speed at which he moves his right knee.
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A 67-year-old man has pushed his lawnmower up the Queensland coast from the Gold Coast to Cairns to raise money for charity.
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A Belgian maker of French fries has set a new world record for non-stop chip-making after frying mountains of potato strips for 83 consecutive hours.
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Guinness World Records has dubbed a 70-centimetre-tall Colombian as the world's shortest living man.
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The owners of a hotel in central Victoria have been shocked to find a gold nugget in a fireplace.
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To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but school children in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which project erotic images.
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A Japanese man drove the wrong way down an expressway for 90 kilometres and broke through five police barricades because his cat had died, he told police.
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A stuntman, known as the French Spiderman, has denied putting lives at risk by scaling a Sydney building.
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Divers salvaged the world's oldest drinkable beer from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, just days after work began to retrieve dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, local officials said.
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A huge traffic jam stretching at least 120 kilometres has reappeared in northern China, with thousands of cargo trucks stuck in a bottleneck.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband wants to plastinate the Hollywood star's body and put it on show after her death.
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A retired Chinese coal miner has found an underground solution to the country's sky-high housing costs, by carving out a new home beneath the shack he lives in, state media reported.
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Hundreds of police and officials in Japan have been deployed to catch a band of monkeys responsible for attacking more than 60 people.
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A New Zealand pub has been painstakingly moved 40 metres up an Auckland hill to make way for a road tunnel.
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Hundreds are expected at an outback Queensland town for its International Yabby Races.
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Police charge the man known as the French Spiderman after he climbs to the top of a skyscraper in Sydney.
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A horse from South Australia has won the Betoota Cup at the town's race meeting in far south-west Queensland.
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A toilet belonging to Beatles legend John Lennon sold at auction in Liverpool on Saturday for 9,500 pounds ($16,400) - nearly 10 times its guide price, organisers said.
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Airport customs in Thailand have found a two-month-old tiger stashed in a bag which was checked in for an international passenger flight, authorities say.
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A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to burning down his family home after his mother threw away some of his favourite robot toys.
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Star Wars creator George Lucas has filed a $US5 million trademark lawsuit against a company marketing a technology that allows users to control computer applications with their minds.
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A major Japanese airport has been forced to close for hours after the pilot of a small plane forgot to lower his landing gear while touching down.
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Ambulance officers got more than they bargained for during a rescue at Millfield near Cessnock, in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
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