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U.S. Judge Orders Name Change for Baby Called Messiah

A judge in the southern U.S. state of Tennessee has ordered parents who named their son Messiah to change it.

"The word Messiah is a title and it's a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ," Judge Lu Ann Ballew said in the ruling last week, according to the newspaper The Tennessean.

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U.S. Knitters Cover Warhol Bridge with 'Yarn Bomb'

More than 1,800 knitters have covered the Andy Warhol Bridge in the U.S. with colorful yarn.

Volunteers worked all weekend to attach 580 blanket-size, hand-knitted panels to the pedestrian walkways on the bridge in Pittsburgh, the city where Warhol was born.

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Taxi-Driving Norway PM's Passengers Were Paid

Some passengers were paid to take part in a buzz-generating video which showed Norway's prime minister undercover as a taxi driver probing voters' concerns, his party admitted Monday.

Just one month before Norway's legislative elections that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenbeg's center-left coalition appears likely to lose, a video was on Sunday released showing him wearing a taxi driver's uniform and sunglasses, sitting at the wheel as he drives passengers around Oslo.

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Beijing Man Builds Rock Villa on Top of Apartment Tower

An eccentric Beijing resident has built a huge house among what looks like a pile of rocks dotted with trees on top of a 26-storey apartment block in the capital, reports said Monday.

Neighbors have complained about China's latest architectural oddity, which covers more than 1,000 square meters (10,000 square feet), saying they fear it could cause the structure to collapse on top of them, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

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Norway PM Turns Taxi Driver to Find out 'What People Really Think'

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg revealed Sunday that he has gone undercover as a taxi driver for an afternoon, in a bid to find out voters' real concerns.

"It's important for me to hear what people really think. If there's one place where people say what they think, it's in the taxi," he said in a video posted on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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Navy Information Chief Crusades for 'Plain English'

The U.S. Navy's information chief says there's a battle to be fought, but not the usual kind.

It's time, Rear Admiral John Kirby says, to torpedo "jargon and gibberish."

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Xinhua Falls for 'Bezos Bought Post by Mistake' Spoof

China's official news agency Xinhua has reported as true a satirical story that Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post newspaper by accident.

The publication on Xinhua's website came days after it posted a photo gallery of images supposedly showing a woman being executed by lethal injection -- which instead appeared to have come from a fetish site.

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Drone Delivers Beer Not Bombs at S.Africa Music Festival

Revelers at a South African outdoor rock festival no longer need to queue to slake their thirst -- a flying robot will drop them beer by parachute.

After clients place an order using a smartphone app, a drone zooms 15 meters (50 feet) above the heads of the festival-goers to make the delivery.

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Dogs Yawn along with Their Masters, Japan Researchers Say

Tired dog lovers who think their pet pooch is yawning right along with them may just be right, according to a Japanese study.

Dubbed "contagious yawning", the new research says man's best friend can sense human fatigue and, in a possible show of empathy, will join humans in a big yawn.

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Barefoot Boy Loses Toe Stroking a Cow

An eleven-year-old boy in Austria wearing no shoes lost a toe when the cow he was trying to stroke stepped on his foot, police said Thursday.

The German boy, on holiday in Tyrol in western Austria, was playing with other children in an Alpine meadow on Wednesday evening when the animal approached them.

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