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U.S. Couple Letting Coffee Drinkers Choose Baby Name

A U.S. couple are letting customers at a Starbucks coffee shop choose the name of their baby.

Twenty-five-year-old Jennifer James and 24-year-old Mark Dixon of West Haven tell the New Haven Register (http://bit.ly/1adT5d6 ) they have been struggling between two names for the boy they are expecting in September.

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Two-Headed Turtle Hatches at U.S. Zoo

A two-headed turtle has hatched at the San Antonio Zoo and officials have named her Thelma and Louise.

The female Texas cooter arrived June 18 and will go on display Thursday at the zoo's Friedrich Aquarium.

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Japan Man Sues NHK for Using too Many Foreign Words

A pensioner is suing Japan's national broadcaster for emotional distress, claiming the overuse of foreign loanwords has rendered many of its programs unintelligible, his lawyer said Thursday.

Hoji Takahashi, 71, is demanding 1.41 million yen ($14,000) in damages for the broadcaster's reliance on words borrowed from English, instead of their traditional Japanese counterparts.

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Barber, Customer Exchange Blows in Kuwait … over al-Asir!

Lebanese disputes have moved to a barber shop in Kuwait, where a heated debate over the latest Sidon clash erupted into a fistfight.

A Syrian customer voiced rejection of the Lebanese army's assault on Islamist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and his armed group, as the Lebanese barber backed the operation.

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Indian Journalist Reports Flood from Victim's Shoulders

An Indian television journalist reporting on the deadly floods that have swept northern India defended his decision on Tuesday to file a report while perched on a survivor's shoulders.

Narayan Pargaien, who works for the local News Express channel, told Indian media website newslaundry.com that the criticism he has faced since the video was posted online was unfair.

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Tableware Color Influences Food Flavor

British hospitals use red trays in a program to combat malnutrition, but may have chosen the worst possible color, according to a study Wednesday linking the tinge of tableware to food enjoyment.

Researchers from the University of Oxford contributed data to the growing body of evidence that the color, size, weight and shape of eating utensils, cups and plates have a big influence on what people taste.

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Did JFK Tell Berlin he Was a Jam Doughnut?

Legend has it that U.S. president John F. Kennedy made a whopping grammatical gaffe with his iconic declaration "Ich bin ein Berliner" 50 years ago on Wednesday, essentially telling his audience -- and the world -- "I am a jam doughnut".

The historical lore was that JFK, in his first faltering words of German, was wrong to use the indefinite article "ein" and should have said "Ich bin Berliner" to declare his solidarity with the embattled Cold War city.

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High-Tech Tombstones Let Loved Ones Live on, Virtually

Rick Miller kneels in front of a grave and uses his cell phone to scan a small barcode on a tombstone. Within seconds, he's looking at photos and videos of a lost loved one.

But that's not all.

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Monica Lewinsky Negligee, Letters in U.S. Auction

A black negligee formerly belonging to Monica Lewinsky is among items once owned by the infamous White House intern to be auctioned in Los Angeles this week.

Other items include a signed letter from Bill Clinton addressed to Lewinsky's lover and a letter from Lewinsky including the line "am I good at lying through my teeth or what."

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Australia PM Knits Toy Kangaroo for Royal Baby

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revealed she is knitting a red kangaroo for the first baby of Prince William and his wife Kate.

The nation's first woman leader, battling a tough final week in parliament ahead of September elections amid renewed speculation that she could be ousted from within her own party, found time to tell the Australian Women's Weekly she had set herself the task of making the toy.

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