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Weiner, the candidate who infamously resigned from the U.S. Congress two years ago in a sexting scandal, unveiled a video announcing his mayoral candidacy and a campaign logo on his website on ...
Psy Imposter Crashes Cannes VIP Parties

A man pretending to be South Korean pop star Psy has blagged his way into some of the biggest parties at the Cannes film festival, it has emerged. The imposter bears a resemblance to the Gangnam Style singer and had been spotted at VIP events at the world famous festival. He partied with stars, picked up freebies, danced on a French TV show, and even signed a deal to take part in a Monaco ...
Rebecca St. James Looking for Wide Release of Her Film A Strange Brand of Happy

Christian singer-songwriter and actress Rebecca St. James will be in "A Strange Brand of Happy," a movie slated for limited release this fall, but St. James is hoping to change ...
Mike Wyatt Determination humor help overcome diagnosis

When it comes to testicular cancer, commercial real estate broker Mike Wyatt has been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Wyatt, an executive vice president in the Dallas office of Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, was diagnosed in 1994, at age 31. When you hear the C word, it strikes terror all the way through to your bone marrow, Wyatt said. Eighteen years ago, the world was a different place. ...
Sergio Garcia Tiger Woods fried chicken racism row takes fresh twist after coloured athletes comment

The racism row involving Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods took a fresh twist today following comments from European Tour chief executive George ...

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ForrestGump is one of those gloriously good-natured movies, the kind that views the world with such an open eye and optimistic attitude that you're willing to overlook how much it simplifies complex phenomena just because it makes you feel so good. The movie covers a broad swath of ... ...

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Hamburgers for life reward to man who helped Ohio kidnap victims

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown ...
Freedom to give away Teo girlfriend bobblehead Thursday

will present the boxed bobblehead to the first 1,000 fans through the gates. The box will be empty. "This will be the best kind of bobblehead a fan could get," Freedom General Manager Josh Anderson ...
Authorities Bar put dye in rubbing alcohol served it as scotch

That's one of the details released Thursday about an investigation dubbed "Operation Swill." Twenty-nine bars and restaurants in the state are accused of putting cheap booze in premium brand liquor bottles and selling it to patrons who thought they were buying the good stuff. Officials would not say which bar used the rubbing alcohol. But they say no health issues were ...
Strange Dark Matter Interactions Could Create Galactic Disks and Dark Light

A small percentage of the dark matter in our universe might be able to interact with itself through an as-of-yet unknown dark force, forming dark atoms and possibly even emitting dark light. Lest you think theoretical physicists have gone completely off the deep end, this form of dark matter, called double-disk dark matter, has some specific cosmological consequences that astronomers could ...
Norway crime novelist talks his way to live interview record

OSLO (Reuters) - Defying the stereotype of the tight-lipped Scandinavian, popular Norwegian crime writer Hans Olav Lahlum set the world record for the longest interview on Thursday after spending more than 30 non-stop hours chatting in an online ...

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Smallest known plant-eating dinosaur found in Canada

A team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have identified a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada.

Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) long, it weighed about 16 kg (30 lbs), comparable to a large turkey.

Albertadromeus lived in what is now southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous, about 77 million years ago.

Albertadromeus syntarsus means "Alberta runner with fused foot bones". Unlike its much larger ornithopod cousins, the duckbilled dinosaurs, its two fused lower leg bones would have made it a fast, agile two-legged runner. This animal is the smallest known plant-eating dinosaur in its ecosystem, and researchers hypothesize that it used its speed to avoid predation by the many species of meat-eating dinosaurs that lived at the same time.

Albertadromeus was discovered in 2009 by study co-author David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum as part an on-going collaboration with Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to investigate the evolution of dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of North America. ...