A Belgian postman who lightened his mailbag by holding back thousands of letters and packages at home for up to five years now faces dismissal.
“What was strange in this case was that he kept them all in his flat and that, while he opened a lot, he appears to have left the contents in the [...]

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A 23-year-old woman who boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in a short skirt for a flight to Arizona says she was led off the plane for wearing an outfit that was considered too skimpy.
Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee asked her to leave her seat while the plane was preparing to leave San Diego’s Lindbergh [...]

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Want to stay safe on the roads? Then avoid listening to Guns N Roses, Meat Loaf and Bruce Springsteen behind the wheel.
The trio are among the artists featured on a top 10 of tracks that get people’s blood pumping and in the mood to drive aggressively.
Some 1,700 voters have so far responded to an online [...]

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A fugitive mouse delayed the departure of a Japan-bound airliner for more than four hours Sunday as technicians hunted down the potential threat, airline officials said.
A passenger spotted the white mouse running on the floor of the plane on an initial leg of the Vietnam Airlines flight, prompting a hunt by about a dozen technicians [...]

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Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don’t drive, and they don’t want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold.
Their solution: “Hey, cabbie.”
They met taxi driver Douglas Guldeniz when they hailed his cab after a shopping trip several weeks ago.
They [...]

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Northwest Airlines cancelled a flight set to leave from Las Vegas to Detroit after the captain cursed on a cell phone in a bathroom, then swore at one of the 180 passengers on the plane, officials said on Saturday.
“He used what was described to me as rude language,” Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal [...]

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A dentist was found guilty on Thursday of urinating in his surgery sink and using dental tools meant for patients to clean his fingernails and ears.
A medical tribunal said it was satisfied the evidence showed 51-year-old Alan Hutchinson, who routinely did not wear gloves or wash his hands, had risked the health of “himself, staff [...]

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Yum Brands Inc. has hired an urban pest control expert to review standards of its New York City restaurants, it said on Friday, a week after television cameras filmed rats scurrying around a KFC/Taco Bell.
Yum, the operator of the KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut chains, also said it was working with the health department [...]

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The missing clock didn’t stop postal customer Al Cunningham from noticing the amount of time spent waiting for service. “It’s always long here,” said Cunningham, 49, an insurance adjuster and former postal employee who was standing in line at the Watson Post Office in Fort Worth.
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The thief had the bank-robbing part down, putting his finger in his pocket to simulate a gun at a northeast Nevada bank on Tuesday. It was the getaway that proved a bit more difficult.
The suspect, identified as Keith Woodall, 65, made it only about 30 feet outside the downtown branch of the Great Basin Bank [...]

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