Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. “We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen,” said Melissa McIntire, 23. “There’s a lot of relief involved.” The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is [...]

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The founder of an Oakland food factory that laces everything from cookies to barbecue sauce with marijuana surrendered Thursday to face a federal drug charge.
Michael Martin, 33, was freed on $300,000 bond on the charge of conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
Federal drug agents last week raided Tainted Inc. in Oakland and arrested three of [...]

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Outside it was a sticky 111 degrees, but Ali Hamdan was shivering under two parkas as he sipped hot chocolate, surrounded by tables and chairs made of ice.
Chillout, its owners say, is the Middle East’s first ice lounge — the latest venture in this desert Gulf emirate, which has been transformed by a mania for [...]

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An Indonesian maid has been jailed for six days in Hong Kong for serving her boss a cup of water containing urine, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The 29-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of “administering poison or other destructive or noxious substance with intent to injure,” but insisted she had used the urine to treat a [...]

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A famous Chinese comic has been sued by a diet-tea drinker who accused him of making false claims in an ad for “Tibetan Secret Fat Elimination Tea”, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
A Beijing court accepted a suit from a plaintiff surnamed Zhang, claiming she was cheated by Guo Degang who advertised the tea with [...]

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An Italian film showing Jesus Christ drinking Coca-Cola sparked such strong protest from the soft-drinks giant that it blocked the film’s Easter weekend premiere, the film makers said.
The film “7 km from Jerusalem” is about an Italian advertising executive who is soul searching after losing his job and marriage. He flies to Jerusalem, where he [...]

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The mayor’s errant ceremonial first pitch on baseball’s opening day has inspired a sandwich with a fitting name: The Mark Mallory Screwball.
The ingredients for the sandwich at Izzy’s deli will be “any two meats tossed in the general direction of a bun or two pieces of bread.” The Screwball will be served with a potato [...]

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Sarajevo artists raised a monument to canned beef on Friday in a gesture ridiculing donors for providing such an unpopular food as humanitarian aid during the Bosnian capital’s 1992-95 siege.
“The Monument to the International Community” from the “Grateful Citizens of Sarajevo” reads an inscription at the marble foundation of the 1-metre-high golden can of beef.
Bosnians [...]

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A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, visited by the reporters over a two-day [...]

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A Chinese man bought carry-on wine and spirits worth a record 23,000 euros (15,600 pounds) at Paris airport’s duty-free shop — including a bottle of 1806 cognac that might have slipped through the fingers of Emperor Napoleon.
Tuesday’s 15-minute duty-free shopping spree included a 5,000-euro bottle of cognac dating back to 1806, when Napoleon ruled France, [...]

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