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Squatter Spends A Month At The Movies

Cinema managers in Gloucestershire, England, knew that something bigger than a mouse had made its home behind the screen when they discovered a mattress, a bicycle, a cycle helmet, a pair of slippers and a wad of Polish money.

It may have been a cut above sleeping in a doorway, but only just. The mysterious squatter in his comfortable, secret burrow will have had to endure three showings of Pride and Prejudice every day, plus Wedding Crashers, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of Were-Rabbit, The Dukes of Hazzard and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - and all of them back to front.

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You Think Gas Prices Are High? Try An Eco-Friendly, $3.5 M Skycar

If that Hummer is draining your cash at the gas pump, Neiman Marcus Group Inc. has the perfect holiday gift: A fuel-efficient, $3.5 million "Skycar" that flies 350 miles per hour and burns environmentally friendly alcohol.

The luxury retailer's annual Christmas Book of gifts for the rich and richer shows no signs of scaling back in times of economic strain -- although there are a few stocking stuffers such as a $15 paperweight for those on a tighter budget.

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Teen To Tightrope Over Tigers

A Chinese teenager is to attempt five tightrope walking records - 25 metres above lions and tigers in a Bejing zoo.

Shate'er plans to "walk, run and dance" along the 200-metre steel cable above the animals at Beijing Wildlife Park.

He hopes to set five tightrope records - the 100 metre dash, walking backwards with eyes blindfolded, non-stop walking for 2,000 metres, and a 200 metre walk without a balancing stick, reports China Daily.

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Airforce Compensates Santa For Blasted Reindeer

The Danish airforce has paid damages to one of the country's many professional Santa Clauses after a blast from a low-flying fighter jet left Rudolph the reindeer lifeless.

Santa, whose real name is Olovi Nikkanoff and who lives on the central Danish island of Fyn, told TV2 station that he was devastated last February when he discovered his reindeer's body.

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Sweden's New Funeral Rite - Bodies Freeze-Dried, Powdered And Made Into Tree Mulch

A town in Sweden plans to become the first place in the world where corpses will be disposed of by freeze-drying, as an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial. Jonkoping, in southern Sweden, is to turn its crematorium into a so-called promatorium next year.

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Man Raped At Central Florida Resort

Police in Kissimmee, Fla., arrested a man late Wednesday on suspicion he raped a man inside a restroom of a vacation resort.

Investigators in Osceola County said an unidentified man was attacked in the pool area of the Westgate Vacation Villas located at 2770 N. Old Lake Wilson Road Tuesday night at about 10:30 p.m.

Deputies said Ronald Burns allegedly followed the man into the restroom, performed the sex act on him, thanked him and then left.

"When the victim went into the restroom the suspect followed him into the restroom and that is where the act occurred," Osceola County spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain said.

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