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Casino Royale To Be 21st Bond Movie

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The 21st official James Bond movie will be Casino Royale, it has been confirmed.

The news came on the day that outgoing Bond Pierce Brosnan thanked his fans for all their support over the years.

Martin 'GoldenEye' Campbell is being lined up to direct the new flick, due for release in 2006, and is meeting up with writers and producers to finalise the details.

David Niven starred in a Bond spoof of the same name in 1967.

However, the search for the new Bond continues with Jude Law, Clive Owen and Ewan McGregor all believed to be in the running.

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Indian Beheaded For Murder In Saudi Arabia

An Indian convicted of burning a compatriot to death was beheaded in Aseer in southern Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

G Krishna allegedly burnt one Madrasa Iqbal to death while the latter was asleep following some quarrel.

The Saudi authorities do not inform the foreign missions ahead of the execution of expat convicts, according to Indian embassy sources. This has made it difficult for embassies to keep track of or defend those accused of serious crimes, they added.

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Golden Palace Casino Buys Ad Space On A Preggo Womans Belly

Golden Palace Casinos has done it again. After successfully buying stuff like Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese, Weeping Jesus Rock, and Naughty Kids Gifts from eBay they have bought ad space on a pregnant woman’s belly for $4050.

As the winning bidder, GoldenPalace.com now has access to 8-month-pregnant Amber Rainey's stomach, and intends to use natural Henna to temporarily tattoo their web address on her belly. Amber proclaims on her eBay auction page that people cant help but look at a pregnant woman's bump. Obviously GoldenPalace.com agrees.

GoldenPalace.com will need to make the most of their ad space as Amber's baby is due on March 21.

Interested in finding out what else an oddity Golden Palace Casions has bought? Check the long list here.

Miami cops find millions of missing nickels buried in backyard

Police hit paydirt Friday, digging up 3.6 million nickels that disappeared along with a trucker who was supposed to deliver them to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans.

Authorities found the $180,000 in coins buried in a one-metre hole in the backyard of a suburban-Miami home. The nickels, still stored in their Federal Reserve bags, were in a wooden box, covered with a plastic tarp.

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Cookie Girls Made To Pay $900

Two teenage girls who surprised their neighbors with homemade cookies late one night were ordered to pay nearly $900 in medical bills for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital.

Judge Doug Walker declined Thursday to award punitive damages, saying he did not believe the girls acted maliciously.

Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, 18, baked the chocolate chip and sugar cookies one night last July. They made packages with a half-dozen cookies each and added large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, “Have a great night” and were signed with their first initials: “Love, The T and L Club.” Then they set off to make their deliveries.

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Can You Pee Yourself Out Of Anything - Debunked

A few days ago we had reported about how a man urinated himself out of an avalanche.

Now it seems that it was an hoax story picked up by an over zealous reporter. The story has been circulating in that country as an e-mail joke even before the heavy snows described in the articles occurred.

Read more about the debunked story here.

So now the so called brave slovak has stumbled from a hero to a zero.

Floating Hotels For Super Bowl

Floating Hotels For Super Bowl

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The city signed contracts with three cruise lines, and paid $11.7 million to rent five ships to use as temporary hotels along the river, which runs through the heart of the city.

"This is the epitome of what we were hoping for -- and that was a big ship in our downtown skyline," said Tom Petway, co-chairman of the Jacksonville Super Bowl Host Committee.

Petway was one of the first to board one of the ships, the Radisson Seven Seas Navigator. Exploring his 1,100-square-foot suite Wednesday, he declared: "This is really exceptional."

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Clowns Offer to Raise Ailing Pope's Spirits

Pope John Paul may have the best medical care at

Rome

's Gemelli hospital, but there are some who think a red nose or two may cheer up the ailing Pontiff.

Hospital clowns Dr Little Cake and Dr White Cabbage told reporters they wanted to take some time out from their usual work on the children's wards and try their jokes on the Pope.

"We want to go and see him, if he'll have us," said one of the clowns, wearing a plastic red nose and a white laboratory coat decorated in colorful cartoon characters.

"After all it's our job to bring a smile wherever there is suffering," she added.

The two clowns were on their morning rounds in the Gemelli Friday when they were mobbed by journalists camped out at the hospital awaiting word of the Pontiff's health.

Soaking up the attention, Dr White Cabbage declared confidently that it was only a matter of time before they got a papal audience. "You can go everywhere with a red nose," he said, flipping up his joke tie for the cameras.

White House Searching For New Chef

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So after searching for a new Secretary of State, Attorney General, National Security Advisor, Homeland Security Czar the White House is now looking for a chef.

Aspiring celebrity chefs, take note: Walter Scheib is packing up his spatula after nearly 11 years at the White House stove, and the president needs a replacement.

Scheib is resigning "to pursue other opportunities," Rachel Sunbarger, a spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush, said Friday.

"The residence staff has just begun the process of looking for a new chef," Sunbarger said, and it's unclear how long the search will take. So Scheib will keep cooking until his replacement is in place.

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