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Wedding Photo Becomes Symbol of S. Korea MERS Scare

A South Korean couple's special day has become an unexpected symbol of the country's MERS health scare, after a joke wedding photo with their guests wearing surgical face masks went viral.

The picture that flooded South Korean social networking sites showed the young couple formally posing with dozens of family and friends -- with nearly everyone's face obscured by the white masks.

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Kiwis Stirred Up over 'Crapola' New Milo Recipe

New Zealanders are boiling mad over a recipe tweak to their favorite chocolate milk drink Milo, labeling the new taste "crapola" and "disgusting".

Milo has been a Kiwi favorite for more than 80 years -- mixed with either hot or cold milk, and sometimes, when parents aren't looking, scooped up in spoonfuls straight from the tin.

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Ronaldo's Mum Stopped at Madrid Airport with 55,000 Euros in Handbag

The mother of Cristiano Ronaldo, the highest-paid footballer in the world, was stopped by Spain's civil guard from returning home to Portugal with 55,000 euros in her handbag, it emerged Monday.

Dolores Aveiro, the Real Madrid star's 61-year-old mother, had been waiting to take a flight out of Madrid late April when her hand luggage was inspected and the cash discovered, a spokeswoman for the Civil Guard said.

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Spinnaker Sponsorship Upsets Pompey Fans

Plans to repaint Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower as part of a sponsorship deal with Dubai-based Emirates Airlines have not gone down well with fans of the English city's football club.

As part of a £3.5 million ($5.3 million) deal over five years with the city council, the plan is for the Spinnaker Tower to be repainted red and white as part of a naming rights agreement with Emirates.

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Bull Yak Flees at Sight of Bear, Leaving behind Cows, Calves

When a curious brown bear showed up at an Anchorage area farm, the cows in a small yak herd there defiantly surrounded the calves.

But not the lone bull, Stormy: he sprinted away.

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Man Baked Potato, Raked Leaves during Break-in

A New Mexico man is facing charges after police say he walked into an unlocked home, stole car keys and stunned a resident who found him baking a potato and raking leaves.

Patrick Lynn Waits, 45, was arrested early Tuesday following a bizarre chain of events that confused residents of a Hobbs home, the Hobbs News-Sun reports (http://goo.gl/c3Bwsg).

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Three Tunes Battle to Become New Swiss National Anthem

The lofty tones fill a wood cabin on the outskirts of the emerald green meadow considered the birthplace of Switzerland, as three songs compete to become the country's new national anthem.

The choir on the screen enthusiastically belts out the tunes, all celebrating high-minded values like freedom, democracy and solidarity.

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Royals Had their Cake but You Can't Eat it

Slices from the cakes of five British royal weddings dating back up to 42 years have been put up for auction -- accompanied by a health warning that they are "not suitable for consumption".

The slices were collected by Queen Elizabeth II's late chauffeur Leonard Massey, who kept them in the original packaging offered to wedding guests with monograms to celebrate the unions.

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Man Called a Great Impostor is Charged with Identity Theft

Police investigating bad checks say they found much more: A Detroit-area impostor who inspired a 1989 award-winning film was posing like someone else — again.

William Street Jr., 64, was charged in federal court with fraud and identity theft after he was found with documents and a white doctor's coat with the name of a Maryland man, William Benn Stratton.

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Japan Firm Sells Human Pillow Cellphone Holder

What's shaped like your friend and even sounds like your friend, but isn't actually your friend? Why, a human-shaped pillow with a slot in its head for a cellphone, of course.

One Japanese venture is looking to solve that problem of feeling distant when speaking on the telephone by offering cushions that look a little like small people, with a skin-like texture, that can hold your mobile device.

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