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Always be reminded that elsewhere in the world, things are just as crazy, strange - promise!
- "an unusual disarmament drive involving a military marching band and a prize draw to win Hyundai hatchbacks, flat-screen TVs and iPads" - this is what a private Lybian TV station organised last weekend in Benghazi, and it seemed to work - "Kalashnikovs, anti-aircraft guns, rocket-propelled grenades and even a couple of tanks were handed in" to loud hoorays!
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- the Danes have decided to take their low birth rate in hand by "offering to provide two hours' free childcare each week so that parents can go home to bed and make more babies". Wonder how the child carers will explain that one to the kids....?
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- those responsible for the new Saudi Arabian Ikea catalogue, came in for some mighty flak when they removed all women from this version of the catalogue - asking for trouble from the Women's Rights Movement
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- and from now on, don't take a sip of your coke or nibble at your take-away pizza anywhere near sites that are of "particular historic or architectural value" in Rome - you will be fined, heavily. It's part of a new move to "restore respect" in that beautiful City. Like this one
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Thanks to
The Week for highlighting these
stories
cheers
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