| German party mistakenly hands out porn pens to kids
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| Reuters - To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which project erotic images. |
| Tourist treat - famous toilets
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 Reuters - For tourists tired of traditional sightseeing tours, one Berlin tour guide is offering something altogether different: a tour of Berlin's public conveniences.
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| Firm can't fire man for 1.8 cent theft
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| Reuters - A German company that fired a man for the theft of 1.8 euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity had no grounds for sacking him, a court ruled, dismissing the firm's appeal against his reinstatement. |
| Koranic teachers arrested over child begging
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| Reuters - Senegalese security forces have arrested seven Koranic teachers for forcing children to panhandle, a police official said on Friday, days after the West African state announced a crack down on public begging. |
| Man bites police over a pet peeve
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 Reuters - Police arrested an 82-year-old man after he bit and kicked officers who had arrived to mediate in a dispute with a neighbor over a domestic pet.
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| Canadian parents more lenient than Italians and French
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| Reuters - Canadian parents are more lenient with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy, according to a new study. |
| Finance Ministry says defrauded by staffer
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| Reuters - The Dutch Finance Ministry Thursday acknowledged it was defrauded out of more than 160,000 euros ($204,800) earlier this year by an employee of the ministry unit that handles the state's financing needs. |
| Dutch colleges angry over sex job ads for freshmen
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| Reuters - A number of Dutch colleges are considering legal action against the publisher of a move-in guide for new freshmen, after the company included an ad recruiting students for jobs as online sex workers. |
| Cup of tea forces jet to make emergency landing
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| Reuters - A British airplane en route to Poland was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after a 56-year-old woman spilled a hot cup of tea on herself, German police said on Wednesday. |
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