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Current topics
Ireland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen, who has been unexpectedly and publicly hanged in Dublin.
- The unexpected public hanging of Ireland's Taoiseach, Brian Cowen (pictured), occurs in Dublin, following months of economic uncertainty.
- NASA reports a shower of diamonds over the Republic of Sudan.
- German scientists unearth a row of suckers belonging to the ancient Octopoda order.
- A revolutionary new online tanning service receives one million hits within two months of being established.
- Henry Allingham of the United Kingdom credits cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women for his seemingly impossible immortality.
- A newspaper discovers that pay-per-view porn is amongst a number of unusual things being purchased by British MPs on their claimed expenses.
- A manufacturer is requested to increase production by over 300,000 in one week following the launch of two Turkish missiles at a former oil giant.