AN Italian couple caught having sex in a church confessional box while morning Mass was being said has repented and made peace with the local bishop.

The man and woman, in their early 30s, were detained by police earlier this month after they had made love in the confessional box in the cathedral in northern Cesena.

They were cautioned for obscene acts in public and disturbing a religious function.

Their lawyer said they had been drinking all night and...

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LONDON: The heir to the throne, Prince Charles, has paid off a family debt incurred more than 350 years ago - but was spared the accumulated interest that could have run into tens of thousands of pounds.

Charles on Tuesday handed over £453.15 ($938) that King Charles II had failed to pay to the Clothiers Company in Worcester in 1651.

The king had commissioned uniforms for his troops to fight the republican forces of Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester the same...

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AN Israeli politician has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays
Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party said the only way to prevent the earthquakes was for parliament to stop liberalising laws concerning homosexuals, AP reported.

“Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which the Knesset (parliament) gives legitimacy, to sodomy,'' Mr Benizri said.

Mr Benizri said earthquake damage could...

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THE world's fattest man, according to the Guinness Book of Records, today proudly announced he has lost 230kg - nearly half his original weight - in less time than doctors had expected.



"I'm going to throw a big party," Manuel Uribe said.

"I'm getting out of my house and going for a walk" in Monterrey, where he lives in northern Mexico.

Mr Uribe,...

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A SERB farmer used a grinding machine to cut in half his farm tools and machines to comply with a court ruling that he must share all his property with his ex-wife, local media reported today.

Branko Zivkov, 76, told Belgrade daily Kurir he had been ready to give his wife Vukadinka her equal share of everything earned during their 45-year marriage, but was furious at being asked to give away half his farming equipment.

Instead, he bought a grinder and cut in two all...

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