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ABC's Gabriel O'Rorke reports from London: Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People From Around the World Quotes of the Week "They were dressed like nuns, carrying crosses, but wearing thongs under their skirts and showing people their bottoms and the rest"...

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May 29, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Hundreds of Soldiers Honor Two of their Own

Mike Boettcher reports from Afghanistan: 2:30 am Friday morning and our ride to the Bagram passenger terminal didn’t show up. With all of our equipment it was too far to walk and there wasn’t another soul out at that ungodly...

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May 19, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Summer Fighting Season Begins

Mike Boettcher reports from the frontlines of Afghanistan: Along the border between Nuristan and Konar provinces in eastern Afghanistan sits Camp Bostick. Just two miles from the Pakistan border, Bostick controls several smaller Combat Outposts that come under frequent attack....

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May 19, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Weird and Wonderful Weekly

Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People From Around the World By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London Quotes of the Week "Super-balanced make-up. All over again, like painting a wall" -- instructions left in a cab on how to achieve the perfect...

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May 16, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (0)

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Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People From Around the World By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London Quotes of the Week "They wanted to call me grandpa but daddy is better, don't you think?" – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, explaining the...

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May 8, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (1)

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Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People From Around the World By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London Quotes of the Week “Had a massive ice cream fight dressing room based, cost me $2,000.” -- Lily Allen wrote this update on Twitter after...

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April 25, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (0)

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Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People From Around the World By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London Quotes of the Week "This is the first cloned camel in the world," --Nisar Wani, a researcher at the Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, about...

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April 17, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Homo Sapiens for Supper?

By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London A 32-year-old German woman jumped into a polar bear enclosure at feeding time Saturday. Six zoo-keepers fought for her life, using all their efforts to prevent the four inhabitants from eating the woman as...

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April 13, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (13)

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Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People From Around the World By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London Quotes of the Week "We didn't pay 37 million zlotys [$11 million] for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live...

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April 10, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Field Trip to the DMZ and North Korea

By Lama Hasan, ABC News correspondent, North Korea As we drive down a South Korean freeway lined with cherry blossoms, the landscape quickly changes to barbed wire and fences dotted with military outposts. Less than an hour’s drive from the...

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April 10, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (3)