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		<title><![CDATA[Hold your nose: garlic is best investment in China (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (Reuters) - The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[New EU president wins fans in Japan -- as a poet (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan -- as a poet rather than a politician.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hitler's favorite car makes comeback? (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN (Reuters) - A car expert says he has tracked down Hitler's favorite Mercedes to a garage near the town that helped the Austrian-born Fuehrer become a German citizen.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Using your plastic for plastic surgery.. (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CARACAS (Reuters) - Unfazed by a recession and rampant inflation, image-conscious Venezuelans show no signs of cutting back on the facelifts, liposuction, and breast augmentation that have become de rigueur beauty treatments.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:18:08 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Man robbed of $2 million bank withdrawal (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAIPEI (Reuters) - A man in Taiwan was robbed of more than $2 million in cash that he had just withdrawn from the bank, a police official said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Government to set terms for inquiry into Iraq abuse claims (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain will announce the terms of an independent inquiry into claims British soldiers murdered a number of Iraqis and tortured nine others after a battle in southern Iraq in May 2004.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:24:15 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Italy finds proposal to skip lunch hard to digest (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME (Reuters) - Food-loving Italy responded with indignation on Tuesday to a minister's comments that lunchbreaks -- still a sit-down ritual for many Italian workers -- are bad for waistlines and the economy, and should be skipped.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:55:19 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Police nab dozens of gambling seniors in Cyprus (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NICOSIA (Reuters) - Police in Cyprus detained dozens of elderly women for gambling, a popular but banned past-time on the east Mediterranean island.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Judge blocks law allowing guns in bars (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that allowed people to bring handguns into restaurants and bars.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:58 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cops on trail of "gingerbread town" vandals (Reuters)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OSLO (Reuters) - The people of Bergen rolled out the cookie dough Monday as local police tried to sniff out vandals who destroyed the Norwegian city's traditional Christmas decoration -- a town of gingerbread houses.]]></description>
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