Guinness guzzling camel crashes Xmas party
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Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.
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Three nights before Christmas the Monegasque air was rent with the sound of the premature tearing of wrapping paper.
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NEW YORK - Matthew Broderick's vacation in Ireland was marred when he suffered a broken collarbone after falling off a horse Sunday, his publicist, Simon Halls, told The Associated Press.
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Science & environment: Northern Ireland's biggest tourist attraction could fall victim to global warming, National Trust warns
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A pair of reindeer that were on display at a Christmas attraction in Britain wreaked havoc when they jumped at the opportunity to make a dash for it.
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Sport: 3.45 GMT: Champion jockey taken to hospital after injuring his back in a fall
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Christmas drinking could have led to unprotected sex and a record number of abortions last month, says a charity.
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Santa Claus&#39;s sleigh is in the air at Yuletide, usually a nasty nip also, and the third component of high theatrics was again on show in the King George VI Chase here yesterday.
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Around 30 people were injured when a grandstand collapsed during a religious festival in northeast England, police said.
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Cunard confirmed yesterday that almost 80 passengers have been taken ill with diarrhoea and vomiting during the Christmas cruise of the new Â£300m luxury liner Queen Victoria
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A man who took one of his pet buffaloes for a ride at a ranch north of Phoenix on New Year's Eve ended up being bucked off the animal and trampled, authorities said.
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Please be advised the Khartoum story reporting George Clooney had cut short his Darfur trip is wrong and has been withdrawn. Reuters will issue a substitute story shortly:
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Two airlifted from polar station Two men were airlifted from the US-run Amundsen-Scott South Pole station after what is described as a "drunken Christmas punch-up".â¦
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Science & environment: Millions spent on sperm of prize-winning horses may be misplaced, study reveals
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Wild camels in drought-stricken  Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment  and property as they compete with native animals for food and  water.
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Expensive V Bomber mishap A 16 foot jet-powered replica of a Vickers Valient which cost model-maker Simon Steggall Â£15k, two years' graft, and one wife, crashed and burned on its fourth flight, The Sun reports.â¦
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Where is the Humane Society when you need it? Where are those organizations against cruelty to dumb animals - or in this case, drunk Irishmen?