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Man Dumps 1-Kg Gold Brick in Charity Box

22:26 10/02/2012 MINSK, February 10 (RIA Novosti)

A gold bar weighing in at one kilogram was dropped into a charity collection box in the Belarussian city of Brest, the country's ONT television reported on Friday.

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90-Year-Old Doctor Faces Jail over Patient Gifts
13:34 10/02/2012
A 90-year-old doctor in Russia’s central Nizhny Novgorod region may receive a seven-year jail term for accepting gifts from her patients, RIA Novosti reported.
Monkeys Learn to Mop Cage from Keepers
19:35 08/02/2012
As if in a nod to Charles Darwin, monkeys in an Udmurtia zoo in the Volga region in Russia learned to clean their cages by watching zookeepers and following their example.
British Scientists Show Vegetables Can 'Talk'
20:23 07/02/2012
A research team at the University of Exeter visualized on television the ability of plants to communicate, the university reported on its website.
Airstrip Stolen in Bryansk
20:19 07/02/2012
Taking corruption to uncharted heights, a military official in central Russia has sold an airfield for a bribe.
Siberian Tractor Street Racing Gets Boss Fired
15:02 07/02/2012
A municipal official in the city of Irkutsk in western Siberia got the boot after video popped up on YouTube of his subordinates racing tractors downtown.
Kazakh 'Friend of Jesus' Gets Beard in Fresco
16:42 03/02/2012
The saga of the Kazakhstan official whose likeness was painted into a church fresco depicting a biblical scene has now ended: the painter has added a beard that obscures the official's face, media reported.
Gunpowder Plant to Make Soldier Roly-Poly Dolls
16:39 03/02/2012
A gunpowder plant will produce a military version of a roly-poly doll to spare Russian children from playing with foreign model military vehicles, Izvestia reported on Friday.
Kazakh Monkeys Warm Up with Wine
16:10 03/02/2012
Primates in a Kazakhstan zoo are enjoying a very human remedy against cold weather, with fortified wine added to their daily ration this week, local media reported.
Giant Baby Girl Born in Kazakhstan
13:36 03/02/2012
A baby-giant, weighing almost 7 kg (15.4 pounds), was born in Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan, the chief doctor of the regional maternity hospital said on Friday.
Man Steals Marijuana from Drug Dealer as "Revenge"
22:05 02/02/2012
Police in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals have detained a young man who had stolen 23 kg (50.7 pounds) of marijuana from a drug dealer, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Chilean Caught Stealing Five Tons of Glacier Ice
13:21 01/02/2012
Police in the southern Chilean city of Cochrane arrested a man who attempted to steal over five tons of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier, 1,700 kilometers south of the capital Santiago, El Mercurio daily reported on Wednesday.
Wolves Attack People in Karelian Town
14:00 31/01/2012
A pack of wolves terrorized locals in the streets of a Karelian town, not returning to the woods until police opened fire, killing two.
Ukraine Refuses Monumental Russian Gift
20:55 30/01/2012
Kiev's city government spoke against installing a Russian-made monument to a tsarist statesman in the Ukrainian capital.
19 Tons of FSB Latex Gloves Hijacked
18:07 30/01/2012
Unidentified thieves stole a truckload of latex gloves owned by the Federal Security Service from a street in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg Tells Dante Fans to Talk to Dead Poet
12:51 30/01/2012
St. Petersburg officials have denied re-registration to the city’s branch of the world-renowned Dante Alighieri Society, insisting its members must agree its name with the great poet himself, Fontanka.ru news website reported on Monday.
2 Blown to Death by Hurricane
17:39 27/01/2012
A hurricane caused death of two women in separate incidents in the city of Novorossiysk in southern Russia on Friday.
Israeli Toddler Bites off Snake’s Head
20:27 26/01/2012
An 18-month Israeli boy bit off the head of a snake that crawled into his bedroom in Haifa, the Ynet News portal said on Thursday.
Kidnapped Athlete Kills Abductor
19:46 26/01/2012
The abduction of a weightlifting instructor went awry this week in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan when the victim broke free and killed one of his kidnappers.
Russian Gets 5 Years for Killing Flasher
20:43 25/01/2012
A man was jailed in Voronezh for beating to death an exhibitionist who was showing his genitals to a three-year-old boy.

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