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Saw VI to Be Shown Only in Porno Theaters in Spain

Citing extreme violence, the Spanish Culture Ministry’s Film Institute gave “Saw VI” an X rating this week, relegating it to the limited circuit of theaters dedicated to pornographic films.

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Finland Makes Broadband Access a Legal Right

Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband access to every person living in Finland (5.5 million people, give or take). This is reportedly a first worldwide. Starting July 2010, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection as an intermediate step, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications

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Roman Polanski — Get Comfortable

The Swiss Justice Ministry has denied Roman Polanski’s request to be released from prison. According to the Ministry, there’s still a high risk that Polanski might go on the run if released from custody.

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10-year-old girl fined $50 for lemonade stand at NY park

It's a summertime tradition for kids everywhere – setting up a lemonade stand and hoping to make a few bucks off of thirsty passersby. That is, unless you do it on city park property – as did one little girl who was ticketed for trying to serve up summer refreshment. To 10-year-old Clementine Lee, setting up a lemonade stand at Riverside Park on a hot Saturday afternoon seemed like a fun way to make money

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10-year-old girl fined $50 for lemonade stand at NY park

Wave of Baghdad blasts kills at least 75

BAGHDAD – A truck bomb tore through Iraq's Foreign Ministry Wednesday, knocking out concrete slabs and windows and leaving a mass of charred cars outside as a wave of explosions around Baghdad killed at least 75 people. It was the deadliest day in the capital since U.S. troops largely withdrew from cities on June 30 and a major challenge to Iraqi control of Baghdad.

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Newly released files contain over 4,000 pages of UFO sightings

An alien with a lemon-shaped head and a jazz-themed encounter with a UFO at the Glastonbury Festival are among hundreds of UFO sightings detailed in the latest batch of documents released Monday by the UK's Ministry of Defence. Fourteen files, containing over 4,000 pages of UFO sightings from 1981 to 1996, have now been placed on Britain's National Archives database and are publicly available online. The sightings range from lights in the sky to close contact with aliens, and the files contain detailed analysis on some of the UK's most popular cases — a number of which remain officially unexplained.

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