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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The Hungarian Interior Ministry looks set to allow prostitutes to tout for business in shopping malls, local media reported Tuesday.



The ministry is thinking of allowing dedicated shopping centers where prostitutes could strike deals for sex as long as they move to a place of their own to carry out the transaction, the daily Nepszabadsag said.



"There is nothing intrinsically wrong legally with an entertainment center without gratification," the newspaper quoted from a letter the ministry sent to the businessman who proposed to set up an "all-in-one" sex plaza.



Hungary allows local governments to set so-called "zones of patience" for the country's up to 20,000 prostitutes, but no municipality has done so yet.

Pothead Grandmother Spared Jail



LONDON (Reuters) - A 66-year-old British grandmother with a taste for marijuana casserole was spared jail Friday despite admitting she had shared cannabis-laced cookies with fellow pensioners.



Patricia Tabram from East Lea in the northern tip of England, who said she uses cannabis to alleviate pains in her neck and back, pleaded guilty to possession of the drug with intent to supply.



But Judge David Hodson said he would not make a "martyr" of her when she returned to Newcastle Crown Court for sentencing. Instead, she received a six-month suspended prison sentence.



The white-haired, bespectacled granny was unrepentant, and said she would keep cooking with pot.



"I had it this morning in my scrambled eggs and I'll have it again for lunch. I'm not giving it up," she told Channel 4 news.



Tabram has become a symbol for Britain's legalize marijuana campaign. On her Web Site, www.grandma-eats-cannabis.com, she promises soon to provide free recipes, as well as tea towels and mugs for sale.



Last year, Britain downgraded cannabis from the same class as cocaine and ecstasy to a lower class of illegal drug, which means police are not expected to arrest people for possessing small amounts but can jail them for supplying it to others.



Police said they raided Tabram's home after a tip-off in May last year and found 31 cannabis plants along with hydroponic cultivation equipment. In a later raid they found 47 bags of "skunk," a particularly strong form of the drug.



The set-up at Tabram's home "bore all the hallmarks of any sophisticated drug dealer," police said in a statement.

Crowds Drawn to Pig Olympics in China



SHANGHAI, China - These pigs run, jump, and swim — almost anything but fly. Thousands of Shanghai residents have turned out to a city park to watch a herd of pigs compete in what organizers are calling the "Pig Olympics," the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Tuesday.



They run over hurdles, jump through hoops, dive, and swim in shows twice a day, it said.



The pigs, a midget species from Thailand, begin training soon after birth and can begin performing professionally from about 1 year of age, Yang Ying, a manager with promoters Bluesea Broadway Co. Ltd. was quoted as saying.



"These lovely pigs are of a special species that is good at sports by nature," Yang said.



Pig races are common in many places, but heavily urban Shanghai offered few opportunities to see farm animals in action.



The report quoted primary students who visited the show a saying they were reconsidering their preconceptions of pigs as lazy and dull.



"It's incredible," said 8-year-old, Tan Yizhou, who had the honor of presenting a gold medal to one of the winning pigs. "I never thought that a pig could be so clever, dexterous and versatile."

Australia politician urges golf with cane toads



CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australians in the country's Northern Territory should start smashing cane toads to death with golf clubs and cricket bats in a bid to stop the spread of the toxic creatures, a government politician has urged.



David Tollner, the member for the Northern Territory seat of Solomon, said on Monday the cane toads -- which have highly poisonous sacs behind their head that quickly kill native animals that prey on them -- should be eradicated by "any means possible".



Australia has for decades fought unsuccessfully to stop the spread of cane toads, imported from Hawaii in 1935 in a failed attempt to combat greyback beetles which were threatening the country's tropical northern sugar cane fields.



"(When I was a child) we hit them with cricket bats, golf clubs and the like. Things were a bit different, most kids had a slug gun or an air rifle and we would get stuck into them with that sort of thing as well," Tollner told Australian radio.



"If people could be encouraged to do it rather than discouraged the better the chance will be of stopping the cane toads arriving in Darwin and other parts of northern Australia."



Cane toads, which now number in their millions, are so toxic that crocodiles, death adder snakes and wild dingo dogs can die of cardiac arrest within 15 minutes of eating a toad.



Australia's cane toad population now spreads west from the northeast coastal sugar cane fields into the fragile wetlands of Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory and are steadily marching towards the territory's tropical capital city of Darwin.



Animal welfare groups discouraged people from taking up Tollner's call to arms, saying freezing the animals to death was more humane.



"We don't want children picking up their golf club or their cricket bat in the backyard and having a go at any animal," a spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) told Australian radio.



Female cane toads can lay 8,000 to 35,000 eggs at a time and may produce two clutches a year. The toads reach maturity within a year and have a lifespan of at least five years.

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Тhe man once called "the baddest man on the planet" sat on the stage at the Lincoln Theater with three of his children. He held hands at one point with 7-year-old daughter Rayna, and later sat napping 3-year-old son Miguel on his lap.



"I feel like Mr. Mom," Tyson said.



He's been more than $30 million in debt, and when asked how much longer he thinks he'll keep fighting, Tyson answered: "Long enough to take care of my children a long time"



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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.



The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.



The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.



Caplan said fires are known to occur in operating rooms although they were extremely rare.



The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.



Caplan strongly disputed its contents. "That letter is factually incorrect," he said.

Police in Ariz. Seek Monkey for SWAT Team



MESA, Ariz. - The Mesa Police Department is looking to add some primal instinct to its SWAT team. And to do that, it's looking to a monkey.



"Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it," said Mesa Officer Sean Truelove, who builds and operates tactical robots for the suburban Phoenix SWAT team. "It would change the way we do business."



Truelove is spearheading the department's request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.



The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.



Since 1979, capuchin monkeys have been trained to be companions for people who are quadriplegics by performing daily tasks, such as serving food, opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, retrieving objects and brushing hair.



Truelove hopes the same training could prepare a monkey for special-ops intelligence.



Weighing only 3 to 8 pounds with tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills, Truelove said it could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command. Dressed in a Kevlar vest, video camera and two-way radio, the small monkey would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go.



It has been a little over a year since Truelove filed a grant proposal with the U.S. Department of Defense under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and he is still waiting for word.



If the grant goes through, Truelove plans on learning how to train the monkey himself and keeping the sociable monkey at home, just like a K-9 officer would. He projects that $85,000 in grant money would outfit the monkey with gear and pay for veterinarian care, food and habitat for three years.

Motorist Injured by Flying Frozen Sausage



LONDON - A British motorist, driving home from work with his car window wound down, had his nose broken by a flying frozen sausage, an official said Monday.



The 46-year-old man was driving near his home in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, east of London, when the sausage came through the window and hit him on the nose, a spokesman for the Essex Ambulance Service said on condition of anonymity.



"The man said he was making his way home after work and had the window down because it was such a nice afternoon," the ambulance spokesman said.



"He said he saw a car coming the other way and felt a searing pain in his nose.



"His nose was undoubtedly fractured and he had lost quite a lot of blood.



"It must have been an incredibly lucky, or unlucky, shot to get the sausage through a moving car window. I have never seen or heard of anything like this before."



Essex police said they were investigating the incident

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Пьяные обезьяны напали на деревню



Стая обезьян напала на индийскую деревню, напившись настойки из листьев марихуаны, приготовленной к религиозному празднику. Как сообщает Times of India, невероятное нашествие пришлось отбивать жителям деревни Баралапокари.



В результате столкновения с мартышками трое индийцев получили ранения и были госпитализированы. В конце концов, обезьян палками отогнали от напитка, предназначенного для индийских богов.



Наркотический напиток пана настаивают на листьях марихуаны, и на праздновании индийского нового года (ближайшая пятница) сосуды с напитком должны были стать подношением божествам. Обычно сосуды с паной стоят прямо у стен домиков и хижин — этим обстоятельством и воспользовались обезьяны.



Жителям деревни удалось успокоить разбушевавшихся обезьян и вернуть их в естественную среду обитания — в джунгли.