One winning ticket sold in $429 million Powerball lottery

(Reuters) - One winning ticket matched the numbers drawn on Saturday night for the multi-state Powerball jackpot for a payout estimated at $429.6 million, the ninth-highest U.S. lottery prize in...

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'Your Mama pulls fire trucks!' is praise for StrongMoms' kids

NORWALK, Conn. (Reuters) - Still shunning alcohol because she was breastfeeding her 7-week-old baby, Jessica Hopkins grabbed a 50-pound (23 kg) beer keg with her bare hands and hurled it over a...

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A flaming passion: ex-miner creates everyday replicas with matches

RUDA SLASKA, Poland (Reuters) - Janusz Urbanski has a one of a kind chessboard he never plays, a personalised guitar he does not strum and a boat he cannot sail. Why? They are all made from tens of...

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Click bait: baby koala bites and scratches his way to stardom

BEERWAH, Australia (Reuters) - The first koala joey born at Australia Zoo this season has begun exploring his new surroundings, with his early steps out of the pouch attracting over 100,000 views on...

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Russian orchestra, Putin's friends, play Syria's Palmyra

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's Mariinsky Theatre staged a surprise concert in the amphitheatre of the Syrian city of Palmyra on Thursday, in what looked like an attempt by the Kremlin to win...

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English malaise stirs yearning for divorce from European Union

GILLINGHAM, England (Reuters) - With a tattoo of Winston Churchill's face on his right forearm and a poem about English pride on his t-shirt, Michael Clarkson is not shy about his patriotism or his...

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Syrian whose plight went viral finds refuge in Spanish soccer

MADRID (Reuters) - Mementos from the soccer world that brought Syrian refugee Osama Abdul Mohsen to Spain are strewn around the flat he shares with two of his sons, including a ball signed by Real...

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