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GRAPEVINE, Texas, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A mailman in Texas refused to let two trashcans disrupt his deliveries, and bulldozed them with his truck, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A perfumed postage stamp may show consumers that snail mail makes "scents" as an alternative to e-mail, postal officials in India said.
ISHIKARI, Japan, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Students at Japan's Fuji Women's University have developed a pink brew named after the place where Jesus famously turned water into wine.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Students at an Ohio high school are planning to fuel their school buses on biodiesel fuel using vegetable oil from their school's cafeteria.
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A Florida man stole a garbage truck before leading police on a chase through Orlando and busy neighboring cities, WKMG-TV Orlando reported.
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A mom in the New York town of Warwick is in trouble with the neighbors over her decision to demand Santa Claus not be featured in an area school.
NAGASAKI, Japan, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- In order to create a 164-foot roll cake in the Japanese city of Nagasaki, nearly 150 people came together to help roll up the culinary treat.
BELLMEAD, Texas, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The father of a 4-year-old Bellmead, Texas, boy said his son hugged his teacher's aide; school officials said it was sexual contact.
MOUSCRON, Belgium, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A group of Belgian friends experienced the joy of thinking they hit a $35 million lottery and sorrow when they learned their numbers weren't registered.
HAGFORS, Sweden, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Police in Hagfors in western Sweden may experience sticker shock when they purchase toilet paper; after all, the last time they bought some was 20 years ago.
LONDON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A survey by a British newspaper finds that only about 1 percent of the Christmas cards sold in the country have a religious message.
NORTHAM, Australia, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Police in Western Australia say a fight between two families got so large additional officers had to be brought in.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg clowned around at a staff Christmas party by donning a T-shirt, jeans, wig and bandanna and singing "Born to Run" as a spoof.
HARRINGTON PARK, N.J., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The principal of a New Jersey school paid off his students for reading 10,000 books in a year by spending a freezing night on the roof.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A diner in New York's West Village got a big surprise when he learned that his order of macaroni and cheese topped with truffles would run him $55.
LONDON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Young people in London ages 11 to 19 love to surf the Internet the most, but they also like to hang with their grandparents and listen to their iPods.
HUNTINGTON, N.Y., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- An accused Long Island, N.Y., scam artist found that what goes around comes around when she allegedly used stolen money as a deposit on a fake $4,000 loan.
WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Someone has stolen a 40-foot Christmas tree in the middle of the night in Worcester, Mass., without being seen or heard.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has its "Word of the Year," picked by an overwhelming 5-to-1 vote on its Web site: "truthiness," a noun.
Fans react and hold up signs as floats carrying the New York Giants rides down the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants victory ticker tape parade 2 days after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in New York City on February 7, 2012 . UPI /John Angelillo
