A 65-year-old Berlin woman who already has 13 children is pregnant again with quadruplets, Germany's RTL broadcaster reported Sunday.
The Russian and English teacher's pregnancy follows several attempts abroad at artificial insemination over the last year-and-a-half, according to the private TV channel.
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A French climber has scaled one of Dubai's tallest skyscrapers, relying on just chalk and sticky tape on his fingertips to help him up the 75-storey high Cayan Tower in the emirate's glitzy marina area.
Alain Robert, 52, completed climbing the 1007-foot (307 meter) high structure in just 70 minutes on Sunday. He had no harness and little space for his feet on the ledges of the tower, which twists as it ascends.
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When Jared Milrad and Nate Johnson participated in a video about "big changes," they had no idea their same-sex wedding plans would feature in Sunday's campaign launch by Hillary Clinton.
Friends called to say they saw the pair walking hand in hand in what quickly became one of the most widely viewed political clips of the year.
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A Japanese woman allegedly attacked her husband with a kitchen knife because of the terrible smell he had left in the toilet, police and reports said Monday.
Emi Mamiya, 29, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after apparently slashing her husband's face with the knife, police said.
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The England Under-19 women's team qualified for the European Championships in bizarre fashion after scoring a penalty in a replay of the closing seconds of their match against Norway on Thursday.
The qualifier in Belfast resumed in stoppage-time with England trailing 2-1 and about to take a penalty after UEFA, European football's governing body, took the unprecedented step of ordering the conclusion of the match to be replayed because of a refereeing error.
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A Croatian man could not believe his eyes when he received a parcel containing a wallet he misplaced 14 years ago -- full of more money than he originally lost, a newspaper reported Friday.
"First I though that someone was joking with me so I went to check whether the money was real," Ivica Jerkovic, from a village in eastern Croatia, told the 24 sata daily.
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From calling for a Buddhist temple to a place of worship for Jedis, Turkish students have found a novel way to oppose controversial plans to build mosques on their campuses in the officially secular country.
Students at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) have launched an online petition on change.org sarcastically urging the building of a Buddhist temple in response to a plan to construct a mosque.
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Four Amazonian monkeys due to be transferred from Sweden to Saudi Arabia have been left stranded in a Stockholm zoo after a diplomatic row prompted Riyadh to stop issuing business visas.
The Pygmy marmosets -- among the world's smallest primates at less than 15 centimetres (6 inches) long -- were born a year ago and had been due to be moved to a Saudi zoo outside the capital Riyadh.
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The owner of a 17-pound Siamese cat named Liam says he has nearly used up his nine lives after getting shocked on a power pole in Grants Pass and falling 25 feet.
Jennifer Kagay tells The Grants Pass Daily Courier (http://bit.ly/1DpyP6v ) she and her husband were lying in bed early Tuesday when they heard a "bang" and the power went out.
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A hearing into a massive graft scandal at Brazil's state oil firm Petrobras was interrupted Thursday when a protester unleashed several rodents including mice, hamsters and gerbils on proceedings, sparking chaos at Congress.
The small brown creatures were released by an unknown suspect in the middle of the hearing, interrupting a statement by ruling Workers Party (PT) treasurer Joao Vaccari Neto and briefly creating chaos among journalists and politicians as the rodents scampered across the floor.
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