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A rubber chicken launched into space, the wrong place to park in Paris and rodeo exam revision. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- John Edwards' defense lawyer on Thursday picked apart ex-aide Andrew Young's story that he was asked to conceal Edwards' affair with a mistress with campaign money, accusing him of making up stories about the former presidential contender to make money off of the scandal....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney's foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a Cold War mentality and is uninformed about the current challenges facing the U.S. abroad....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A member of a Los Angeles temple apologized Thursday for offering an internship in a U.S. senator's office as part of a charity auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" says he won....

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Urging all nations to be extremely cautious with nuclear energy, Ukraine's president thanked donors for financing the construction of a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday....

Tanker drivers involved in a dispute with fuel distribution companies are urged to reject proposals aimed at resolving their differences.

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A military judge rejected defense motions Thursday to consolidate some of the 22 charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history....

Eighty-five people are arrested as demonstrations in Montreal over rising tuition fees turn violent.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A member of a Los Angeles temple says he offered an internship to U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor's office without the lawmaker's permission in an auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" said he won....

WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) -- Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin....

NEW YORK (AP) -- They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight - and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic trilogy that has earned millions of women fans in a matter of weeks....

NEW YORK (AP) -- They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight - and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic trilogy that has earned millions of women fans in a matter of weeks....

NEW YORK (AP) -- They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight - and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic trilogy that has earned millions of women fans in a matter of weeks....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A minivan has arrived at the house where the three widows and children of Osama bin Laden are staying amid media reports they will soon be deported to Saudi Arabia....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States....

At least eight people are killed and 15 others injured in two bomb blasts at a cafe in Iraq's restive province of Diyala, officials say.

Allegations of postal voting fraud in east London have been passed to the Metropolitan Police, the Electoral Commission says.