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A kitten survived a plane trip halfway across the United States after accidentally ending up in a suitcase, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Seth Levy’s suitcase, in which 10-month-old tabby Gracie Mae stowed away, was mistakenly picked up by the wrong person after a 2 1/2 hour plane trip from Fort Lauderdale in Florida to Dallas-Fort [...]

Volkswagen’s sleek new Passat gives more expensive Europeans a
run for their money.
THE Passat is Volkswagen’s family car and while it is the
company’s No. 3 best-seller, it still accounts for about 3000 sales
a year.
The Passat was formerly the forgotten car in the VW line-up but
the new-generation model released in March 2006 with a sleeker new
look and [...]

WHEN Russell Crowe first told Jason Taylor he wanted to take
South Sydney to the US for a pre-season camp, the coach had some
reservations about how it would affect their preparations so close
to the premiership kick-off.
But any drop off in the intensity of training has been more than
compensated by the way the players have bonded during [...]

APART from a few fine restaurants, George Parade in the city
houses nothing more than rubbish bins and rats. At lunchtime
yesterday, however, it was the scene of a lavish banquet inspired
by the cult food movie, Big Night.
The acclaimed 1996 film tells the story of two Italian brothers
who emigrate to the US in the 1950s to open [...]

Police officers have removed the pop star Britney Spears from
her home in Los Angeles and placed her on a “mental health
evaluation hold”, authorities said.
More than a dozen motorcycle officers and a Los Angeles Fire
Department ambulance swept through the front gates of the troubled
celebrity’s residence shortly before 1am yesterday, as a police
helicopter hovered.
Spears was rushed from [...]

Graham Simmons visits a small country town with some big
attractions.
THE sign at the town entrance tells it all: “Welcome to
Cunnamulla, settled in the Dreamtime.” Aussie towns don’t get much
older than that. Nor do they get much more welcoming and community
spirited.
Cunnamulla, a heritage town in western Queensland about 11 hours
by road west of Brisbane, is a [...]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy jetted to famed monument to love the Taj Mahal on Saturday while on a state visit to India but without his supermodel-turned-popstar girlfriend Carla Bruni.
The 17th-century white marble mausoleum was sealed off to tourists for the brief visit, with Sarkozy writing in the visitors’ book that his trip was “unforgettable,” local [...]

SOME of Australia’s most prominent politicians are linked to an
organisation blacklisted by the Federal Government because of
concern over its dealings with government and other agencies in
China.
The Australian International Trade Association says its board
includes federal parliamentary secretary Laurie Ferguson as a
“general adviser”, along with deputy federal Opposition leader
Julie Bishop and high-profile shadow minister Bronwyn Bishop.
The so-called [...]

Joanna Hall tours the eastern Mediterranean’s ancient
civilisations on board a luxury ship.
I’m looking through the lens of a camera at the Great Pyramid of
Giza, trying to fit its vast expanse into a single frame, when the
fast patter of flying feet warns of possible danger. From behind, a
camel is being driven towards me at speed. I [...]

German holidaymakers will be able to indulge their love of
naturism by taking to the skies nude on special flights being
launched this year, a travel company said today.
“In the former East Germany, naturist holidays were a much-loved
way of spending the best weeks of the year,” said the founder of
OssiUrlaub.de, Enrico Hess.
“We want to make that freedom [...]