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Quirky World: Cereal offenders make off with £45k of breakfast bars

Some of the stranger stories from around the world

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Putin gets own chapter in ‘official’ history book

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Meteor injures 1,100 as it explodes over mountains

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1,100 hurt as meteor hits Russia

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Meteor Q&A: Meteor over Russia 'very small'

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Almost 1,000 people injured by meteor in Russia

Russia may send spacecraft to knock asteroid away and prevent collision

RUSSIA is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country’s space agency said yesterday.

Thu, 31 Dec, 2009

Solzhenitsyn is buried

Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was buried today in a Russian Orthodox ceremony that included goose-stepping honour guards and a religious choir singing dirges.

Wed, 06 Aug, 2008

Putin leads tribute to writer who exposed Gulags

RUSSIAN prime minister Vladimir Putin led hundreds of mourners paying last respects yesterday to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident writer who chronicled the horror of the Soviet prison camps.

Wed, 06 Aug, 2008

Chinese toxic spill threatens Russian city

A toxic spill from a Chinese factory is now threatening the Russian city of Khabarovsk, where 580,000 people now face pollution and the possibility that their heating may have to be switched off despite sub-zero temperatures.

Mon, 19 Dec, 2005