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• Canteen lady stole $186,000 for skin care
  HOSPITAL worker who stole $1300 a week for skin care products given two-year suspended sentence.
  
  
• Hundreds flee fast-moving fires in the US
  A WIND-whipped wildfire has sent flames roaring through a rugged canyon in the Colorado foothills, forcing hundreds of people to flee.
  
  
• NZ on alert for another powerful quake
  EXPERTS warn major quake may still come, amid more aftershocks, magnitude-5.2 North Island quake.
  
  
• Pensioners traumatised over killed dog
  MAN sentenced to jail after stealing an elderly couple's pet dog from outside a supermarket and hurling it to its death from a 12 metre viaduct.
  
  
• Teen faces castration after police beating
  A RUSSIAN teenager is facing castration after being severely beaten by police in the Volga river town of Kstovo.
  
  
• Man admits to personally cremating wife
  POLICE arrest man they suspect of accidentally killing his wife, burning her body and burying it in cement at their chateau.
  
  
• Boy, 5, is sweeping success as top inventor
  A DOUBLE-headed broom invented by a five-year-old boy is one of the UK's top 15 "ingenious inventions".
  
  
• Cockroaches 'help fight deadly infections'
  DIRTY cockroaches a health benefit, as their brains contain powerful antibiotic properties.
  
  
• New Zealanders endure strong aftershocks
  CHRISTCHURCH is still shaking 48 hours after an earthquake rocked its very foundations.
  
  
• Playboy editor stays in hiding to avoid jail
  FORMER editor of Indonesian magazine refuses to come out of hiding to face jail sentence.