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A German man who was too drunk to go home spent the night with his horse in a bank. The man went to sleep next to the cash machines at the local branch of the Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse in Wiesenburg, which is southwest of Berlin.

He unsaddled his horse Sammy and closed the bank's door.

A bank spokesperson said that aside from the unpleasant deposit made by his horse inside the building, the 40-year-old account holder did not break any rules with his overnight stay.

A customer discovered the horse and sleeping man, and told police. Once on the scene, police asked the man to leave.

A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.

First placed in front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar from West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers leaped to public attention in early February and has since attracted viewers from 119 countries.

"The hits went over 1 million this morning. It has been a real challenge keeping the cheese up and running with all the interest it has generated," a spokesman for the company running the website, www.cheddarvision.tv, said on Wednesday.

Watchers have tuned in from as far afield as Albania and New Zealand, although most are from the United States where a school has even sent in pictures of two crocodiles to guard the cheese.

"The whole idea was to show people how real food is made -- and it seems to be working," cheesemaker Tom Calver said. "It takes a year for the cheese to mature. This is not fast food. It is slow food."

Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champ, has signed up to groove to Indian pop music in a promotional video for a film about a diamond heist.

They was parading and dancing with unearthed human skulls and the corpse of a baby, prompting a police investigation. The "Naramundo Khela" (Skull Game) is a ritual that appears only to take place in the village of Sona Palasi. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva, a Hindu deity who is depicted by a snake around his neck, and marks the start of the Bengali New Year on April 15.

A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.

Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.

A Wayne Township volunteer firefighter is scheduled to appear today in Mason Municipal Court on drunken driving and other charges after he was found wearing a woman's blond wig and bikini in a public park.

Bus drivers in London have nicknamed a cat that rides the No. 331 bus several days a week Macavity after the classic T.S. Elliot poem.

An oddball, elderly inventor in Tokyo recently lost his fourth attempt at becoming governor of the Japanese city, but vows he will run up to 16 more times and ultimately win.

"I'm going to live to 144, so I'm still only middle-aged," said 78-year-old Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who garnered only 1.6 percent of the total votes.

A British man has met and married a woman after supposedly dreaming of her phone number.

David Brown, 24, said he texted the woman's number and asked, "Did I meet you last night?" after waking up one morning with a telephone number running through his head.

Freedom has a price. In this case nearly 34-hundred dollars for 300 lobsters. Pete McAleney says ten young people showed up at his New Meadows Lobster Pound in Maine and bought all of his one-clawed lobsters. He says the lobster lovers called the crustaceans "God creatures" and vowed to free them. McAleney says he told the group the lobsters would probably just be caught again. He says the young people said at least the lobsters would get a second chance. McAleney says he hasn't a clue as to the identity of the lobster liberators.

A Los Angeles man, who had been diagnosed with cancer in his left testicle, had to have it removed at a VA hospital. Unfortunately, surgeons accidentally removed his right, healthy testicle during the operation. They are suing the hospital for $200,000 in future healthcare costs.

Three Japanese naval officers who swapped pornography on their computers triggered a scandal over a possible leak of sensitive data linked to Japan's missile defense system, a newspaper said Thursday.

Police launched a probe last week after a navy officer married to a Chinese woman was found to have taken home a computer disk containing information about the high-tech Aegis radar system, domestic media said.

School district officials are trying to identify who watched $250 worth of pay-per-view pornographic movies using a school cable television box, officials said.

Someone after business hours used one of the five cable boxes in the Board of Education building to order the films, priced between $4.95 and $9.95.

A British dentist was found guilty Thursday of urinating in his surgery sink and using dental tools meant for patients to clean his fingernails and ears.

Unable to come to terms with the death of their pet dog, an elderly couple in southern India committed suicide by hanging themselves, police said on Monday.