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The best-known goat in Sudan has died months after being "married" to a man in the South Sudan capital, Juba, the BBC has learned.


Local elders ordered a man found having sex with the goat, later called Rose, to "marry" her last February.

"The idea was to publicly embarrass the man," says Tom Rhodes, editor of the Juba Post, which first ran the story.

The BBC's story of the "wedding" caught the public imagination and became one of the most read internet stories.

Rose, black and white, is believed to have died after choking on a plastic bag she swallowed as she was eating scraps on the streets of Juba.

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Police in Germany had to call in a locksmith to break into jail when the lock on a cell broke, trapping a prisoner inside, authorities said on Wednesday.

Police in the Bavarian town of Zwiesel near the Czech border locked up the 18-year-old at the police station after he was accused of smashing a car window during May day festivities on Tuesday.

Officers planned to send the youth home the following morning, but could not open the door because of the broken lock.

"We told him we'd get him out of there," said a spokesman for local police. "We said the locksmith was coming and that if that didn't work we'd prise the iron bars apart for him."

The locksmith managed to spring the lock and free the prisoner.

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.

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.

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.

An Austin, Minn., man admitted to that on July 29 he broke into a cemetery and stole a 5-foot statue of the Virgin Mary. Then, he painted it to resemble a clown, before stashing it at his girlfriend's house in her closet. He was found out when someone saw pictures of him and the statue on MySpace.

A man from China is to finally have a huge tumour removed today after discovering it 17 years ago.