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People who paid to speak to an AI girlfriend modeled after real life 23-year-old influencer Caryn Marjorie are distraught because the service they paid for, Forever Companions, no longer works. It appears that the service stopped working shortly after Forever Companion CEO and founder John Meyer was arrested for trying to set his own apartment on fire.

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Plane Forced to Return to NYC After Horse Breaks Free (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Bird of Century: Pūteketeke wins NZ poll after campaign by John Oliver (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Man, 89, cut neighbours' hedges as they 'hadn't bothered', then thanks himself in newspaper (news.yahoo.com)

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A bear stole a Taco Bell delivery order from a Florida family's porch — and "then he came again for the soda" (www.cbsnews.com)

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Human mattress dominoes world record broken in the Philippines (www.upi.com)

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Orthodontist offers free gun with Invisalign treatment as part of a promotion called “Grins and Glocks" (www.weau.com)

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John Oliver backs ‘weird, puking’ pūteketeke as he takes New Zealand’s bird of century poll global (www.theguardian.com)

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Somerset gardener banned from 'wriggling' in gimp suit (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Among the restrictions imposed, Hunt is now banned from:

Being in possession of any type of mask or face covering in a public place, including whilst in a vehicle in a public place, between the hours of 21:00 and 06:00 unless officially required for medical purposes or by law.

Wearing or being in possession of black all-in-one garments in a public place, including in a vehicle in a public place between the hours of 21:00 and 06:00.

Crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground in a public place whilst wearing a full-body covering, clothing that appears like a full body covering and/or mask/full face covering.

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Tourist arrested in Lisbon after asking for a "grenade" instead of "pomegranate" (www.portugalresident.com)

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Dutch headwind championships cancelled – due to high winds (www.cyclingweekly.com)

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Electronic wolves with glowing red eyes watch over Japanese landscapes (abcnews.go.com)

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Group seeks to clear names of all accused, convicted or executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts (abcnews.go.com)

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A small New Zealand city has been plagued by drivers blasting Céline Dion ballads at 2 a.m. for almost a year (www.insider.com)

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Italian churchgoers denounce ‘liturgical horror’ of altar girl serving communion (www.theguardian.com)

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A parish priest has defended himself after provoking a scandal in a small northern Italian town when he asked a child to help him serve holy communion.

Father Eros Accorigi said he had been without “an extraordinary minister of communion” during a recent Sunday mass at Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia church in Ossanesga, a town in Bergamo province, and so chose an altar girl who he said appeared to have “the purest heart among so many sinners” to assist him.

The scene was filmed and shared on Gloria.tv, a Catholic video-sharing news site, prompting a furious email from churchgoers to the bishop of Bergamo in which they denounced a “liturgical horror”.

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Tanks containing ‘large quantity of cattle semen’ stolen in burglary (www.independent.co.uk)

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