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Japan

Chocolate sushi for your Valentine!

Nestle presents sushi-shaped KitKat chocolate in a light-hearted bid to attract more Valentine's Day shoppers

Mexico

Mexico's bus tour of "corrupt hot-spots"

It is a bus tour with a difference.

USA

Goodbye Granddad - a long-living lungfish

The longest-living fish in captivity has been put down due to ill health.

Denmark

World's biggest yacht is shipshape and 'nearly' ready to sail

A Russian tycoon is about to take delivery of the world’s biggest yacht.

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Myanmar

Fed up horoscope writer tells Tauruses to stop complaining

Many of us have had a bad day at the office.

USA

Groundhog Day: a mixture of the profane and pure fun

America is to get six more weeks of winter after 2017's Groundhog Day forecast. Thanks a bunch, Phil.

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No more Mr. Tough Guy - endurance race bows out after 30 years

If an 8-mile cross-country run on a muddy route wasn’t tough enough, add a lengthy and challenging obstacle course and freezing cold muddy waters in the British winter, and you have the “Tough Guy”…

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The end is nigh 'Doomsday Clock' ticks closer to midnight

'Doomsday Clock' ticks closer to the end of the world

China

Anger after rat is strung up by its limbs

Images of a rat being strung-up by its limbs in China have been condemned as ‘heartbreaking’ by animal rights campaigners.

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Russian woman drags two tram cars

A Russian power lifter has managed to pull two tram cars full of passengers.

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Skating on frozen water in The Netherlands

Canals and lakes across The Netherlands have frozen over in a cold snap.

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Hot air balloons in Switzerland

Château-d’Oex in Switzerland is hosting its International Balloon Festival until January 29.

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Belarus Ice Swimming

A winter swimming championship was held in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The competition attracted participants from across Europe.

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And also... a German snowman, a frozen fox and an Irishman in the pub

Every Friday journalists from euronews’ various language teams choose a selection of stories from Europe and beyond which did not make the international…

Italy

See Italy's first capsule hotel

Rooms are 4 metres square and cost 8 euros an hour - or 25 for a whole night.

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And Also... man travels 5km on roof of his stolen car, singing Italian foetuses cause controversy

Every Friday journalists from euronews’ various language teams choose a selection of stories from Europe and beyond which did not reach the international…

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Thousands brush up on their calligraphy in Tokyo to start the new year

Thousands of people brushed up their calligraphy as they gathered and competed in the traditional Kaikizome (literally ‘first writings’) of the New Year on Thursday (January…

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Japan: Sushi restaurant purchases bluefin tuna for over $614,000

A popular sushi restaurant in Tokyo, Sushizanmai, purchased a 212 kilogram bluefin tuna for 72 million yen (614,016 USD) at Japan’s iconic Tsukiji fish market during its first auction of the year on T

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Hundreds take New Year plunge in Dutch seaside town

Hundreds of people plunged into the icy cold North Sea as part of a New Year’s Day tradition in the Dutch seaside town of Scheveningen.

USA

Los Angeles' iconic Hollywood landmark vandalised

The Hollywood sign erected on the hills overlooking Los Angeles has been vandalised as part of a New Year prank