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'The Jingle Cats' are back
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- It may not be as much of a holiday tradition as decorating the tree or drinking eggnog, but the caroling cats are back this year with a new video.
"The Jingle Cats" are a group of nine singing felines who have been meowing Christmas classics since 1993. The man behind the cats is Mike Spalla, who started the group after discovering his cat, Cheesepuff, had an affinity for meowing Christmas songs.
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Albright sings, dances in U.N. commercial
UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. commercial about the success stories of several refugees shows U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright lip-synching a Motown classic while dancing in a grocery store.
Other refugees in the 60-second ad include Sudanese-born model Alek Wek, Chilean writer Isabel Allende, Canadian rapper Keinaan and sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
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World's longest fingernails for sale
HONG KONG -- A retired Indian photographer who has been in the Guinness Book of Records for the past 20 years for having the world's longest fingernails has decided to cut them off and put them on the auction block.
Shridhar Chillal has been protecting his several-foot-long nails for years. "When I see a car, a scooter, a cow or a bull, a child or even adults, before they come my way I have to make sure I'm out of the way," Chillal told Reuters in an interview. "Even when there is a big gust of wind I turn my back and position my body so that the wind takes my back and my nails are secure. I shield them from the wind."
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Cover that bottom, Brazilian judge orders
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- On Tuesday, a Brazilian judge ordered the latest Playboy billboards that depict the naked bottom of a cover model to be covered.
The judge ordered official black and white notices to be pasted over the offending area of Carla Perez, a well-known television presenter and dancer. He told Reuters the ruling was made to protect children under 18.
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'Crowns' celebrates church hats, and the women who wear them
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Peggy Knox has a few words of advice for anyone who wants to handle her hat.
"Don't do it. Not the hat. The only person who'd touch a woman's hat is someone who doesn't wear hats," she says in the new book "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats." "Admire it from a distance, honey."
The self-described "hat queen" is one of 50 similarly passionate women featured in the book, which explores the African-American tradition of wearing elegant, elaborate, sometimes over-the-top hats into their houses of worship.
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