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DENMARK: Three hundred Danes believed a dream lifestyle awaited them this week after they were announced billionaire lottery winners - until they discovered it was a mistake.
All 300 had received an email from the head of the Danish state-run lottery company, Danske Spil, congratulating them on the astronomical sums they had won, Danske Spil spokesman Thomas Roersig said.
"Three hundred of our lottery players who won the lottery, the Keno, received a message saying they had won a sum in the billions. And they never won that amount ... We are of course very sorry. We have now written to them to inform them of the sum that they really won," Mr Roersig said.
One of the winners, Flemming Dahl, "was a billionaire for an-hour-and-a-half" on Wednesday after receiving an email informing him he had won 28 billion kroner (some $3.8 billion), the Nordjyske newspaper website reported.
"My heart leapt and I started thinking of all the things I was going to do with the money: take my family on holiday, buy a new house, a new car," he told the site.
Mr Roersig said some of the gamers "were disappointed, others were furious and I can fully understand that, but most of them took it well".
BRITAIN: A 25-year-old woman who suffers from a severe form of Osteogenesis Imperfecta, has broken her bones 205 times. She suffered her first fracture the day she was born.
Kay Tate can break a rib just by sneezing or if a friend hugs her too tightly, Daily Mail reveals.
The brittle bone disease in this case is a a hereditary condition, which means Kay's body doesn't produce enough collagen, which provides bones with strength and flexibility. Without sufficient levels of the cement, the bones develop holes and fracture easily, the daily explains.
The mother of one is constantly in pain and the only way to get some relief is to sit in a hot water tub.
Kay's condition makes it difficult for her to lead an independent life. She cannot carry anything heavy so she is dependent on others to help her carry groceries to her home.
Her son knows that he has to go easy on his mom and he can't be too boisterous around her.
The "3ft9" mother also faces a lot of ire as her son is almost catching up with her in terms of height.
BRITAIN: A secondary school teacher got drunk and bit off his wife's nose during a fight.
Nicholas Gough, 59, attacked his 52-year-old wife. The father-of-six held his wife down and chillingly told her ‘no-one will want you after what I am going to do to you’ and chomped off the end of her nose, reports Newstoday.co.uk.
He then sank his teeth into the end of her nose, leaving her face pouring with blood.
Gough even tried to persuade his wife to blame the injury on their dog.The wife reported to the police and he was jailed for five years at the Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Gough was jailed for five years after he admitted wounding his wife deliberately.
KATHMANDU: A family suffering from a rare genetic condition in which hair grows all over the face arrived in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu on Sunday for treatment of their "werewolf-like" appearance.
Devi Budhathoki, 37, her daughters, aged 13 and five, and 12-year-old son say they have endured constant humiliation because of hypertrichosis, which causes hair to sprout between their eyes and across their brows.
"My children have talked about a new life ever since we received word that the hospital was going to treat us," said Budhathoki, a farmer from the remote northwestern village of Khare, near the border with the Tibetan border.
Sufferers from hypertrichosis, also known as "werewolf syndrome", have in previous centuries been used as freakshow performers at circuses.
"My son is fed up with the mockery he is subjected to and he has told his friends that he will be back with a new face so they can no longer tease him. More than myself, I'm worried about my children," Budhathoki told AFP.
"But I am very happy that the treatment is going to be possible. We have lived under constant harassment, my kids wouldn't want to go to school because of the hair," she said.
Budhathoki and her husband Nara also have a seven-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter who have not been affected by the condition.
"The best procedure for them will be laser treatment to remove the hair," said Shankar Man Rai, a surgeon at the Kathmandu Model Hospital who will supervise their treatment.
BEIRUT: Barcelona footballers don't just have a slick passing game, they can also secretly indicate arms smuggling routes to Syria, a pro-government Syrian television channel claimed this week.
Without a hint of irony, Addounia TV superimposed a map of Syria on a screen to show how Lionel Messi and his team-mates, representing smugglers, had kicked a ball, representing a weapons shipment, into Syria from Lebanon.
OSLO: A 36-year-old business consultant became Norway's best known taxpayer this week after the government accidentally displayed his records to everyone who logged onto its tax website.
Kenneth Belcovski's name is on every Norwegian taxpayer's lips this week after a glitch on the Norwegian government's 2011 tax website redirected people logging on to check their declarations to a page detailing Belcovski's tax details.
SALT LAKE CITY: A great-great grandmother in America was declared the oldest woman to paraglide tandem on Tuesday after taking to the air to celebrate her 101st birthday.
In confirming the feat, Guinness World Records said Mary Allen Hardison's historic flight near Salt Lake City on September 1 last year was "pushing record breaking to new heights."
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