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September 30th, 2009 LONDON - A German man stabbed his wife to death after she fell in love with another man in the virtual world of computer gaming. A court in Bonn, Germany, heard that Vladimir Gruener knifed his wife Nadja 17 times in the face, breast, legs and three times in the heart.

September 25th, 2009 LONDON - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by the Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has topped the list of books that have most shaped world literature of the last 25 years. Other books that made it to the varied list include 'Dreams of My Father' by US President Barack Obama, 'he Satanic Verses' by Sir Salman Rushdie, and 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - A Turkish man has been officially named as the tallest man in the world, but he says his height often makes him unattractive to girls. The 27-year-old Sultan Kosen is 8ft 1in tall and has 11in-wide hands and 15in-wide feet.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - If a new study is anything to go by, British men are among the least romantic in the world. A new study by the psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman claims that British men are less likely to make romantic gestures than men from other parts of the world-in fact, they are less likely to pay compliments, be inspired to write love poetry or take their loved ones away for surprise holidays than their foreign counterparts.

June 10th, 2009 LONDON - She stands just 1ft 11in tall, but Jyoti Amge is not a toddler - rather she's a 15-year-old teenager, who holds the record of being the world's smallest girl. This extraordinary teenager, who weighs just 11 lb, is the smallest girl in the world, according to the Indian Book of Records.

May 26th, 2009 LONDON - The first woman to become the Oxford Professor of Poetry has resigned following allegation that she was involved in a smear campaign against a rival. Ruth Padel, a great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin, insisted she had not engaged in smear tactics and had done "nothing intentional" to lead fellow contender Derek Walcott to pull out of the vote.

May 16th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's most successful male writer for children, Anthony Horowitz, urged 11,000 Scottish schoolchildren to "read anything" to "exercise their minds" during a question-and-answer session from Edinburgh, which was carried on schoolroom "smart boards" and computer screens. He was speaking to classrooms in 215 schools across the country during the session.

May 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Britain got its first woman poet laureate in Carol Ann Duffy. The 53-year-old is the latest to the post held by poets like Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes.

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - It is a 300-year-old post at the venerable Oxford University and previous occupants include W.H. Auden, Matthew Arnold and Seamus Heaney.

April 5th, 2009 LONDON - Jade Goody's beloved sons have paid tribute to their late mum in their own special way, by tucking in 'miss you' messages in a bottle and launching it into the ocean from Australia. The Brit reality TV star's five-year-old Bobby and four-year-old Freddie, on vacation with dad Jeff Brazier, marked their mum's funeral on April 4 by writing messages and drawing her pictures.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - England and Manchester United football star Wayne Rooney has revealed that he is a huge fan of Harry Potter and is more than willing to back a campaign to get children to read the series. The footballer picked J K Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, as one of his favourite books, and said the series "really gets your imagination going".

March 29th, 2009 LONDON - Guy Ritchie's latest squeeze Petrina Khashoggi is a self-confessed love addict, according to reports. The leggy blonde Khashoggi - the love child of disgraced politician Jonathan Aitken - is being reportedly treated for the weird "problem" with relationship therapy sessions in the past.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Late Brit celebrity Jade Goody's mum Jackiey Budden cried as she read the poem 'Mothers Never Really Die' that had been left outside the Big Brother star's house by a fan. The poem, which had been shortened, was left by fan Kate Stanley, and Goody's mum cried as she read it to well wishers outside her daughter's home.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Troubled British rocker Pete Doherty says he 'really and truly' misses ex-girlfriend Kate Moss and is still desperately in love with her. 'Really and truly, I miss her.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Troubled singer Amy Winehouse, who has just returned from a Caribbean holiday, has revealed that she finds solace in poetry. "I like poetry.