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Grenade-shaped cologne raises stink in Brazil

Talk about making a stink.

Appetite for seduction: BK’s new fragrance

The way to a man's heart may be through his stomach, but the way to a woman's heart — according to Burger King — may be through a new meat-scented body spray.

Police: Suspect's 'Gun' a Cologne Bottle

Akron police say a robbery attempt had more than a whiff of failure. They accuse a man of trying to stick two people up outside a video store with a bottle of cologne that had been colored black with a marking pen and resembled a gun.

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Most Cologne archive documents intact despite collapse
Source: thelocal.de

Three months after the collapse of Cologne's city archives, experts are amazed by how many of the precious documents have survived the devastating accident.

Artist Creates Pictures by Folding Paper
Source: Telegraph

Simon Schubert creates "elaborate pictures" by making "hundreds of tiny folds in paper."

Workers unearth intact Cologne archive cellars
Source: thelocal.de

Workers sifting through the rubble of Cologne's collapsed historical archive have discovered intact storage cellars with a substantial number of undamaged documents, the city announced on Sunday evening.

Cologne archive collapse damages could top €1 billion
Source: thelocal.de

Damages from the collapse of Cologne's city archive, which destroyed and buried thousands of precious historical documents going back a thousand years, could exceed €1 billion, the magazine Focus reported Sunday.

Opera singers walk off the job at violent Cologne production
Source: deutsche-welle.de

Just two weeks before opening night singers at the Cologne opera are calling in sick because the staging of the classic production "Samson and Delilah" is too brutal.

Archive Collapse: Last Victim Found as Cologne Effort Switches to History
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

For over a week, workers at the site of the collapsed archive building in Cologne have focused on finding victim remains. Now, the effort will switches to saving as much of the valuable archive inventory as possible. It is a race against time.

Second body retrieved from collapsed Cologne archive
Source: thelocal.de

Rescue workers have retrieved the body of a second victim from the rubble of Cologne's historic archive more than a week after the building collapsed.

One body found in Cologne archive rubble
Source: thelocal.de

Early Sunday morning, rescuers retrieved one corpse from the rubble of the Cologne historical archive that collapsed Tuesday. The search continues for a second man believed to buried in as much as four metres of debris.

Photo Gallery: 'It Looked Like Sept. 11' - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

"Hundreds of police and fire personnel rushed to the scene in Cologne on Tuesday after the building housing the city's archive collapsed into the street."

History in Ruins: Archive Collapse Disaster for Historians
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

The collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on Tuesday buried more than a millenium's worth of documents under tons of rubble. Archivists and historians hope something can be salvaged, but the future of the city's past is grim.

Cologne mayor: metro 'almost irresponsible'
Source: thelocal.de

Cologne's Mayor Fritz Schramma on Wednesday called into question further construction of a metro line after the dramatic collapse of city's historical archive left two people missing and a gaping hole where half a block of buildings once stood.

Christmas Tragedy: Cologne Man Kills Himself at Russian Roulette
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

It was a drunken act of madness that went tragically wrong: An inebriated German man decided to play Russian roulette with a loaded revolver in front of his family at Christmas, and lost.

Clashes Likely Over Cologne Moot
Source: Saudi Gazette

Cologne Mayor Mayor Fritz Schramma expects to assemble 40,000 people in support of building mosques as the far-right condemns "immigrant invasion."

Burger King's scent of love now flame broiled
Source: The Boston Herald

Excerpt: Burger King is hoping to be known as more than "The Home of the Whopper." This weekend, the fast food chain rolled out "Flame," a new men's body spray billed as "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat."

Cologne brothel offers tattoo discount
Source: thelocal.de

About 40 men have agreed to a Cologne brothel owner's offer of lifelong free entry in exchange for getting tattoos of the establishment logo on their arms, daily Express reported on Friday.

Bacon Perfume and Chocolate Chip Cologne

Tonight at supper another female coworker and I were discussing alluring scents.

Cologne man trapped in old clothes container
Source: thelocal.de

A 20-year-old man from Cologne was forced to spend an entire night in a metal container for old clothing donations after trying to steal what was inside.

Drunk in Cologne jams phone line for six hours
Source: thelocal.de

Police in Cologne said they had to drag out a 60-year-old intoxicated man from a public telephone booth after he dialled emergency services more than 30 times to "save the world."

German police arrest 2 terrorist suspects on plane
Source: Reuters

"German police boarded a Dutch airliner at Cologne airport on Friday and arrested two men suspected of planning to take part in terrorist attacks.

Blonde-Haired, Blue-Eyed Terror Suspects - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

"Mr. Breininger is dangerous precisely because he is blond and blue-eyed," said August Hanning, the state secretary at the German Interior Ministry and an outspoken voice in the German government on the threat of terrorism.

Commandos storm KLM jet in Cologne
Source: thelocal.de

German commandos stormed a KLM airliner at Cologne-Bonn airport on Friday and arrested two men suspected of wanting to carry out terrorist attacks, police said.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Street clashes erupt in Germany
Source: BBC News

Protests against a far-right anti-immigrant group rally in Germany turned violent when protesters began to throw stones, other attempted to steal the police weapons.

Gila Monsters stolen from Cologne zoo
Source: thelocal.de

Lizard-loving thieves broke into the Cologne zoo over the weekend to steal four highly poisonous Gila Monsters.

Nero's gate unearthed in Cologne
Source: Telegraph

A two thousand year old Roman gate thought to have been built by Emperor Nero has been discovered in the western German city of Cologne. The gate, and 11 metres of town wall alongside, were discovered by builders excavating Cologne's new metro line.

Robber fails in cheap cologne hold-up
Source: metro.co.uk

A man who tried to rob two men by brandishing a cheap bottle of cologne has been arrested in America.

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