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A young Russian farmer from a small village in South Siberia has asked President Vladimir Putin to allow him to marry a cow. "All girls have left our small village and moved to the city, so I cannot find a woman to be with. But I see the solution to the problem. I love animals very much and want to ask you when it will be allowed in Russia, as it is in Holland, to marry domestic animals?" his question to Putin read. The farmer's question was one of the 160-thousand questions Russians asked Putin during a webcast last week.


A British schoolboy whose afro hairstyle grew so big he required hospital treatment for head pain shaved it off in aid of charity. John Sterlin Browne, 14, a pupil at TynecastleHigh School, had his head shorn in the school gym to the cheers of hundreds of fellow pupils. Spectators were charged about a dollar at the door, to help John reach his target of a thousand dollars for Children With Leukaemia. The Ghanaian-born teenager had been cultivating his afro for the past three years and his mum styled it twice-a-month in fashionable corn rows. A newly shorn John said, "It felt like a big weight had been lifted off my head."