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To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which project erotic images.

When I was a kid, the very best thing about a new school year was all the new stuff that went with it: new pencils, new notebooks and new clothes.

One of the last Pride celebrations of the calendar year, Manchester Pride also serves as a de facto segue into Fashion Month - and this year's 20th anniversary of Manchester Pride provided numerous occasions for the celebration of British pulchritude.

There's nothing like having someone live with you for a year to forge a lifelong friendship.

Felony charges have been filed against a tow truck driver who allegedly hit a mother and her children on an Oxnard street and kept driving for a quarter mile with the two toddlers pinned in their stroller under the vehicle.

Of all the revelations in former Prime Minister Tony Blair's autobiography, his admission to habitually drinking wine and spirits each night was perhaps the most surprising.

George Clooney plays a smart, anxious assassin hiding out in a scenic Italian village in the slow-cooking thriller The American.

Single, childless women in their twenties are finding success in the city: They're out-earning their male counterparts in the USA's biggest metropolitan areas.