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Katie Price has claimed she married her third husband because his name is "close" to one suggested by a clairvoyant.
The glamour girl tied the knot with stripper Kieran Hayler in the Caribbean, after dating him for a month. In an interview, she said she had been told she would tie the knot with a man called "Kevin", adding: "I saw a medium who told me I'd already met the person I was going to marry. She also said his name was Kevin. His name is close to Kevin so it all became clear."
Surgeons leave mark
Surgeons left up to 16 objects in a man's body after an operation for prostate cancer, a lawyer in Germany has said.
The 77-year-old ex-banker died last year and his family is seeking €80,000 damages for his suffering, plus costs, from the Henriettenstift hospital in Hannover.
Nutty fan rescued
A Malaysian with a craving for coconut milk who decided to shin up a palm tree ended up having to be rescued by the fire brigade.
Mohd Hafiz Che Yusoff was left clinging to the tree in Kelantan state for more than three hours.
UN in Serb song gaffe
The United Nations has apologised after a militant Serb nationalist song was performed at a concert honouring Serbia's presidency of the UN General Assembly.
'March To The Drina' was written about a battle on the river that now separates Serbia and Bosnia.
NRA gun ad criticised
High-profile Republican politician Chris Christie says it is "reprehensible" for the National Rifle Association (NRA) to run an advert bringing US President Barack Obama's daughters into the gun-control debate.
The New Jersey Governor criticised the lobbying group for accusing Mr Obama of being a hypocrite for allowing his daughters to be protected by armed secret service agents but not embracing armed guards for schools.
Suspect rapist shot
A man who abducted and raped a Central Michigan University student in the US, then set fire to a house where she fled, has been shot and killed by police.
Eric Ramsey (30) seized the woman on the campus, drove her in her own car to a house and raped her, then threatened to kill her. She escaped from the moving vehicle and ran to a home, which he set alight, but one of the residents put it out, and he was shot several hours later, around 70 miles away.
Irish Independent
