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THIEVES Three armed thieves stole watches from a store in Mexico City and escaped without attracting attention. Their disguise was simple: they wore the same surgical masks as everyone else
trying to protect themselves from the outbreak of swine flu. CURRY A Malaysian appeals court overturned a decision by a lower court that a restaurant called McCurry had infringed the
McDonald’s trademark. The judge ruled that McDonald’s does not have a monopoly on the use of the prefix “Mc” in business. BAD WEEK FOR... WAGE NEGOTIATION A Serbian union official Zoran
Bulatovic is reported to have cut off his finger and eaten it as a protest at wages that have not been paid for years, leaving the workers with nothing to eat. “It hurt like hell,” Bulatovic
said. PUDSEY BEAR A woman who changed her name to Pudsey Bear to raise money for Children In Need has been refused a passport on the grounds that the name is ‘frivolous’. Ms Bear, formerly
Eileen De Bont, said the refusal was “unfair”.