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Hey colleague, got a dollar to spare?

GERMANY  (Würzburg) - This is a quote from a real and very incredible facebook chat I recently had: "Hi Arthur" - "Hi xxxxxxxxx" - "I'm writing you from London....I have a little bit of a problem" - "Ok?" - "Yeah, I was robbed" - "Oh..." - "Yeah, my briefcase is gone, my wallet, cell phone and even my laptop" - "Oh gosh" - "Yeah sh**...I'm at a hotel right now and I can't pay" - "Hmm.." -"Yeah, this is really bad, I have to pay my hotel bill and fly back to New York, but I don't have any money."

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Argentina paradox: Exchange of Porsche for wine

ARGENGINA (Buenos Aires) - With arbitrary methods, Argentina is trying to polish their trade balance. For every single Porsche that is imported to the South-american country, several hundred bottles of red wine have to be...

French consul-general suspended after stealing wine

CHINA (Hongkong) - The French consul-general in Hongkong was suspended for stealing two expensive bottles of wine. At the request of the Chinese government, Marc Fonbaustier was sent back to Paris, a source in the Chinese...

Ancient Champagne found on shipwreck is not Veuve Clicquot

FRANCE (Paris) – The world’s supposedly oldest Champagne found in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea was bottled 200 years ago and still tastes excellently (we reported). This is the result of an investigation conducted by...

Divers find the world’s oldest Champagne in Baltic Sea

FINLAND (Helsinki) – Divers found the world’s oldest Champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. The 30 perfectly preserved bottles, which did not bore any label, could, according to a wine...

Lloyds covers a vintager's nose

FRANCE - Ilja Gort, vintager and owner of the Bordeaux-vineyard Château de la Garde plus a well-known wine tester, has had assured his nose for five million Euros at Lloyds. He justified his decision in reporting a case...

A hot bath in Beaujolais Nouveau delights the Japanese

JAPAN (Hakone) - Japan's love of the Beaujolais Nouveau causes craziness to brake out. Despite the recession, Japanese guests and also tourists in the spa Hakone cannot do without a luxurious bath in fruity wine. "They...

Fancy banquet with wine and champagne right on the Champs Elysées

FRANCE (Paris) - Thousands of people, all dressed in white, surprisingly gathered in the Place de la Concorde in Paris yesterday night to have dinner with wine and champagne in the middle of the road. This extravagant...

Curiosity: The wine of the dead has risen

PORTUGAL (Boticas) - "Wine of the dead" (Vinho dos Mortos) is what citizens of Boticas, a small county town in Northern Portugal, call the wines that are buried under the ground. There, everybody knows the story that lead...

French winemaker poisoned his wife because she worked too much

FRANCE (Dijon) - A French winemaker has been charged with attempting to poison his wife with arsenic food and beverages, said district attorney Francois Perain in Dijon in an interview with the Agence France Press....

Top wines from prison

PORTUGAL (Alcoentre) - "They are sweet, less sweet than the white ones but they will turn out fine",  says Joao Manuel who is standing there between the grapevines with scissors in his hands as he tastes this year's ...

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