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Indonesia to deport Australian surfer jailed for …

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones from Queensland, Australia, second left, looks on as prosecutor and immigration officials sign his transfer documents at the local immigration office in Meulaboh, Aceh, Indonesia on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. The Australian surfer who was jailed for attacking several people while drunk and naked in Indonesia's deeply conservative Muslim province of Aceh will be deported back to his country after he agreed to apologize and pay compensation, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sultan Ikbal Abiyyu)

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Just keep swimming: SoCal study shows sharks, humans can …

This drone image released by researchers with the Shark Lab at Cal State Long Beach, shows a juvenile white shark swimming next to a standing man on a long board along the Southern California coastline, April 28, 2022. Researchers at CSULB Shark Lab, used drones to study juvenile white sharks and how close they swim to humans in the water. There were no reported shark bites in any of the 26 beaches surveyed between January 2019 and March 2021. (Carlos Gauna/CSULB Shark Lab via AP)

Austrian party reverses leadership result after spreadsheet …

FILE - Then Austrian defense minister Hans Peter Doskozil reacts during a joint military exercise in Allensteig, Austria, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. Austria’s main center-left opposition party has reversed the result of its weekend leadership election, announcing that a computer error originally led to the wrong candidate being declared the winner. At a hastily called news conference on Monday, the head of the party's electoral commission announced that it was in fact Andreas Babler and not Hans Peter Doskozil who won, taking 317 votes to Doskozil's 280, the Austria Press Agency reported. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

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In Denmark, potatoes on key bridge cause havoc

Potatoes are seen scattered across the carriageway on the western part of the Great Belt Bridge, Denmark, Thursday, June 1, 2023. A 57-year-old truck driver was Thursday detained after loads of potatoes have found on the key bridge linking two Danish islands, police said, adding the man was suspected of recklessly causes imminent danger to others. A first spill was reported in the westward direction on the Storebaelt bridge at 6.35 a.m., police spokesman Kenneth Taanquist said, adding a similar incident happened shortly after in the opposite direction. (presse-fotos.dk/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Beloved New York swan babies rescued after mother was …

Manny, one of the beloved swans from the Manlius swan pond, swims in the pond alone without his mate, Faye, Tuesday, May 30, 2023 in Manlius, N.Y. The upstate New York village of Manlius mourning the loss of Faye, a swan who was stolen from the village pond along with her four cygnets. The cygnet, or baby swans, were recovered on Tuesday, but officials say the mama swan was eaten. (Katrina Tulloch/Syracuse Post-Standard via AP)

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Rolling thunder: Contestants chase cheese wheel down …

Participants compete in the men's downhill race during the Cheese Rolling contest at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, Monday May 29, 2023. The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event where participants race down the 200-yard (180 m) long hill chasing a wheel of double gloucester cheese. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Teen dies during apparent social media stunt on Los …

FILE - Cars move along the 6th Street Viaduct in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Police say a 17-year-old boy slipped and fell to his death this weekend while climbing a Los Angeles bridge in an apparent social media stunt. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Danish masters prepped canvases with leftovers from …

This image provided by the Statens Museum For Kunst shows the 1834 painting "The 84-Gun Danish Warship 'Dronning Marie' in the Sound" by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Danish painters in the 19th century had some special ingredients up their sleeves: They used materials from brewing beer to create their artwork, according to research published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg/Statens Museum for Kunst via AP)