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- The authorities running a cemetery near Tel Aviv were bemused to findtourists beating a path to the grave of a 19-yearold British soldier who died in fighting 66 years earlier. His name, engraved on the headstone, was... Harry Potter.

- A German inventor had the idea of placing a specially adapted mobile phone in the coffinsof the dead. That way relatives could call up and speak to their dear departed without having to leave home.

- Local lawmakers in Virginia threw out a bill that would have banned young people from wearing low-slung trousers. "Underwear is called underwear for a reason," said the legislator who sought the measure.

- A man and woman held in adjacent cells of a Turkish prison made a hole in the wall rough which they managed to have sex and produce a child, papers said. They got a further four-month sentence for damaging public property.