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U.S. Mint to sell curved coins honoring Baseball Hall of Fame  Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 01:25 PM PDT By Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The United States Mint will begin selling special curved coins this month to honor the National Baseball Hall of Fame, with a design representing the inverse images of a ball and mitt, U.S. Mint officials said on Thursday. The $5, $1 and half-dollar coins, plated with gold, silver and alloy, are in production at the San Francisco U.S. Mint and will be sold online starting on March 27, agency spokesman Michael White said. Some 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins and 750,000 half-dollar alloy-clad coins will be produced. They will be the first curved coins - concave on the heads side and convex on the reverse - ever minted by the U.S. Mint, according to a statement on the agency's website. Full Story	Top
Australians apply in vain for Sri Lankan hangman job  Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 11:53 AM PDT Two Australians have applied in vain for Sri Lanka's hangman job after the island nation's last official executioner got upset on seeing the gallows for the first time and quit. "Two Australians have sent emails to one of our departments saying that they are interested," Chandrarathna Pallegama, commissioner general of prisons, told Reuters on Thursday. "One is a system administrator and the other had not mentioned the job he is doing," he said. "We have not called the applications, moreover we do not have any provisions to recruit foreigners." Pallegama said on Tuesday the last hangman, who was third most qualified among 176 applicants for the job, quit after getting upset at seeing the gallows. Full Story	Top
'Dead' Mississippi man who kicked out of body bag has died  Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 10:11 AM PDT By Therese Apel JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A Mississippi man pronounced dead last month and put in a body bag only to come alive just before embalming, has now died, a coroner said on Thursday. Walter Williams, 78, died at about 1 a.m. local time in Lexington, two weeks after shocking people when he started breathing and kicking at a funeral home where he was taken after being declared dead, said Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard. "I think he's gone this time," Williams' nephew, Eddie Hester, told a local television station. Williams, known by the nicknames "Snowball" or "Snow" because he was born during a rare Mississippi blizzard, took the experience in stride and told his family to let him go when his time came for good. Full Story	Top
Croatia's second city to close 'worst zoo in the world'  Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 07:39 AM PDT Croatia's second largest city of Split will close its zoo, described by foreign tourists as the 'worst in the world', its deputy mayor said on Thursday. "We have told the zoo manager to start preparations and draft a program to relocate all animals," Goran Kovacevic was cited as saying by the national news agency Hina. Full Story	Top

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