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A Chinese animated film mocked as ‘terrible’ becomes a box-office hitCorgis run, bark and sniff their way to glory at a growing international racePhotos show the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest in CaliforniaLions and tigers begin a long-awaited rescue from a notorious Argentine zooHigh school football player in Arkansas practices with a venomous snake in his helmetA 3-story Hoosier cabinet in Indiana celebrates an American kitchen iconNero’s Bridge emerges from Tiber River as Rome faces water crisisMini-Mozart heist blights anniversary tribute as thieves make off with 210 statuettesUltrarare Nintendo Mario game cartridges discovered in WisconsinCount Binface, the man in a can with a plan, seeks Parliament seat in Britain's wackiest election