• Gothic fans gather in Leipzig

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    A visitor of a Wave-Gothic meeting poses for a photo on May 17, 2013 in Leipzig, eastern Germany. Organisers expect some 20,000 visitors from all over the world for the "dark" music and arts festival running until May 20.

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    Alexander from Saxony poses for the photographer prior to the start of the 22nd Wave-Gothic Festival (WGT) in Leipzig, Germany.

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    A visitor of a Wave-Gothic meeting poses for a photo on May 17, in Leipzig, eastern Germany.

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    A woman poses prior to the start of the 22nd Wave-Gothic Festival (WGT) in Leipzig, Germany, May 17. The gothic and 'dark' culture festival runs until May 20.

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    Vistors to a Wave-Gothic meeting have a pram with skeleton in it on May 17, in Leipzig, eastern Germany. Organisers expect some 20,000 visitors from all over the world for the "dark" music and arts festival running until May 20.

     

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  • Homeless couple calls Colombian sewer home

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    Miguel Restrepo, 62, looks up from his sewer home in Medellin, Colombia, Dec. 4, 2012.

    Albeiro Lopera, Reuters — Former drug addict Miguel Restrepo, 62, has been living in an abandoned sewer with his wife and dog Blackie for 22 years. Their home, fitted with a kitchen, fan, television, chair and bed, is a 64.5-square-feet tunnel that leaks when it rains and requires a manhole cover.

    In a video on the BBC website, Restrepo says that he lives better than the president of Colombia.

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    Miguel Restrepo, 62, and wife Maria Garcia, left, prepare Christmas decorations outside their sewer home in Medellin, Colombia on Dec. 4

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    Maria Garcia cooks in her sewer home in Medellin, Colombia, Dec. 4.

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    Miguel Restrepo, left, rests with his wife Maria Garcia and their dog on a bed inside their sewer home in Medellin, Colombia, Dec. 4.

    A Colombian man claims he has lived inside a sewer for more than 20 years. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

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  • Czech bricklayer decorates house facade with 180,000 corks

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    Exterior of a house in Mutenice, a small town in the South Moravian wine region about 145 miles southeast of the Czech capital Prague, decorated with 180,000 wine corks, June 1.

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    A house decorated 180,000 wine in Mutenice, June 1.

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    A wall of a house decorated with 180,000 wine corks in Mutenice, June 1.

    According to AFP: A bricklayer in the picturesque South Moravian wine-making region is drawing legions of tourists curious to see the elaborate cork-decorated facade of his house. The bricklayer, Miroslav Svoboda, a passionate drinker of red wine, got the corks from a local vintner -- "a sponsor who wants to remain unknown" -- to give himself a unique present for his 50th birthday after two years of busy work.