Shopping mall caught paying more salary to good-looking cleaners, schools calls Nobel Prize winner 'son-in-law', limousine rakes up $3,000 parking fee.

Cleaners with good looks paid more

Cleaners working in a shopping mall in Dongguan city, Guangdong province, have discovered that those with good looks were earning 150 yuan ($24) more per month than the rest, Nanfang Metropolis Daily reported on Wednesday.

Some of those receiving lower salary asked for pay parity with their good-looking co-workers, but their boss rejected their demand. The employee who blew the whistle on salary gap to media was fired without any explanation.

Local authority admitted that paying salaries based on looks is discrimination and promised to investigate the case.

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School dubs Nobel Prize winner "son-in-law"

School in Bengbu city, Anhui province, has congratulated this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Eric Betzig on its bulletin board by calling him "son-in-law of the school", anhuinews.com reported Wednesday.

Eric's wife studied in the school for six years before moving to the United States years later. She married him after they met at University of California, Berkeley.

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Hair gets stuck in cash-counting machine

Firefighters' specialty has never been just limited to putting out a fire. Sometimes they have to carry out odd rescue missions, too. For instance, they had to rush to a hair-raising incident when a woman's long hair rolled into a cash-counting machine in a bank in Beijing, gmw.cn reported on Wednesday.

Seven firefighters used tools to dismantle the machine and finally rescued the woman after 20 minutes of hard labor. One of the firefighters said: "You think you've seen everything but you haven't. I've saved people, kittens, dogs, but this is the first time that I had to untangle someone's hair."

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Limo rakes up $3,000 parking fee

It is hard to connect a luxury limousine to something shabby, but that is exactly what has happened in Ningbo city, Zhejiang province, reported Qianjiang Evenning News on Wednesday.

A limousine full of litters and car interiors stolen has been parked on a same spot in a parking lot for more than three years and nobody has come forward to claim ownership, according to a security guard of the lot. He said the parking fee has already reached more than 17,000 yuan ($2,775).

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