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PHOENIX -- A middle-age Hispanic man pushes a mower across the lawn of a giant home in an affluent neighborhood. A middle-age white woman pulls up driving a BMW. "Can you please come here por favor," she said, sticking her head out the window. "I was wondering how much you charge to landscape this home?" The man stops and asks: "Why would I charge to landscape my own yard?" She blushes and drives off. The commercial clip later freezes and an on-screen message appears: "I am an American." The commercial is being filmed for a new Web site created by...

Sex doll re-named after protest A MANCHESTER Mosque has persuaded the UK's leading sex shop chain to abandon a product they claimed was an insult to the Prophet Mohammed. The imam and elders at the Manchester Central Mosque were furious over a blow-up sex doll marketed by the Ann Summer's chain called 'Mustafa s..g'. They complained to Summer's executives that Mustafa was one of the names of the Prophet Mohammed. Members of the mosque and Islamic cultural centre on Upton Road, Hulme, said the sex toy caused Muslims "hurt and anguish". After protests the sex shop chain revealed to Asian...

MEXICO CITY - President Vicente Fox's spokesman said Friday that publicity-seeking activists in the United States were trying "to take advantage" of a dispute over a Mexican postage stamp depicting a Jim Crow-era black cartoon character. Mexico not only refuses to withdraw the stamps, as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others have demanded, but views the criticism as expressions of ignorance and disrespect for Mexican culture, spokesman Ruben Aguilar said. "The government of Mexico emphatically rejects these complaints, which are the products of lack of knowledge or people seeking publicity," Aguilar said. "By no means is Mexico considering the possibility"...

A Maryville man spent his 23rd birthday in custody after police said they found him early Sunday running nude from the John Sevier pool snack bar with a box of stolen snacks. Authorities said the man had apparently scaled an 8-foot tall fence while naked and covered in nacho cheese and was seen running toward a Jeep in which officers found clothing and an open bottle of vodka. According to Maryville police, Michael P. Monn, born July 18, 1981, of McCall Road, Maryville, was arrested by officer Scott Spicer at 5 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the pool...