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Adam Lanza's body has been claimed for burial.

More than two weeks after the Connecticut 20-year-old open fire and killed 28 people, including himself, the medical examiner's office says his body was claimed.

They didn't say who claimed him, where he would be buried, if he would receive a funeral or really anything else about what will happen to the mass murderer.

Even The New York Times came up short on details as "calls and messages to family members and a spokesman were not immediately returned on Sunday."

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Controversy has arisen in Warsaw, Poland as a result of a piece by Maurizio Cattelan.

The Italian artist has created a statue of Adolf Hitler praying and placed it in the former Warsaw Ghetto, a location that saw numerous Jews killed by the dictator during his regime.

It is titled "HIM," is only visible from a long distance and is meant to force a contemplation on the nature of evil, according to organizers.

However, Jewish advocacy group the Simon Wiesenthal Center doesn't see it that way.

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Aubrey Ireland didn't want it to come to this, but the 21-year old student at College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati says she had no choice:

She has been awarded a civil stalking restraining order against her parents.

A judge has ruled that David and Julie Ireland must remain at least 500 feet away from their only child because Aubrey says their protectiveness has spiraled out of control.

"They basically thought that they were paying for my college tuition and living expenses that they could tell me what to do," Ireland told ABC News.

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A teddy bear donated to a foster child seems like a nice idea ... except Christmas nearly turned catastrophic for the youngster after a gun was found in it.

That's normal.

Natasha Brunson of Harlem, N.Y., pulled a gun from the mom and baby teddy bear set, thinking the weapon was another toy that had fallen into the box.

Not exactly. It was, fortunately, inoperable: the firing pin had been removed and someone had even taken the time to scratch off the serial numbers.

Considerate.

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Fox News. Always there when you need fair, balanced, occasionally head-scratching, off the wall and some might even say borderline offensive reporting.

It's hard coming up with the best of the best, given the sheer volume of eye-popping material, but here are nine of the wildest things said on the network in 2012:

Fox News 2012 Highlights

Just FYI, for those who don't normally watch the channel:

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Stooping lower than we realized people were capable of, Nouel Alba was arrested for running a scam tied to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting this month.

The New York City woman tried to fleece donors by posing as the aunt of a child killed in the elementary school, federal authorities said Thursday.

Alba, 37, is accused of using her Facebook account, telephone calls and text messages to seek donations for what she called a Newtown "funeral fund."

She even went so far as to tell one donor she had to enter the scene of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to identify her nephew.

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The first "alien Earth" planet is likely to be spotted next year, according to astronomers.

An epic discovery that would cause humanity to reassess its place in the universe, the feat is believed to be possible, even likely, by scientists in 2013.

Researchers have honed in on a number of exoplanets in recent years that share key traits with our own world, such as size or inferred surface temperature.

They have yet to bag a bona fide "alien Earth." But just wait, scientists say.

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Jiroemon Kimura is the world's oldest man ... ever. He was born in 1897!

The 115-year-old recently became the oldest living human after the death of Dina Manfredini. Now he's also officially the oldest man who has ever lived.

Jiroemon Kimura, World's Oldest Man Ever

The former postal employee has 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren. He lives with his son's family near Kyoto, Japan.

The previous holder of the title of oldest man ever was Christian Mortensen, a Danish-American, who lived 115 years and 252 days before dying in 1998.

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A Tunisian man has passed away after taking the actions of Rocky Balboa a fatal step too far.

News reports confirm that Dhaou Fatnassi, a 20-year old from the town of Kairouan, downed these items in order to win an undisclosed amount of money from a friend.

From there, he suffered stomach pains and was transported to a hospital and announced dead on arrival.

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Bernie Madoff is not surprised. Or impressed.

In a Christmas Eve letter from the medium security federal prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence, Madoff tells CNBC that insider trading has been around "forever."

He also rails against what he calls a lack of transparency in the financial markets, and says the growth of hedge funds is forcing market players to take outsized risks.

You know, in case you wanted his opinion.

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