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An inventive American, annoyed by the regular disappearance of the meals he brought from home, has come up with something to fight refrigerator theft: A see-through plastic bag with dark green spots that make it look like mould has started to grow on the contents. Now no-one steals Sherwood Forlee's lunch.

 The anti-theft lunch bags are being sold at an internet website (thinkofthe.com). The price is 10 dollars for a pack of 25.

Harrods selling gold bars

   London (dpa) - The luxury London department store Harrods has all kinds of gold items for sale, but now, for the first time, it is offering actual gold bars.

 With the price of gold currently at record levels, the store hopes the offer will appeal to super-rich private investors. It has in stock gold bars provided by the Swiss firm Produits Artistiques Metaux Precieux worth more than 370,000 dollars.

 Customers of Harrods will have to dig deep into their pockets to afford a piece of gold. The price of a fine ounce (31.1 grams) of gold has climbed steadily in the last few years and now is around 1,070 dollars.

 Among the gold bar sizes for sale is one weighing 12.5 kilograms.

New fashion "taste" in London

   London (dpa) - This is a fashion taste few would argue with: The Berkeley, a London luxury hotel, is offering sweets in the shape of designer boots and clothing to go with the current fall and winter collection.

 Guests can enjoy truffles with white chocolate and coconut, for example, in the shape of a handbag by the English luxury brand Mulberry or they can bite into a piece of chocolate in the shape of a model wearing a dress by designer Emanuel Ungaro. At about 59 dollars, the sweets are reasonably priced for "tasteful" fashion.

High per centage of Italian women would choose chocolate over sex

   Rome (dpa) - This can't be good news for Latin lovers: A recent survey of Italian women shows that 60 per cent consider chocolate the surest source of desire.

 One in four women questioned in the survey said given the choice between a delicious bar of chocolate and sex they would always take the chocolate, according to the survey by the society for gynaecology and midwifery.

 Disappointed lovers can take some consolation in an additional finding of the survey: After eating chocolate, the desire for sex among the Italian women surveyed rose by 50 per cent.//dpa