Skateboarding priest becomes YouTube hit
(Reuters)
2010-08-16 09:35:18
Reuters - A Hungarian Roman Catholic priest has become a YouTube hit with his distinctive method of spreading the word on wheels.
Aboriginal elder leads police to body -- but wrong one
(Reuters)
2010-08-13 12:13:49
Reuters - An Aboriginal elder who claimed to have seen the location of a missing child in a dream has led Australian police to a body -- but it was not the corpse of a child but of an adult woman.
Officials ordered to quit club following outcry
(Reuters)
2010-08-13 12:10:32
Reuters - More than 30 Chinese government officials have been ordered to relinquish their membership of a luxurious golf club in the wealthy eastern city of Wenzhou after a torrent of online criticism, state media reported on Friday.
Top food was olives in time of the ancient mariner
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2010-08-12 13:56:47
Reuters - A huge quantity of olive stones on an ancient shipwreck more than 2,000 years old has provided valuable insight into the diet of sailors in the ancient world, researchers in Cyprus said Thursday.
Traffickers hide cocaine under rare python
(Reuters)
2010-08-11 12:02:08
Reuters - Italian police seized a rare albino python in Rome Wednesday in a raid on a group of drug traffickers who used the snake to guard cocaine and intimidate customers who owed them money.
UK bans offensive Anti-Terrorist Hotline radio ads
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2010-08-11 12:01:23
Reuters - Britain's advertising watchdog said on Wednesday it had banned a police advertisement encouraging people to report neighbors whose activities raised 'suspicions,' saying it could offend innocent citizens.
Martin Luther has Wittenberg in a stir 500 years on
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2010-08-11 12:00:05
Reuters - About 800 colorful statuettes of 16th-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther are popping up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first railed against some practices of the Roman Catholic church almost 500 years ago.
Leader in hot water over bread scandal
(Reuters)
2010-08-10 12:44:57
Reuters - German president Christian Wulff's preference for bread and baked goods made in distant Hanover has got the country's newly elected head of state into hot water.
Advice to job seekers: drop the Merlot
(Reuters)
2010-08-10 12:41:44
Reuters - Job applicants who drink alcohol are perceived as less intelligent and less hireable by American bosses, a bias dubbed the 'imbibing idiot bias' in a study published on Monday.
French criminals now face short arm of the law
(Reuters)
2010-08-10 12:37:05
Reuters - France has ended restrictions barring people under 1.6 meters (5 ft 3 in) from joining the police force.
Attractive women overlooked for certain jobs?
(Reuters)
2010-08-09 12:01:50
Reuters - Too hot to be an engineer or prison guard?
Airlines grounds overweight staff: paper
(Reuters)
2010-08-09 12:01:08
Reuters - Turkish Airlines has grounded 28 flight attendants for being overweight and given them six months to slim down or face reassignment, a newspaper said on Saturday.
Man dies in final of sauna championships
(Reuters)
2010-08-09 12:00:30
Reuters - A Russian man died in the finals of the world sauna championships in Finland after spending some six minutes sweltering in temperatures of 110 degrees Celsius (230.00F), organizers said Sunday.
Woman faked cancer for cash, Disney trip?
(Reuters)
2010-08-09 12:00:05
Reuters - A woman in the Toronto area has admitted to faking cancer, running a bogus charity and collecting thousands of dollars from people who thought she was dying, a Toronto newspaper reported.
U.S. charges dropped against Japanese speed-eater
(Reuters)
2010-08-05 13:28:48
Reuters - A Japanese competitive eater won't have to try jail food after all, a judge ruled on Thursday, dismissing charges against the skinny speed-feeder for crashing a hot dog eating contest.
Ancient sex guide published as audio book
(Reuters)
2010-08-05 13:27:46
Reuters - Too shy to read the Kama Sutra on the train during rush hour? Just take out your headphones.
Women find men in red more appealing?
(Reuters)
2010-08-05 13:27:20
Reuters - Men wanting to catch the eye of women should dress in red, a color which new research shows makes them more alluring to the opposite sex.
Dog chews off Michigan man's toe, saves his life
(Reuters)
2010-08-04 16:47:23
Reuters - A Michigan man credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his diseased big toe as he lay passed out in a drunken stupor.
Miss Australia urged to dump her woolly Ugg boots
(Reuters)
2010-08-04 09:58:58
Reuters - A pair of high-heeled woolly Ugg boots to be worn by Australia's representative at the Miss Universe Pageant later this month has come under fire on two fronts -- tackiness and animal cruelty.
Malaysian state OKs underage marriage for mothers
(Reuters)
2010-08-04 09:57:06
Reuters - A Malaysian state is to allow Muslim girls under the age of consent of 16 years to wed in a bid to stem unwed pregnancies, angering the country's women's activists and politicians.