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Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU

10 hours 45 sec ago
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo

10 hours 12 min ago
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying

10 hours 15 min ago
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle

10 hours 16 min ago
WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.

Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse

15 hours 38 min ago
NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.

Ex-president's body stolen for ransom, Cyprus says

Tue, 2010-03-09 18:06
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus said Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave Monday three months after it disappeared from its tomb.

Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy

Tue, 2010-03-09 17:54
BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants

Tue, 2010-03-09 17:50
LUANDA (Reuters) - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.

Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem

Mon, 2010-03-08 18:28
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.

U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries

Mon, 2010-03-08 18:24
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.

Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament

Mon, 2010-03-08 18:24
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.

Aussie underwear has gone bananas

Fri, 2010-03-05 19:11
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.

Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza

Fri, 2010-03-05 19:09
GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.

Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit

Thu, 2010-03-04 17:19
BEIJING (Reuters) - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.

Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport

Thu, 2010-03-04 15:53
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.

London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey

Thu, 2010-03-04 15:52
LONDON (Reuters) - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.

Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem

Thu, 2010-03-04 15:51
OTTAWA (Reuters) - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.

Child's play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry

Wed, 2010-03-03 21:42
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.

"Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars

Wed, 2010-03-03 19:07
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.

Army nixes raid after Facebook leak?

Wed, 2010-03-03 18:04
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported Wednesday.