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  • Diplomats arrested for cigarette smuggling

    Reuters - Saturday, November 21

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.

  • Ageing Santa gets $100,000 facelift for Christmas

    Reuters - Saturday, November 21

    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.

  • Gang accused of killing to sell human fat

    Reuters - Saturday, November 21

    LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

  • New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles

    Reuters - Friday, November 20

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world

  • U.S. election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments

    Reuters - Friday, November 20

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.

  • Marikina ‘methane kitchen’ shut down

    GMANews.TV - Friday, November 20

    The so-called Kalan ng Bayan or Methane Kitchen in Nangka village in Marikina City was closed down on Thursday due to health and safety reasons.

  • Lost man drives nine hours to get newspaper

    Reuters - Thursday, November 19

    CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian highway, police said on Wednesday.

  • Lawmaker apologizes for insulting rival on Twitter

    Reuters - Thursday, November 19

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian member of Parliament learned the hard way on Tuesday that insulting a rival legislator by Twitter is not a good idea, especially if you're sitting around the same table at the time.

  • 'Captain America' wins rock-paper-scissors title

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    TAYLOR, Mich. - A Michigan man has won the world Rock Paper Scissors championship in Toronto.

  • Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes?

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    By Rina Chandran

  • What's in a name? More than you might think

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    LONDON (Reuters) - A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.

  • Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes, expert says

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    By Rina Chandran

  • What's in an unusual name? More than you might think

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in Italian.

  • Robber behind "perfect crime" surrenders

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 17

    PARIS (Reuters) - The driver of a security van who vanished earlier this month with more than 11 million euros ($16.5 million) in cash has surrendered to police in Monaco, French authorities said on Monday.

  • Women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 17

    ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.

  • Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 17

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

  • Obama in a grass skirt? Hawaii to host APEC 2011

    Reuters - Sunday, November 15

    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama invited fellow leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to a summit in Hawaii in 2011, but may have alarmed them with the dress code.

  • Cow dung to power more Dutch homes

    Reuters - Saturday, November 14

    AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands Friday.

  • Venezuela destroys 30,000 guns

    Reuters - Friday, November 13

    CARACAS (Reuters) - Battling with one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuela on Wednesday crushed more than 30,000 guns seized from the streets during police raids this year.

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