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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. More »

  • 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.

  • Lawmaker who expensed fine wine, car, jailed

    Reuters - Friday, November 13

    LONDON (Reuters) - A former far-right British member of the European Parliament who cheated on his expense money to buy fine wine and a car was jailed on Wednesday for two years.

  • Weird and wacky world records tumble around globe

    Reuters - Friday, November 13

    LONDON (Reuters) - Manjit Singh, a 59-year-old security consultant from Leicester, England known as the "Ironman," on Thursday pulled a double-decker bus weighing more than eight metric tons over a distance of 21.2 meters with his hair.

  • And the ugliest people are...

    Reuters - Thursday, November 12

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a dating website that says it only allows "beautiful people" to join.

  • Looking for a bargain? Madoff's homes get price cut

    Reuters - Thursday, November 12

    By Jonathan Stempel

  • The anti-swine flu holy water dispenser

    Reuters - Thursday, November 12

    ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.

  • Bounce back in style at divorce fair

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 11

    By Vicky Buffery

  • Brazilian student Geysi Villa Nova Arruda attends a media conference in Sao Bernardo do Campo, November 9, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

    Mini-dress student readmitted to university

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 11

    SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A female Brazilian student who was expelled from a Sao Paulo university after her short dress sparked student protests has been allowed back after federal prosecutors opened an investigation into the case.

  • Online auction site launches for rich and famous

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 10

    By Burton Frierson

  • Man provides photo for his own wanted poster

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 10

    LONDON (Reuters) - A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.

  • Man makes living by selling the shirt on his back

    Reuters - Saturday, November 7

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.

  • Driver suspected in Bank of France van heist

    Reuters - Saturday, November 7

    LYON, France (Reuters) - French police are looking for the driver of a security van suspected of driving off with more than 10 million euros ($14.85 million) after the man vanished, apparently after first clearing out his flat.

  • Miss England gives up crown over brawl reports

    Reuters - Saturday, November 7

    LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.

  • Health worker fired for hockey flu shots

    Reuters - Friday, November 6

    CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Senior health officials in the Canadian province of Alberta said on Wednesday they had fired an unidentified worker for giving National Hockey League players preferential access to the H1N1 flu vaccine.

  • Wife's free handbag a "symbol of derision"

    Reuters - Friday, November 6

    LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA vice-president Jack Warner is returning a handbag given to his wife by England's 2018 World Cup bid because he says it has become "a symbol of derision, betrayal and embarrassment."

  • Giant snake capture was a hoax?

    Reuters - Friday, November 6

    MIAMI (Reuters) - A man who caught a 14-foot (4.2-meter) python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the capture.

  • "Give pees a chance" student may face jail

    Reuters - Thursday, November 5

    LONDON (Reuters) - A university student who was photographed urinating over a war memorial was warned on Wednesday that he could be jailed for the "disgusting act."

  • Cheap mobile calls help more young couples elope

    Reuters - Thursday, November 5

    By Abdi Sheikh

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