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Nurses union Care does not include sex (12 March 03:13) |
| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard c... |
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The price you pay for being romantic (12 March 02:53) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman, fearful that a burglar was trying to break into her second storey apartment, called police after she heard someone climbing up to her balcony shortly after... |
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Old sea dog sets tongues wagging at Crufts (11 March 11:48) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A 16th century dog, the only known female to have served aboard King Henry VIII's ill-fated flagship the Mary Rose, has stolen the show at Britain's Crufts dog show ... |
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Japans spouse hunters hone skills at marriage school (11 March 11:47) |
| TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims to turn them into marriage material.
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No wine from burglar boyfriend for light sleeper (11 March 11:47) |
| BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A German woman, fearful that a burglar was trying to break into her second storey apartment, called police after she heard someone climbing up to her balcony shortly... |
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Canada Parliament eats seal to defy ignorant EU (11 March 01:16) |
| 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 product... |
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Dead baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (11 March 01:04) |
| 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.
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Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (11 March 01:02) |
| 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.... |
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New Zealander auctions ghosts in a bottle (11 March 01:01) |
| 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 onli... |
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Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leaders corpse (10 March 07:39) |
| 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 thr... |
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Ex-presidents body stolen for ransom Cyprus says (09 March 11:36) |
| 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 dis... |
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Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (09 March 11:24) |
| 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... |
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Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants (09 March 11:20) |
| 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 neigh... |
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Cyprus police find stolen corpse of ex-president (09 March 11:17) |
| NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot police said Tuesday they had discovered the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos, three months after it was snatched from its grave in a crime that shoc... |
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Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (08 March 11:58) |
| 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 nat... |
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US blacks Hispanics losing more sleep over worries (08 March 11:54) |
| 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.
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Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament (08 March 11:54) |
| 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.
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Aussie underwear has gone bananas (06 March 12:41) |
| SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.
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Hamas bans men from womens hair salons in Gaza (06 March 12:39) |
| 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.
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Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit (04 March 10:49) |
| 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 hea... |
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Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport (04 March 09:23) |
| 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 Turke... |
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London stage fright rats mice and fleas survey (04 March 09:22) |
| 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 sur... |
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Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem (04 March 09:21) |
| 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.
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Hurt Locker producers sued days before Oscars (03 March 11:29) |
| 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 f... |
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Childs play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry (03 March 10:26) |
| 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 Intern... |
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Army nixes raid after Facebook leak (03 March 10:26) |
| 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, Isr... |
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Mute Chicago film critic Ebert voices Oscar picks (02 March 11:05) |
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Film critic Roger Ebert, rendered mute by several cancer surgeries, delivered his Oscar picks on Oprah Winfrey's television chat show on Tuesday using his newly synthesiz... |
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Marriages last longer than living together (02 March 11:05) |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Tuesday.
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Police catch man snorting drugs on their car (02 March 11:04) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - German police detained a nightclub reveler they caught trying to snort amphetamines off the top of their unmarked patrol car.
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Panda found eating like a pig (01 March 09:45) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer's pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo.
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Getting naked for art at the Sydney Opera House (01 March 09:41) |
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Some 5,200 Australians posed naked in front of the Sydney Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by New York-based artist Spencer Tunick for another signature installatio... |
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Tanks a lot (01 March 09:38) |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country's Ural mountains, footage published Saturday by websites showed.
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Baby born in traffic jam as leader drives by (26 February 11:30) |
| QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari's motorcade dri... |
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Man must pay for injury caused in suicide bid (26 February 09:55) |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a... |
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Man caught robbing same bank twice in 24 hours (26 February 09:54) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - A German robber held up the same bank in Hamburg twice within 24 hours just a week after being released from jail -- for the same crime.
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Boozy chimp sent to rehab (26 February 09:53) |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performe... |
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Tax officials caught over unpaid fines (25 February 09:43) |
| SOFIA (Reuters) - There were some embarrassed faces at Bulgaria's tax office on Thursday after an investigation found more than 400 tax inspectors had failed to pay their traffic fines.
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Mall partly evacuated after aquarium leak (25 February 09:42) |
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai Mall, one of the world's largest shopping centres and a symbol of Dubai's grandeur, was partly closed on Thursday after an aquarium containing thousands of fish and s... |
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Tribes show best camels at beauty pageant (25 February 09:41) |
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Ten golden-colored camels adorned with sparkling ornaments line up for the finale of a beauty contest in one of the UAE's northern emirates, awaiting the selection of two p... |
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A cruise to remember (25 February 12:07) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Violence, drunkenness and all manner of debauchery featured on a six-month voyage on a migrant ship bound for Australia 170 years ago, a newly discovered diary reveals.
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Protestant head quits after drunk driving (24 February 11:57) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Germany's 25 million Protestants resigned on Wednesday after police stopped her for driving while under the influence of alcohol just four months after becomin... |
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Women only airline to have female toilets (24 February 11:56) |
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Women flying Japan's All Nippon Airways will have a toilet all to themselves from next month, with the airline designating one restroom on most international routes as fema... |
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Watch this movie and win $10000 (23 February 08:58) |
| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Bollywood filmmaker has issued a lucrative challenge to horror movie fans: a $10,000 reward for anyone who can watch his latest supernatural thriller, alone, in a cin... |
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Protestant leader regrets driving drunk (23 February 08:57) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's 25 million Protestants was stopped for running a red light while driving under the influence of alcohol, the Hanover state prosecutors office said ... |
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Her Facebook status changed to single Ur dumped (23 February 08:56) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Digital dumping is on the rise, according to a survey, with growing numbers of people preferring to use email and social networking Web sites to break up with their partne... |
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New travel agency offers the bear necessities (23 February 12:48) |
| PRAGUE (Reuters) - A newly formed Czech travel agency is offering escorted trips for pampered toys.
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Adrenaline addicts seek designer thrills (23 February 12:47) |
| PARIS (Reuters) - Thrill-seekers in France tired of the usual array of white-knuckle sports are turning to a bizarre new service to get their adrenaline rush -- designer abduction.
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Who let the dogs pig out (23 February 12:46) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Someone once said that if your dog is fat you're not getting enough exercise.
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Gnome poster removed before Medvedev visit (19 February 10:52) |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Theater posters proclaiming "We await you, merry gnome" were taken down from a Russian town shortly before a visit by the country's diminutive President Dmitry Medvedev, a... |
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Cat food latest weapon against Australias cane toads (19 February 10:51) |
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - A tin of cat food may be the solution to reducing the number of toxic cane toads in Australia, one of the country's major pests which environmentalists have tried for year... |
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