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Some coffee fans get grim delight in Starbucks woes (08 July 02:10) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - One coffee drinker's bad news is another coffee drinker's good news, it seems.
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Police nab two cannabis growers in cemetery (08 July 01:36) |
| HANOI (Reuters) - Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capit... |
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Thirteen hurt on first day of Spanish bull run (07 July 11:04) |
| PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) - Thirteen people were taken to hospital, one of them seriously injured, on the first day of the annual bull running festival in the northern Spanish town of Pamplo... |
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It pays to go in a public toilet (07 July 11:01) |
| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It pays to use a toilet in southern India, as residents are earning close to a dollar a month by using public urinals, a scheme launched by authorities to promote hygie... |
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Man rips head from Hitler wax figure (07 July 07:27) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said.
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Big cheese carving celebrates Independence Day (04 July 01:53) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sculpture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence made from a one-tonne block of cheddar cheese glistened on the sidewalk of Times Square in New York on Thur... |
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You want cheese curds with that? (04 July 01:45) |
| OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's U.S. embassy apologized on Thursday for a party invitation that featured a prominent figure in Canadian history brandishing a large plate of French fries covered ... |
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No skimpy outfits on bar staff (04 July 01:33) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - China's government has told discos, karaoke bars and other entertainment venues to install windows in private rooms and ensure staff dress modestly from Oct 1 as part of ... |
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"Spiritual" effects of mushrooms last a year? (02 July 10:00) |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "spiritual" effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions,... |
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Truck crash stirs up 12 million angry bees (02 July 02:36) |
| OTTAWA (Reuters) - How do you deal with millions of upset bees? Very carefully.
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Man auctions off his life, sale price disappoints (30 June 10:48) |
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man who put his life up for auction on eBay found it wasn't worth quite as much as he thought when he settled for around A$100,000 less than his target price.
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Police suspect giraffe in circus breakout (30 June 10:44) |
| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Fifteen camels, two zebras and several llamas and pot-bellied pigs escaped from a circus visiting Amsterdam early Monday, police said.
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Drunken Swede tries to row home from Denmark (30 June 10:38) |
| COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A drunken 78-year-old Swede stole a dinghy after a night out in the Danish town of Helsingor and tried to row back to Sweden, but fell asleep halfway, Danish police sa... |
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Controversial tiger photos faked (30 June 10:31) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - China has fired a number of government officials and arrested a man in connection with a set of fake photographs that local authorities had said was proof of the existenc... |
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Manure thief falls into dung, flees naked (27 June 10:44) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said Friday.
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Union anger at "Dickensian" toilet policy (27 June 07:53) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - A meat company has been branded Dickensian after forcing its employees to clock-off every time they want to go to the toilet.
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California to drivers: Drop the cell phone, dude (27 June 07:52) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets and dot-com millionaires to surfers and soccer moms... |
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Titanic life jacket sells for $68,500 (26 June 09:27) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.
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Corrupt officials betrayed by pillow talk (26 June 09:26) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Anti-graft authorities in a southern Chinese city are questioning mistresses of suspected corrupt officials and finding the information is paying off prettily, state medi... |
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"Brothel bus" makes last stop in Miami Beach (26 June 09:25) |
| MIAMI (Reuters) - A "brothel bus" that detectives said cruised Miami Beach offering lap dances and drinks has taken its last ride, police said on Wednesday.
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Honk once for "I do" (26 June 09:24) |
| STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Church of Sweden will carry out drive-in weddings lasting about seven minutes at a car rally next month in a bid to make marriage more accessible, it said on Thursd... |
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Pilots in India often fail alcohol tests (26 June 03:54) |
| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Around 50 pilots each year in India are being grounded because they had consumed alcohol before taking a flight, the country's civil aviation authorities said Tuesday.
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Mayor fuming over cigar case probe (25 June 09:55) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - London's flamboyant mayor Boris Johnson is fuming after police took possession of a cigar case he removed from the looted home of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq ... |
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Drugs, phones wing their way to prisoners (25 June 09:54) |
| RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials -- until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay air... |
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Fighting crows halt trains (16 June 09:46) |
| PATNA, India (Reuters) - Train services were disrupted in parts of eastern India for three hours after flocks of agitated crows snapped overhead powerlines when railway workers tried to clea... |
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Leader of body parts ring apologizes in court (13 June 10:50) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey dentist behind a scheme to steal body parts from corpses, including that of British journalist Alistair Cooke, faced relatives of the dead in court on Thurs... |
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Armpit sniffer gets jail and cane (13 June 09:15) |
| SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man with a penchant for sniffing women's armpits was sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for molesting his victims, a local newspaper r... |
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Manners still matter when you're poking on Facebook (13 June 09:09) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Should you reject a friend on MySpace? How do you ward off an old lover on Facebook?
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Pluto gets a new name: plutoid (13 June 12:23) |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pluto, demoted from planet status in 2006, got a consolation prize on Wednesday -- it and other dwarf planets like it will be called plutoids.
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Friday 13th not more unlucky, study shows (12 June 11:52) |
| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Unlucky for some? Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.
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Manhole memo prompts Mumbai municipal mutterings (12 June 11:29) |
| MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mumbai city officials are upset by an American warning about the risks of falling into manholes in India's commercial capital during the monsoon season.
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Jail break foiled by air vent (12 June 09:51) |
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - A woman who attempted to escape from jail in Sydney had to be rescued by police after she became stuck in an air conditioning duct, police said on Thursday.
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Drivers turn to blow-up dolls to beat traffic rules (12 June 09:32) |
| WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Drivers in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland are turning to inflatable passengers to try and beat transit lane rules.
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Sudoku addicts halt drugs trial (11 June 11:02) |
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian drugs trial lasting more than three months and costing taxpayers over A$1 million ($947,000) has been aborted after a number of jurors were found to have spe... |
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They had sex WHERE? (11 June 08:31) |
| ROME (Reuters) - An Italian couple who were caught having sex in a church confessional box while morning Mass was being said have repented and made peace with the local bishop.
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Lawyer sues Delta for ruining family vacation (29 May 08:53) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lawyer is suing Delta Air Lines for $1 million, saying his family vacation turned into a nightmare after they were stranded in an airport for days and treated... |
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Israel names biblically banned Hoopoe national bird (29 May 08:52) |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It may not be kosher, but the Hoopoe was chosen Thursday as Israel's national bird.
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Space station incommoded by broken toilet (29 May 08:50) |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the NASA space shuttle Discovery will be carrying an extra piece of cargo when they launch on Saturday -- a new toilet pump.
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Smugglers busted over zip wire border racket (29 May 08:49) |
| HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sixteen members of a smuggling gang in China and Hong Kong have been arrested for rigging a 300-metre long cable to send contraband goods across the heavily-policed bor... |
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And the gold medal for Olympic scams goes to... (29 May 08:48) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Tricksters are setting up fake Olympic ticket websites, selling Olympic bonds that do not exist and running fraudulent Olympic-linked competitions, state media said Thurs... |
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Vietnam reports "UFO" explosion (29 May 03:15) |
| HANOI (Reuters) - An unidentified flying object exploded in mid-air over a southern Vietnamese island, state media said Wednesday, a day after Cambodia's air force retracted a report of a my... |
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Baby put up for sale on Craigslist? (28 May 08:47) |
| VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A couple has been arrested in what Canadian police said on Tuesday was an apparent offer to sell a seven-day-old baby girl on Craigslist for C$10,000 ... |
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Twin, separated at birth, sues for mix-up (28 May 08:45) |
| MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish twin, separated from her family for 28 years, is suing the Canary Islands for a mix-up at the maternity hospital which led to her being taken home by the wrong m... |
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Heartbroken man climbs into morgue freezer (27 May 11:46) |
| TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwan man grieving over the death of his girlfriend climbed inside a morgue freezer to be with her and was only pulled out alive half an hour later, media and an offici... |
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Boy, they REALLY make tourists feel welcome here! (27 May 08:55) |
| TOKYO (Reuters) - One of the travelers who arrived at Tokyo's Narita airport over the weekend may have picked up an unusual souvenir from customs -- a package of cannabis.
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Warning issued over unlicensed sex drugs (24 May 03:56) |
| OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians should avoid unlicensed drugs that claim to improve sexual performance because they could cause problems such as loss of consciousness, prolonged erections and c... |
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"Indiana Jones" cracks whip at box office opening (24 May 03:54) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paramount Pictures appears to have another hit on its hands, as the new "Indiana Jones" movie grossed $25 million from its first full day in North American theaters, ... |
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Car thief held after stand-off with boars (24 May 03:47) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - German police pursuing a car thief through a dark forest turned rescuers when the man became cornered by a family of angry wild boar.
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Mystery deepens as 4th severed foot found (24 May 01:04) |
| VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Another severed human foot has been discovered washed ashore on Canada's Pacific coast, but police are no closer to solving the gruesome mystery.
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Singapore bans two porn websites in symbolic move (23 May 08:40) |
| SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Singapore has banned access to two pornographic websites in a "symbolic statement" of the country's societal values, its media regulator said on Friday.
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