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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.
  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...
  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...
  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...
  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.
  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...
  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 ...
  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 ...
  "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,...
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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...
  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...
  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.
  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.
  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...
  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.
  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...
  "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.
  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...
  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. ...
  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 ...
  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...
  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...
  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...
  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...
  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?
  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.
  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. ...
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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...
  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.
  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...
  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.
  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.
  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...
  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...
  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...
  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 ...
  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...
  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...
  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.
  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...
  "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, ...
  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.
  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.
  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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