Inmates showcase designs at prison show
Reuters - Friday May 16, 12:25 AM
MILAN (Reuters) - The models are strutting past and the celebrities are carefully eyeing the collections, but it's not at every fashion show that you see prison guards by the catwalk.

Wedding day fireworks land groom in jail
Reuters - Friday May 16, 12:23 AM
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Bridegroom Kedir Mohamed wanted his wedding day to go with a bang and decided to celebrate by letting off firecrackers after the ceremony.

"No, after you - I'm just here to rob the place!"
Reuters - Friday May 16, 12:23 AM
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man politely waited his turn in a queue at a busy central Sydney post office before jumping over the counter, grabbing money from two tills and running off, police said on Thursday.

Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ
Reuters - Friday May 16, 12:22 AM
HUSAVIK, Iceland (Reuters) - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis.

Green aliens, UFOs said to visit
Reuters - Thursday May 15, 03:54 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public.

"Snake man" slithers out of prison cell
Reuters - Thursday May 15, 12:34 AM
VIENNA (Reuters) - A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday.

Watchdog raps Skins over "orgy" poster
Reuters - Thursday May 15, 12:32 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - The advertising watchdog has banned a poster for a teenage TV drama series that featured a dishevelled, semi-naked young woman sitting on a bed, surrounded by couples apparently taking part in an orgy.

Solar bra brings conservation closer to the heart
Reuters - Thursday May 15, 12:31 AM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod.

Von Trapp's "Sound of Music" villa to become hotel
Reuters - Thursday May 15, 12:28 AM
SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - "The Sound of Music," one of Hollywood's greatest money-spinners, will scale new heights when the original von Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as a hotel in July.

"Snake man" slithers out of Austrian prison cell
Reuters - Wednesday May 14, 11:28 PM
VIENNA (Reuters) - A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday.

Canadian zoo investigates puzzling stingray deaths
Reuters - Wednesday May 14, 08:31 PM
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Officials at the Calgary Zoo remained baffled on Tuesday as they tried to puzzle out just why 34 of their stingrays suddenly died.

Shrimp can see beyond the rainbow
Reuters - Wednesday May 14, 08:30 PM
LONDON (Reuters) - A giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef can see a world beyond the rainbow that is invisible to other animals, scientists said on Wednesday.