Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Odd

College student snares record long Burmese python near Miami

By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python set a record for the longest snake ever captured in South Florida, where the exotic species has taken up...
May 22, 2013, 7:04 am
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Relegation woes worry toothless Argentinos Juniors

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentinos Juniors, staring into the jaws of relegation, have had a set of false teeth thrown at their coach by an angry fan while the club's president has quit his seat at th...
May 22, 2013, 10:13 am
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Czech police seize 1 million litres of illegal booze

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech police found a million litres of illegal alcohol hidden in underground tanks in one of the biggest seizures of untaxed booze ever.
Police have been chasing a wi...
May 22, 2013, 2:17 am
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Chinese businessman pays record price for Belgian racing pigeon

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman has paid a world record 310,000 euros ($398,500) for a Belgian pigeon, highlighting Asia's huge and growing interest in racing birds.
The one-...
May 21, 2013, 9:34 pm
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What's in a name? U.S. starts using Myanmar as well as Burma

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma received further backing from the White House on Monday in its campaign to be called Myanmar.
Successive U.S. g...
May 21, 2013, 9:35 am
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A gnome grows in Chelsea - at the flower show, that is

By Paul Casciato
LONDON (Reuters) - Some spectators at London's Chelsea Flower Show wouldn't be caught dead with one in the trunk of their Bentley, but garden gnomes have turned up at t...
May 21, 2013, 7:26 am

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Marijuana waste helps turn pot-eating pigs into tasty pork roast

By Jonathan Kaminsky
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - With Washington state about to embark on a first-of-its-kind legal market for recreational marijuana, the budding ranks of new canna...
May 21, 2013, 4:46 am

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Man climbs onto dome of St Peter's to protest Italian politics

ROME (Reuters) - A man climbed onto a ledge on the dome of St Peter's Basilica on Monday and unfurled a banner protesting against a "political horror show", an apparent reference to Italy's embattled ...
May 21, 2013, 3:50 am
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Gandhi blood sample up for auction in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Two microscope slides bearing the blood of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi are to go on sale in London on Tuesday and are expected to fetch from 10,000 pounds to 15,000 pounds (...
May 21, 2013, 1:10 am
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Prague metro plans to launch love train for singles

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Rail passengers searching for love in the Czech capital need look no further than the daily commute as the city makes plans to designate carriages on its underground trains for sing...
May 21, 2013, 12:45 am
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Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any...
May 19, 2013, 11:23 pm

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EU finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil

By Charlie Dunmore
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on h...
May 19, 2013, 1:20 am

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Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball lottery sold in Florida

By Brendan O'Brien
(Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was n...
May 18, 2013, 9:43 am

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Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight

By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-mon...
May 18, 2013, 1:59 am

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Dancer says showgirls dressed as Obama, nuns at Berlusconi party

By Sara Rossi
MILAN (Reuters) - The nightclub dancer at the center of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" sex trial told a court on Friday that guests at the...
May 18, 2013, 1:47 am

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Artists confess to mayoral street art tribute

Days after her death a portrait has surfaced on a bridge, depicting the long-serving Port Augusta mayor Joy Baluch.
ABC - May 17, 2013, 2:57 pm

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Idaho man sentenced to seven years for killing zoo monkey

By Laura Zuckerman
(Reuters) - An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records sh...
May 17, 2013, 10:40 am

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Los Angeles ranked worst U.S. city for dog attacks on mail carriers

By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles has earned the dubious distinction for the second year in a row as the U.S. city with the most dog attacks on mail carriers, the U.S....
May 17, 2013, 10:23 am

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From "bunga bunga" to "pianists" - Italy's political slang

By Naomi O'Leary
ROME (Reuters) - An encyclopedia of Italian political slang has shone a light on a colorful and Byzantine world where lawmakers and journalists speak a language you won...
May 17, 2013, 1:44 am

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Family pet digs up stick of dynamite

A family dog has dug up what appears to be a stick of dynamite in the backyard of their property, at Haven, near Horsham in western Victoria.
ABC - May 16, 2013, 1:15 pm
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