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Tiger attacks intruder in zoo
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A man suffered injuries to his arms after he and a friend hopped the fence at a Canadian zoo early on Monday and stuck his hands into the tiger exhibit, zoo officials said.
October 7, 2009, 5:08 am -
Racing fans "limited" to 24 beers a day
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Adult fans at one of Australia's most popular motor sport races, the Bathurst 1000, will be limited to one "slab" of beer a day -- or 24 375 ml cans -- as police focus on reducing alcohol-related crime.
October 7, 2009, 5:07 am -
School asks pupils to bring own toilet roll
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish parents struggling to buy schoolbooks and uniforms in the face of a deep recession may now have to worry about sending their children to school with a toilet roll as well as a packed lunch.
October 7, 2009, 5:07 am -
British dockyard among 93 at risk sites
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Merritt Parkway in Connecticut joins a monastery in Bhutan, a church in Chile and a British dockyard among 93 "irreplaceable" sites at risk from vandalism, neglect, conflict or disaster, the World Monuments Fund said on Tuesday.
October 7, 2009, 3:04 am -
Britain's new healthy eating guru - Homer Simpson
LONDON (Reuters) - Forget all the pizza and doughnuts -- the British government wants fans of "The Simpsons" to ditch junk food and eat more healthily.
October 6, 2009, 3:13 am -
In parkour, the city is the gym
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Zen saying goes: the obstacle is the path.
October 6, 2009, 3:12 am -
Air India says mid-air scuffle no threat to safety
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A mid-air scuffle between pilots and crew of an Air India flight at the weekend did not endanger the 106 passengers on board, said a spokesman for the airline which has ordered an inquiry.
October 6, 2009, 3:01 am -
Whale skeleton vs cow brain at Turner art prize
Opponents of the award, who call themselves "Stuckists," stood outside the Tate Britain gallery on London's River Thames where the award is staged and called on Monday for the "tired" and "exhausted" show to be scrapped.
October 6, 2009, 12:29 am -
The Trial: Judge tackles Kafka archive nightmare
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - An Israeli court has stepped into a battle over a legacy that may include lost manuscripts of the great 20th century writer Franz Kafka, ordering an elderly heiress to open up a secret hoard of papers, Israel's Haaretz newspaper said Friday.
October 2, 2009, 10:20 pm -
Cuba launches 'no free lunch' trial
HAVANA (Reuters) - There may soon be no such thing as a free lunch, even in Cuba where the communist-run government began an experiment on Thursday to close state-run lunchrooms and give workers money to buy their own meals.
October 2, 2009, 10:18 am -
Gas mask in a bra leads IgNobel awards
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Engineers who invented a brassiere that converts quickly into a gas mask, pathologists who determined that beer bottles can crack your skull even when empty and Irish police officers who mistakenly wrote tickets to "Driver's Licence" all won spoof "IgNobel" prizes on Thursday.
October 2, 2009, 9:36 am -
North American pro sports leagues in a twitter over tweeting
TORONTO (Reuters) - North America's professional sports leagues are all a twitter over tweeting and have pushed through guidelines to ban player access to social networking sites during games.
October 2, 2009, 7:25 am -
Tiff over Gaddafi tent on Trump land ends
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The company that set up a huge tent for visiting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will plead guilty to zoning violations in the town of Bedford, New York, and pay a $1,000 fine, the town attorney said on Thursday.
October 2, 2009, 7:08 am -
Schwarzenegger asked to close prostitute Website
LONDON (Reuters) - A British government minister asked California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday to shut down a U.S. website that allows men to rate prostitutes, including many working in London.
October 2, 2009, 3:58 am -
UK's High Court orders writ to be served via Twitter
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter Thursday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone.
October 2, 2009, 3:56 am -
High Court orders writ to be served via Twitter
LONDON (Reuters) - The High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter on Thursday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone.
October 2, 2009, 1:37 am -
Snail rush defies downturn for Bulgarians
PLEVEN, Bulgaria (Reuters) - On a quiet patch of land apparently devoid of inhabitants, Krasimir Kostov's farm is silently booming as more than one million snails, hiding from the sun under planks of wood, munch their way to market.
October 2, 2009, 12:52 am -
London mayor appears in EastEnders
LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Boris Johnson makes a brief appearance on Thursday in "EastEnders" and gets a broadside from feisty pub landlady Peggy Mitchell who is angry about public services.
October 1, 2009, 10:21 pm -
Britain asks Schwarzenegger to close prostitute website
LONDON (Reuters) - A government minister asked California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Wednesday to shut down a U.S. website that allows men to rate prostitutes, including many working in London.
October 1, 2009, 5:43 am -
Miss Singapore World resigns after lingerie fraud
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Beauty queen Miss Singapore World has given up her crown after it emerged that she had stolen credit cards to go on a shopping spree for lingerie.
October 1, 2009, 5:37 am
